{"id":1764594,"date":"2022-12-06T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764594"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:32:59","slug":"3-reasons-the-senate-runoff-in-georgia-is-crucial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-reasons-the-senate-runoff-in-georgia-is-crucial\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons The Senate Runoff In Georgia Is Crucial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F3-reasons-the-senate-runoff-in-georgia-is-crucial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764594&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>We\u2019re finally here: At long last, we\u2019re about to be done with the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Senate was mostly settled within a few days of the November 8 election, with Democrats retaining control of the chamber. But neither candidate in the Georgia race won a majority of the vote, forcing a runoff between incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.<\/p>\n<p>While it doesn\u2019t seem like it matters much \u2014 Democrats could control the chamber 51-49 instead of 50-50 if Warnock wins \u2014 there\u2019s still a lot at stake in the single remaining race. And it\u2019s all about power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMITTEE POWER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much will change with the control of this last Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>For the first two years of President Joe Biden\u2019s term, Republicans and Democrats have been split 50-50 (which makes Vice President Kamala Harris the tie-breaking vote).<\/p>\n<p>That makeup, though, means that all the committees are required to have an equal number of members from each party. In a straight party-line vote, any measure will tie \u2014 and therefore die.<\/p>\n<p>All that changes at 51-49.<\/p>\n<p>If Warnock wins his runoff, Democrats would then be entitled to more committee seats, plus a larger share of the budget. Democratic committee chairmen won\u2019t have to bother with that pesky bipartisan stuff, they can just jam everything down Republicans\u2019 throats.<\/p>\n<p>The larger share of power brings several advantages. A Democratic majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee would make it far easier for them to confirm judicial nominees selected by Biden.\u00a0Democratic committee chairmen would also be able to issue subpoenas compelling witnesses to testify and produce documents without a single Republican vote.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates have been pushing control of committees as a key in the runoff, with Walker recently telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-republicans\/2022\/12\/02\/id\/1098861\/\">Newsmax<\/a>, \u201cRight now, we\u2019ve got a chance to make all the committees even.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANCHIN\/SINEMA POWER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Things have been weird with Democrats having just 50 votes in the Senate. A dynamic quickly emerged after the new Congress opened, with Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona \u2014 both moderates \u2014 having outsized power.<\/p>\n<p>Both happily exploited their positions, much to the distress of Biden. Manchin was instrumental in forcing Biden to dramatically reduce his proposed $3.5 trillion social spending bill, which eventually became the more modest Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).<\/p>\n<p>Back in July, Manchin said it was \u201cnot prudent\u201d for Democrats to approve a major spending package while Americans faced soaring costs for food, fuel, and rent. \u201cInflation is wreaking havoc on everybody\u2019s life,\u201d Manchin said in a radio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tPR8mXfcoSM\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sinema also obstructed Biden\u2019s massive spending plan, eventually winning concessions on taxation, including some exemptions to a corporate minimum tax. Liberals were so miffed that Vanity Fair penned a piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/09\/kyrsten-sinema-holding-bidens-agenda\">headlined<\/a> (in all caps), \u201cKYRSTEN SINEMA IS WINNING FANS ON THE RIGHT BY HOLDING UP BIDEN\u2019S AGENDA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden has been frustrated with the pair. In campaign speeches and at fundraisers, Biden would often tell fellow Democrats, \u201cwe need two more senators\u201d to move forward on his agenda. While a 51-49 Senate won\u2019t altogether neuter Manchin and Sinema, they will most definitely lose some of their leverage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRUMP POWER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump did not fare well in the 2022 midterm elections. A slew of the candidates he endorsed lost, including Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, who got beat by a guy who can barely utter a coherent sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans openly derided Trump after the dismal showing of GOP candidates who failed to take back the Senate and barely grabbed control of the House. A <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/3743701-trump-may-not-make-it-to-the-primaries\/\">YouGov<\/a> poll after the election showed Republicans who want him to run collapsed from 60% to just 47% (if you\u2019re keeping score at home, that number doesn\u2019t make you president).<\/p>\n<p>Exit polls also found that a hefty chunk of voters came out just to vote against Trump\u2019s candidates, and his presence was enough to throw some close races to the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>A Walker win could ease a bit of that embarrassment \u2014 or inflame it. Trump last year encouraged Walker to jump into the race, but as the candidate has stumbled, Trump has kept his distance.<\/p>\n<p>In one last desperate effort, Trump made one final pitch \u2014 but not in person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump plans to hold a rally via telephone for Herschel Walker ahead of Georgia\u2019s US Senate run-off on Tuesday, opting not to campaign in-person and potentially draw more blame for hurting the GOP\u2019s midterm election efforts,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-holding-tele-rally-for-herschel-walker-ahead-of-georgia-runoff\/ar-AA14Ve9A\">Bloomberg<\/a> wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re finally here: At long last, we\u2019re about to be done with the 2022 midterm elections. The U.S. Senate was mostly settled within a few days of the November 8 election, with Democrats retaining control of the chamber. But neither candidate in the Georgia race won a majority of the vote, forcing a runoff between &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1729581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}