{"id":67041,"date":"2021-01-05T23:56:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T04:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=67041"},"modified":"2021-01-06T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T13:27:04","slug":"breaking-as-gop-pulls-ahead-in-georgia-senate-races-democrat-county-stops-counting-votes-for-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-as-gop-pulls-ahead-in-georgia-senate-races-democrat-county-stops-counting-votes-for-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: As GOP Pulls Ahead in Georgia Senate Races, Democrat County Stops Counting Votes for the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fbreaking-as-gop-pulls-ahead-in-georgia-senate-races-democrat-county-stops-counting-votes-for-the-night%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=67041&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>A Democrat-leaning Georgia county called it quits for the night with thousands of vote yet to be counted as the two Republican U.S. Senate candidates held on to slim leads after being behind the Democrats most of the evening after polls closed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As of 11 p.m. EST with about 91 percent of the votes counted, Sen. Kelly Loeffler was ahead of Rev. Raphael Warnock 51.1 to 48.9 percent and Sen. David Perdue was ahead of Jon Ossoff 51.5 to 48.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUPDATE: just confirmed. Chatham County is done counting votes for the night. The board of elections annex building is empty. Workers say they\u2019ll be back at 8 a.m. Still thousands of votes to be counted here. @WJCLNews\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UPDATE: just confirmed. Chatham County is done counting votes for the night.<\/p>\n<p>The board of elections annex building is empty. Workers say they\u2019ll be back at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Still thousands of votes to be counted here. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WJCLNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WJCLNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Moody WJCL (@StephenWJCL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenWJCL\/status\/1346661879612059648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn Democratic-leaning Chatham, the vote-counting appears on hiatus for the night \u2026 still thousands of outstanding ballots remaining to be tallied there.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In Democratic-leaning Chatham, the vote-counting appears on hiatus for the night \u2026 still thousands of outstanding ballots remaining to be tallied there. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gapol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gapol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gasen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gasen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HHVNo4WRM1\">https:\/\/t.co\/HHVNo4WRM1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bluestein\/status\/1346668273060995074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like conspiracy theory gasoline\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s nearing midnight and the Georgia Senate Rs are still clinging to a narrow lead, but troves of votes are outstanding in populous Democratic strongholds like Chatham &amp; DeKalb. One Republican activist tells me it&#8217;s the &#8220;perfect storm for Donald Trump.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gapol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gapol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gasen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gasen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B592aamk8p\">pic.twitter.com\/B592aamk8p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bluestein\/status\/1346670114939301889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michelle Malkin reports Chatham County was a recipient of over $500,000 in Zuckerbucks last September for help with public elections, \u201cSo Chatham County GA election officials have stopped counting votes until 8am tomorrow! You should know that Zuckerberg\/@helloctcl gave Chatham County GA officials a half-million dollar private Big Tech grant in September to run public elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So Chatham County GA election officials have stopped counting votes until 8am tomorrow! You should know that Zuckerberg\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HelloCTCL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@helloctcl<\/a> gave Chatham County GA officials a half-million dollar private Big Tech grant in September to run public elections.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wAMa5zxebq\">https:\/\/t.co\/wAMa5zxebq<\/a><br \/>\n\/5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PzjHhbUqTp\">pic.twitter.com\/PzjHhbUqTp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michellemalkin\/status\/1346670918127349760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>President Trump observed right as news broke of Chatham County shutting down, \u201cLooks like they are setting up a big \u201cvoter dump\u201d against the Republican candidates. Waiting to see how many votes they need?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Looks like they are setting up a big \u201cvoter dump\u201d against the Republican candidates. Waiting to see how many votes they need?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1346659909492998146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UPDATEL Gabriel Sterling weighs in Chatham. Earlier he had told of a massive 171,000 vote dump to come in Democrat DeKalb County, \u201cChatham County didn\u2019t just stop. They completed the counting of everything they have in. That includes Election Day, Advanced, &amp; all of the absentees they had in. The last left will be the absentee by mail that came in today.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chatham County didn\u2019t just stop. They completed the counting of everything they have in. That includes Election Day, Advanced, &amp; all of the absentees they had in. The last left will be the absentee by mail that came in today. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gapol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gapol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabrielSterling\/status\/1346673156501680128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There is a large group of votes from DeKalb Co., the early in person votes that should be uploaded soon. That will be 171k+. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gapol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gapol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabrielSterling\/status\/1346660118079950848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let me restate\u2026DeKalb has 171k+ advanced votes to upload. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HYLZbj03pV\">https:\/\/t.co\/HYLZbj03pV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabrielSterling\/status\/1346665050770190336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2021\/01\/breaking-gop-pulls-ahead-georgia-senate-races-democrat-county-stops-counting-votes-night\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Breaking: As GOP Pulls Ahead in Georgia Senate Races, Democrat County Stops Counting Votes for the Night<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Democrat-leaning Georgia county called it quits for the night with thousands of vote yet to be counted as the two Republican U.S. Senate candidates held on to slim leads &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67041","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}