GA-SEN 2020 Class II Megathread (Perdue inc.)

[Storr]

This is so cringe. These people are OBSESSED.

https://twitter.com/NRSC/status/1105142337511006208

This is so bad it's hilarious. Who is honestly paid to come up with these things?

At least the fact they put this out means NRSC is worried about facing her, no matter how bad that...clip song thing was.

[Storr]

Tomlinson will be a solid candidate. It may help with a significant number of rural voters that's she's Mayor of Columbus and not from the 'big city' Atlanta. You could run any generic D in Georgia and get 47%...the problem is the runoff (by which I mean avoiding it).

[Storr]

Terry probably have sh-t fundraising in Q4.

Ossoff is probably going to win the primary outright. Tomlinson just isn't delivering.

I think Warnock is going to carry the Senate ticket anyway so I don't care who it is at this point.

Thats a shame, I think the ATL/outstate combo would have played well.

Yeah, Warnock looks really strong for the other seat, but I still can't imagine Ossoff accomplishing much of anything outside of Atlanta in the GE.   

Hopefully someone strong like Warnock comes out of the woodwork for this race. All of these current candidates are underwhelming.

[Storr]

Terry probably have sh-t fundraising in Q4.

Ossoff is probably going to win the primary outright. Tomlinson just isn't delivering.

I think Warnock is going to carry the Senate ticket anyway so I don't care who it is at this point.

Thats a shame, I think the ATL/outstate combo would have played well.

Yeah, Warnock looks really strong for the other seat, but I still can't imagine Ossoff accomplishing much of anything outside of Atlanta in the GE.   

Hopefully someone strong like Warnock comes out of the woodwork for this race. All of these current candidates are underwhelming.

Tomlinson seemed promising in the same way the 2018 Trump district House candidates were promising.  Why is her campaign flopping so hard?

I'll preface this with the fact that I don't know all that much about Georgia politics. But, I have seen a few comments (mostly on atlas, so take that with a grain of salt) that blame her so far lackluster campaign on Tomlinson's lack of connections with Democrats in the Atlanta area (the stronghold of the state's Democratic party, and thus where most of the donors are).

[Storr]

We still have more votes to go, but this is highly interesting - Dems outvoting Reps in both GA-06 and GA-07 (especially 7th)

GA-06
Dems 42,428
Reps 36,118

GA-07
Dems 50,342
Reps 34,812

Good sign for Democrats obviously, especially with a non-competitive primary in GA-06.

[Storr]

NYTimes has Ossoff at 50.01% now.

Politico has him at 50.0.

Jon Ossoff             420,723    50.0%

Teresa Tomlinson   128,558   15.3%

Sarah Riggs Amico   107,370   12.8%

It also has 89% (all other metro Atlanta counties were 98% or greater) of precincts reporting in DeKalb, which can only be good for Ossoff since he's currently up 54.7% to 15.2% there.

[Storr]

I can hear my parents listening to Rachel Maddow's show downstairs and I just heard the infamous George Allen clip from 2006. So, this is at least gaining traction in mainstream liberal media.

My two cents on the whole thing: Purdue obviously intentionally mispronounced and mocked Kamala's name. There's at least some racial component to mocking Harris' name because you wouldn't be hearing Republicans intentionally mispronounce her name if it was a "normal white" name like Jane or Karen. After all, you don't hear Republicans mispronouncing "Joe".
Politically, this is different from Allen's incident since mispronouncing and mocking someone's name isn't as blatantly racist as calling someone a slur. Purdue can at least make a cohesive and believable argument that he simply mispronounced "Kamala", but there's no easy PR-friendly excuse after calling someone an ethnic/racial slur.