With how tumultuous the presidential election was, with accusations of fraud and a multitude of lawsuits, the senate elections flew under the radar for many. However those paying close attention knew that the results of the senate elections were almost, if not just as important as the Presidential one. Mitch McConnel has been the senate majority leader since republicans gained control of the senate previously, and since then has blocked just about everything the House Democrats have voted in, meaning it wouldn’t even be voted on by the Senate. If the Democrats would gain control of the senate, they could actually get legislation through, without the senate. Biden may have had trouble getting anything passed at all. For this to happen, 50 of the 100 senators would have to be democrats or independents who vote with democrats like Bernie Sanders. The Vice President breaks the tie, so with Kamala Harris as Vice President, she would make the 51st vote.

The fate of the Senate seemed to lie in large part with Georgia, as both spots were up for election with Republican incumbents in the state which has been becoming more and more blue lately. It was John Ossof running against incumbent republican David Perdue, and Reverend Raphael Warnock, a pastor at the church Martin Luther King once preached at, running against Kelly Loeffler, the billionaire republican incumbent who had been given the position by governor and had been the richest person in the Senate, making much of her money from insider trading relating to the pandemic. With all this said, the elections were both extremely close, within half of a percent in fact, with the republicans slightly in the lead. 

This meant that runoff elections would take place in early January. For the senate to be won by the Democrats, both Warnock and Ossoff would have to win, and this seemed very unlikely. However as time went on, numbers started skewing more and more towards the Democrats. It seems that with Donald Trump losing, Republican voters had started to become disillusioned with the Republican party, and even disavow voting for the party unless they “stood up for him” and supported him in an attempted coup. This has lead to reports of a party split, and the creation of the “Patriot Party” seems to support this, a far right populist party that is Trump aligned, although with an ironic title, as a socialist party existed in the US with the same name some decades ago. With all this into account, it seemed that the Democrats were more invigorated then ever, while Republicans discouraged, making for an unexpected victory of both Warnock and Ossoff, and a Democratic supermajority in Washington for at least the next two years.