Stacey Abrams is my Patronus: Why we can take the Senate in Georgia
By: Sergio Prado
Tags: Democratic Party, Politics, Senate, Democracy, Georgia

The Georgia Runoff Election —the key to Democratic control of the Senate — will make a enormous impact on this country’s future. Let’s break it down:

Senate control lets us dig out of the hole Trump has thrown us into

Without the senate, we may not pass a single piece of legislation. Mitch “I Use My Spongey Fingertips to Caress Photos of Merrick Garland” McConnell will do everything in his power to stop Biden from doing anything; to ensure Biden can’t get re-elected in 2024 — just like he did with President Obama. We probably wouldn’t pass a new voting rights act, a climate change bill, maybe not even another Covid bill to stop the economy from collapsing and thousands of Americans from dying. Biden will get 0 federal judges, and the supreme court will keep its conservative majority.

But flipping the Senate to the Democrats puts all of that in play. Americans will be equipped to survive the pandemic, will actually be able to vote, and will be able to put the brakes on climate change. An empowered Biden administration could improve Americans’ lives in material and significant ways, repair the cracks in the country that Trump revealed to us, and start the United States on an genuinely exciting path of revitalized democratic participation and economic progress.

We need your help.

Georgia is going to be close. Turnout might be low, so every single vote is going to make an even bigger difference than in the general election. There’s a ton you can do to help Reverend Warnock and Jon Ossoff:

Phonebank. Phone calls are a critical way to motivate voters and make sure everyone has a plan to vote. The voter registration deadline is December 7th, so early phone calls can make a big difference. Donate. It sucks that so much money has to be involved in our elections, but the campaigns need money right now to spin up their get out the vote efforts. They are already making decisions based on how much money they have on hand early on, so if you’re going to donate, do it now.

And here’s why that help is likely to work:

We literally just won Georgia. tl;dr on my last article: Previous “rules” of special election turnout don’t really apply these days. Dems are motivated and pissed that 2020 wasn’t as good as they hoped, and Republicans put all their eggs in the “sad failed wannabe despot” basket. Stacey Abrams. Loeffler/Perdue may be short on money: Republican small-dollar donations that might have gone to Loeffler/Perdue are getting siphoned into fairly sad “save Donald Trump” fundraisers; nearly all of that money is just going to pay off Trump’s debts, because this kind of thing Keeps. On. Happening. Come on guys. Dems are focused: The entire Biden organization is turning its sights on Georgia, while the entire Trump “organization” is focused on making Trump feel better about being a sad petulant child. Stacey Abrams. Republican scandals abound: Both David Purdue and Kelly Loeffler used insider information on the coronavirus to buy and sell stocks worth over $20 million in March, all while they were lying to the American public about the severity of the virus. The General Election was c l o s e: Ossoff trailed Purdue by 1.8%, and in the Warnock/Loeffler race the total Democrat votes trailed the total Republican votes by only 1%. Stacey Abrams.

We can win this race. Phonebank and Donate right now. Let’s do this.