{"id":436,"date":"2020-11-01T17:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T17:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/?p=436"},"modified":"2020-11-02T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T23:07:09","slug":"georgia-senate-race-loeffler-vs-collins-vs-warnock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/2020\/11\/01\/georgia-senate-race-loeffler-vs-collins-vs-warnock\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Senate Race (Loeffler vs Collins vs Warnock)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Alex Villarin (VI)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loeffler (R) Collins (R) Warnock (D)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Special election because Johnny Isakson (R), announcing on August 28, 2019, that he would resign from the Senate at the end of 2019 due to health <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Kelly_Loeffler\">reasons<\/a><\/li><li>Almost certainly will be a runoff between Warnock (D) and Loeffler \u00ae<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2020-election-forecast\/senate\/georgia-special\/\ufeff\">https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2020-election-forecast\/senate\/georgia-special\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kelly Loeffler<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Incumbent, was appointed to be the Junior Senator following Isakson\u2019s retirement by Gov. Kemp in January 2020<\/li><li>Co-owner of a WNBA team and one of the wealthiest members of Congress<\/li><li>Entered Congress as a moderate but has gradually become one of the President\u2019s staunchest supporters<\/li><li>Heavily in favor of deregulation especially in the Agricultural industry, Anti-abortion, Pro-border wall, Self proclaimed deficit hawk<\/li><li>Trump right<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doug Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Representative of Georgia\u2019s 9th District since 2013, previously served in the Georgia State House, trained as a Pastor and lawyer<\/li><li>Has evenly split endorsements with Loeffler but falls behind in campaign finances<\/li><li>Selected to defend President Trump during impeachment proceedings<\/li><li>Anti-abortion, in favor of defunding Planned Parenthood<\/li><li>Pro-2A, Pro-police, and military funding<\/li><li>Small government proponent<\/li><li>Religious right<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Raphael Warnock<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>No political experience apart from serving as Reverend of Martin Luther King\u2019s former church since 2005<\/li><li>Endorsed by every major Democratic association and Politician (there are other Democrats running but they are not polling very high)<\/li><li>Anti-Wall St, in favor of expanding the Affordable Care Act<\/li><li>A strong proponent of Voting Rights, expanding the accessibility of voting to more people<\/li><li>Pro-choice and expanding education regarding contraceptives and LGBTQ+ Ally<\/li><li>In favor of expanding social welfare programs including public housing in which he grew up<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alex Villarin (VI) Loeffler (R) Collins (R) Warnock (D) Special election because Johnny Isakson (R), announcing on August 28, 2019, that he would resign from the Senate at the end of 2019 due to health reasons Almost certainly will be a runoff between Warnock (D) and Loeffler \u00ae https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2020-election-forecast\/senate\/georgia-special\/ Kelly Loeffler Incumbent, was appointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Loeffler (R) Collins (R) Warnock (D)<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li>Special election because Johnny Isakson (R), announcing on August 28, 2019, that he would resign from the Senate at the end of 2019 due to health <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Kelly_Loeffler\">reasons<\/a><\/li><li>Almost certainly will be a runoff between Warnock (D) and Loeffler \u00ae<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2020-election-forecast\/senate\/georgia-special\/\ufeff\">https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2020-election-forecast\/senate\/georgia-special\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Kelly Loeffler<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li>Incumbent, was appointed to be the Junior Senator following Isakson\u2019s retirement by Gov. Kemp in January 2020<\/li><li>Co-owner of a WNBA team and one of the wealthiest members of Congress<\/li><li>Entered Congress as a moderate but has gradually become one of the President\u2019s staunchest supporters<\/li><li>Heavily in favor of deregulation especially in the Agricultural industry, Anti-abortion, Pro-border wall, Self proclaimed deficit hawk<\/li><li>Trump right<\/li><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Doug Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li>Representative of Georgia\u2019s 9th District since 2013, previously served in the Georgia State House, trained as a Pastor and lawyer<\/li><li>Has evenly split endorsements with Loeffler but falls behind in campaign finances<\/li><li>Selected to defend President Trump during impeachment proceedings<\/li><li>Anti-abortion, in favor of defunding Planned Parenthood<\/li><li>Pro-2A, Pro-police, and military funding<\/li><li>Small government proponent<\/li><li>Religious right<\/li><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Raphael Warnock<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li>No political experience apart from serving as Reverend of Martin Luther King\u2019s former church since 2005<\/li><li>Endorsed by every major Democratic association and Politician (there are other Democrats running but they are not polling very high)<\/li><li>Anti-Wall St, in favor of expanding the Affordable Care Act<\/li><li>A strong proponent of Voting Rights, expanding the accessibility of voting to more people<\/li><li>Pro-choice and expanding education regarding contraceptives and LGBTQ+ Ally<\/li><li>In favor of expanding social welfare programs including public housing in which he grew up<\/li><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-http-students-pingry-org-vitalsigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}