GEORGIA ON MY MIND – AT 11:25 A.M. ET:  Tomorrow's runoffs in Georgia will be the most important off-year elections in modern American history.  They will decide who controls the United States Senate. 

Both President Trump and President-elect Biden will be in Georgia today.  All eyes are on Trump.  If he comes on blazing, and limits himself to passionate advocacy on behalf of the Republican candidates, he could pull them across the finish line.  But if he comes in and talks mostly about himself and his electoral problems, he can do more harm than good.  Ironically, his own legacy might well be affected by how he performs today.

Georgia has also become a testing ground for potential 2024 Republican presidential candidates.  Most active is Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.  He ran for president before, and he clearly wants to try it again.  Here is his message to Georgia, published today by Fox: 

In just one day, the fate of the Senate -- and the nation -- will be decided by Georgia voters. While the ballots and votes cast will determine if Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue deserve to be re-elected -- and it’s undeniably clear that they do -- the Georgia runoff elections have far greater implications.

In the first two years of President Barack Obama’s first term, we watched as a unified Congress controlled by Democrats rammed through ObamaCare and other liberal pieces of legislation, confirmed radical nominees to critical executive branch positions and promulgated progressive regulations that harmed our economy and our workers. 

Republicans in Congress were powerless to stop this liberal assault on our values and institutions. 
It wasn’t until the 2010 elections — when I first ran for Senate — when Americans overwhelmingly rejected Obama’s agenda and took back control of the House that Republicans in Congress could prevent further damage.

If Democratic Senate candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are elected on January 5th, the Democrats’ impending socialist assault on our nation will make President Obama’s first two years in office look moderate by comparison.

COMMENT:  Read the rest.  It's a good statement of conservative principles.  The GOP is blessed with a very deep bench, and with a new contingent of women in the House of Representatives.  The question is how much fight we have. 

January 4, 2021