{"id":247393,"date":"2020-12-17T09:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/live-updates-georgias-senate-runoffs-draw-more-than-700k-early-votes-so-far.html"},"modified":"2020-12-17T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:20:21","slug":"live-updates-georgias-senate-runoffs-draw-more-than-700k-early-votes-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/live-updates-georgias-senate-runoffs-draw-more-than-700k-early-votes-so-far.html","title":{"rendered":"LIVE UPDATES: Georgia&#8217;s Senate runoffs draw more than 700K early votes so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/a39b9_image.jpg\" alt=\"President-elect Biden stumps for Democrats in Georgia Senate runoffs\" \/><span class=\"overlay\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">President-elect Biden stumps for Democrats in Georgia Senate runoffs<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy joins &#8216;Special Report&#8217; with the latest from Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Georgians<\/a>\u00a0have early-voted in unusually high numbers this\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">runoff season<\/a>, with nearly 356,000 casting their ballots in the first two days of\u00a0in-person voting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Through Tuesday, 715,048 Georgians\u00a0voted ahead of the state&#8217;s two U.S. Senate runoffs, set for\u00a0Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s 12%\u00a0lower than at this point in the general election. Two days into early voting in the general election, 816,242 had voted, according to\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">data<\/a>\u00a0from the Georgia secretary of state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"summary\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">FAST FACTS<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<p>With nearly three weeks left until Election Day, voter turnout was already 38% of the total turnout in the last Senate runoff in 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Follow below for more updates on the Georgia Senate runoffs. Mobile users click\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/ggFutYivllw\/live-updates-georgia-senate-12-17-2020<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video President-elect Biden stumps for Democrats in Georgia Senate runoffs Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy joins &#8216;Special Report&#8217; with the latest from Atlanta. Georgians\u00a0have early-voted in unusually high numbers this\u00a0runoff season, with nearly 356,000 casting their ballots in the first two days of\u00a0in-person voting.\u00a0 Through Tuesday, 715,048 Georgians\u00a0voted ahead of the state&#8217;s two U.S. Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-247393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}