By Jill Nolin | Editor
Several races are going to a June runoff, and you can thank Georgia law for that. When no candidate walks away with 50% of the vote in Georgia, the top two candidates go head to head for another round of voting. We have a rundown today on the races that remain unsettled, including one where a candidate has 49.88% of the vote.
Voters line up outside Shiloh Hills Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia on Election Day, May 19, 2026. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder
2026 ELECTION
By Maya Homan
Tuesday’s election has come and gone, but the race isn’t over yet for many candidates seeking statewide office.
Under Georgia law, candidates must secure a majority of votes, not just a plurality, in order to be elected. And while a number of candidates claimed decisive victories this week, many others failed to clear the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff.
U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter speaks to the Golden Isles Republican Women’s Club on St. Simons Island on May 12, 2025. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA
2026 ELECTION
By Craig Nelson, The Current GA
Ever since Buddy Carter announced his run for the U.S. Senate last year, he has insisted that he is the Georgia Republican who could beat the Democratic incumbent, Jon Ossoff, in November.
On Monday, the Coastal Georgia congressman repeated the manta at Savannah’s charter airline terminal on the last day of campaigning before Tuesday’s primary election, “You have to put your best player on the field, the one who gives you the best chance to win.”
He won’t get that chance.
Private equity firms own nearly 3 million apartment units, about 13% of the total apartments across the country, according to a new analysis. (Photo by Robbie Sequeira/Stateline)
HOUSING
By Robbie Sequeira
Private equity firms own nearly 3 million apartment units, about 13% of the total apartments across the country, according to a new analysis from watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project.
And most have been fairly recent purchases. The companies acquired more than 1.7 million of those, or 57%, since 2018, and about 45% of them since 2021, the report found.
More than two-thirds of those units are located in just 10 states: Texas, Florida, California, Georgia, North Carolina, Colorado, New York, Arizona, Virginia and Washington.
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe, left, talks with U.S. Vice President JD Vance after he arrived at Kansas City International Airport, May 18, 2026 in Kansas City, Missouri. Vance on his visit pitched voters on keeping Republicans in control of Congress. (Photo by Eric Lee-Pool/Getty Images)
2026 ELECTION
By Jonathan Shorman and Jacob Fischler
When Vice President JD Vance pitched voters on electing Republicans to Congress this November during a trip to a Kansas City manufacturing plant on Monday, he delivered the message while standing in a newly gerrymandered U.S. House district.
“If you want congressional leadership that fights to lower your taxes, that fights to put more money in your pockets and fights to protect your jobs, the only game in town is Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans,” Vance said.
But the Trump brand is hurting — placing Republicans’ miniscule U.S. House majority at high risk, despite a GOP rush to redistricting in Southern states this spring following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision and earlier gerrymandering.
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