The tight January political calendar means Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue won’t be in office when Congress meets for a joint session on the Electoral College on January 6, regardless of the results of the <a href=”https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/politics/georgia-early-voting-numbers/index.html” target=”_blank”>Senate runoff</a> the day before.

Sydney Butler, chief of staff to the secretary