2026 Senate Elections (Pear's Future Elections)

The 2026 United States Senate election took place during President Joe Biden's second term. However on June 24th, 2026, Biden announced his resignation due to health issues, causing Vice President Kamala Harris to be sworn in as President on June 25th, 2024. Harris had low approval ratings throughout her term, and as a result, Republicans picked up 2 seats, defeating incumbents Tina Smith and Gary Peter, as well as holding on all their seats. Republican Majority leader Mitch McConnel retired from the Senate. In January, Republicans nominated John Kennedy from Louisiana to be their new majority leader.

Georgia
Incumbent Senator Jon Ossoff ran for re-election to a second term. Former United States Representative Jody Hice defeated former United States Senator David Purdue in the Republican runoff to challenge Ossoff. Throughout the campaign, Hice aligned himself with unpopular President Donald Trump and Georgia's other United States Senator, Hershel Walker, who was also deeply unpopular in the state. As such, On election day, Hice narrowly lead over Ossoff and the two went into a runoff. Ossoff defeated Hice in the runoff narrowly, holding back a Republican wave in the Senate that year.

Democratic Primary
Like with most incumbents, incumbent Senator Jon Ossoff was not expected to have a hard time being re-nominated by his party in the primary. Ossoff had one main challenger for the nomination: George Douglas, a rising party leader and member of the State House. Douglas warned the Democratic party of the blue wave and campaigned as the moderate candidate who could survive the wave. Polls in early January showed Ossoff lead against Douglas 39-31, causing the two to enter a runoff election. However, lackluster fundraising and a poor debate performance allowed Ossoff to take the upper hand, and in the may primary, Ossoff easily won re-nomination. Nominee Eliminated
 * Jon Osssoff, incumbent Senator since 2019
 * Carl Grey, State Representative
 * George Douglas, State Representative
 * Hugh Tatem, bartender

Republican Primary
The top Republican candidates were former United States Representative Jody Hice, educator Kandiss Taylor, former United States Senator David Purdue and State Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper. Both Hice, Taylor and Purdue ran on the endorsement of President Donald Trump, however Trump formally announced Taylor. Harper ran with the endorsement of Governor Brian Kemp and former Vice President Mike Pence. The May primary, Hice and Harper narrowly qualified for the runoff, where Hice won a very narrow majority of the vote.