Laura covers the nation's capital as a senior reporter for States Newsroom, a network of nonprofit outlets that includes Georgia Recorder. Her areas of coverage include politics and policy, lobbying, elections, and campaign finance.
Democrats gained at least one seat against Republicans in the U.S. Senate, but ended up early Wednesday with an increasingly challenging path to wresting control of the chamber away from Republicans.
In Georgia, Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler is headed to a runoff with Democrat Raphael Warnock in early January. Votes were still being tallied Wednesday morning in the contest between Sen. David Perdue and Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff.