On the season finale of "Real Time" with Bill Maher on HBO, the host examined the January runoffs for both U.S. Senate seats in Georgia.
In a special election, Sen. Kelly Loelffer (R-GA) is being challenged by the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
In the other race, Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) is being challenged by Jon Ossoff, the Democratic nominee who was once a staffer for civil rights icon John Lewis.
Maher said, "Georgia seems to be the proxy war for all the marbles."
Maher explained how the 2020 election results are 50-48 in favor of Republicans, but if Democrats win both races, it would be a 50-50 tie in the Senate -- with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote.
Panel guest Alex Wagner, the co-host of "The Circus" on HBO, argued that it would be difficult for Democrats to win as moderates may prefer divided government.
But historian Jon Meacham had a hopeful note for Democrats.
"You know, I just think, you know, once to every man in a nation comes a moment to decide. And this is an existential moment in American democratic -- lowercase 'd' -- history," he explained.
"And we have one more shot at this -- the voters of Georgia have one more shot to get this right," Meacham said.
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