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Biden Promises ‘New Day,’ Trump Heads To Georgia on Eve of Pivotal Senate Runoffs

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January 4, 2021
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Biden Promises ‘New Day,’ Trump Heads To Georgia on Eve of Pivotal Senate Runoffs

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden elbow bumps Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Georgia Jon Ossoff as he campaigns on behalf of Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, ahead of their January 5 run-off elections, during a drive-in campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., January 4, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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President-elect Joe Biden urged Georgia voters on Monday to send two Democrats to Washington in Tuesday runoffs that will decide control of the U.S. Senate, while President Donald Trump prepared his own pitch to keep the chamber in Republican hands.

The Georgia races pit a pair of incumbent Republicans, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, against Democratic challengers Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, respectively.

“It’s a new year, and tomorrow can be a new day for Atlanta, for Georgia and for America,” Biden said at his event in the state’s capital city, while criticizing the outgoing president.

He said the Trump administration had “gotten off to a god-awful start” with the slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines. “The president spends more time whining and complaining than doing something about the problem,” he said.

He said the Democratic candidates, if elected, would ensure that $2,000 stimulus checks were delivered to Americans as the economy struggles during the coronavirus pandemic.

Long a solidly Republican state, Georgia surprised the nation in November by backing a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in almost three decades. That has raised liberals’ hopes for Warnock and Ossoff, although they face an uphill battle and need twin victories to deny Republicans a Senate majority they could use to block Biden’s legislative agenda.

Later on Monday, Trump is due to address a rally in Dalton, a city in Georgia’s heavily Republican northwest.

The dueling appearances by Biden and Trump in the Southern state on Monday illustrated the high stakes of the contest, in which 3 million have already voted.

A sweep by the two Democrats would hand control to Biden’s party, as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would hold the tiebreaking vote in the 50-50 chamber. That would make it easier for Biden to enact further coronavirus relief and tackle climate change, as Democrats also control the House of Representatives.

None of the Senate candidates won a majority in the Nov. 3 election, which spurred the runoff elections.

‘VOTE NEGATIVE’

Trump continues to assert, without evidence, that his loss in November was the result of widespread voter fraud – a claim that reviews by state and federal election officials, multiple courts and the U.S. Department of Justice have rejected.

In a call on Saturday to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Trump pressured the Republican official to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat, and suggested Raffensperger’s failure to alter the November results could hurt Republican turnout in the Senate runoffs.

“There’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you’ve recalculated,” Trump said, according to an audio recording of the call released by the Washington Post. Raffensperger refused his request.

Democrats and election experts say Trump’s efforts almost certainly broke the law. Biden, who won Georgia by almost 12,000 votes, did not mention the call directly in his remarks on Monday.

Loeffler said on Monday night she would object to the certification of the election results in Congress on Wednesday, joining about a dozen other Republican senators and over 100 Republican House members. The move has virtually no chance of overturning Biden’s victory.

It is not clear whether Trump’s actions and his repeated claims of election fraud will affect the outcome of the Senate races. Strategists from both parties say the outcome could likely hinge on how many Republican voters participate on Tuesday, given strong Democratic early voting turnout.

“If we get our vote out on Election Day, then I think Perdue and Loeffler both have a very strong chance of winning,” Cobb County Republican Party Chairman Jason Shepherd told Reuters.

Trump warned Raffensperger on Saturday that Republican voters might be disheartened if Biden’s victory was allowed to stand.

“Because of what you’ve done to the president, a lot of people aren’t going to vote, and a lot of people are going to vote negative,” he said on the call. He previously called for both Raffensperger and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, also a Republican, to resign for not backing his election fraud allegations.

The Senate campaigns have obliterated spending records and spurred unprecedented turnout, as political groups have flooded the state with a tsunami of advertising.

(Reporting by Jarrett Renshaw in Atlanta and Andy Sullivan in Washington; Additional reporting by Nathan Layne and Michael Martina; Writing by Andy Sullivan and Jeff Mason; Editing by Michael Perry and Peter Cooney)

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