President-elect Joe Biden will campaign in Georgia the day before the January 5 run-off to the Senate on January 5, the same day that President Trump will hold a rally for the Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will also visit Peach State on January 3, while she and Biden defend the candidates’ Democratic opponents, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
The details are still unclear as to when the Biden rally will take place, but it can present a remarkable split screen of the current president and the president-elect campaigning simultaneously in the same state during a period that is generally quite quiet in the political world.
“It really does look like we are at the center of the political universe and will be there until January 5,” Atlanta Press Club Chairwoman Deborah Committee chairwoman Maria Saporta told Fox News earlier this month, ahead of the debate between Loeffler and Warnock.
President-elect Joe Biden speaks on Monday, November 9, 2020, at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Del., While Vice President-elect Kamala Harris listens. Both will hinder Georgia’s Democratic candidates for the Senate in the final week of the campaign. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster)
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The Harris event will be in Savannah. Biden will travel to Atlanta on January 4.
Visits by President-elect and Vice-President-elect highlight what is at stake in Georgia’s Senate contests – control of the upper house and how much Republicans will influence the Biden government’s agenda.
If Democrats win both contests in Georgia, they will lead the body to an effective 50-50 tie, allowing Harris to break the ties in votes that follow party lines.
Biden and Harris gave online fundraising presentations to Democratic candidates, but only visited the state of Peach once during run-off campaigns. The president-elect at his rally earlier this month predicted that Georgians would “shock the nation” with record participation in the qualifiers.
“I think Georgia is going to shock your country with a number of people who voted on January 5,” said Biden. “We have a lot of work to do. And I intend to start working immediately. I need two senators in the state who want to do something. Not two senators who are going to get in the way.”
Trump, meanwhile, praised Republican Senators Loeffler and Perdue ahead of what will be his second visit to Georgia to face them next week.
“On behalf of two GREAT senators, @sendavidperdue & @KLoeffler, I will be going to Georgia on Monday night, January 4th, to have a great and wonderful RALLY,” Trump said in a tweet earlier this week. “So important for our country that they win!”
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Vice President Pence visited Georgia several times during the second round, but no events for him in the final week have been announced yet. Members of the Trump family, including Donald Trump Jr., have also visited Georgia previously, as have many Republican senators.
Loeffler campaign communications director Stephen Lawson sparked a series of high-profile speakers yet to be announced in the final week of the campaign in a conversation with Fox News earlier this week about the final sprint to culminate what was a long electoral cycle.
“That’s it. It all comes down to it,” said Lawson.