President-elect Joe Biden sped up the Democratic base in Atlanta on Monday, ahead of the second round of the Senate election in Georgia.
Biden asked voters to vote for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, while they face current senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Republicans can maintain their control in the House if only one of their candidates wins, while Democrats must win both to get a 50-50 split, which would make vice president-elect Kamala Harris the tiebreaker.
“We won three times here,” joked Biden, a reference to Republican contests against the election results that ultimately resulted in his victory.
The president-elect directly linked Democratic candidates to the $ 2,000 stimulus check bill that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell denied voting in the Senate.
“If you send Jon and the reverend to Washington, those checks for $ 2,000 will come out the door, restoring the hope, decency and honor of so many people who are fighting now,” said Biden.
Biden is not the only prominent person in the state of Peach on Monday. President Trump is gathering his supporters in the state on Monday night, and Vice President Mike Pence urged voters to help the Senate keep its Republican majority at a Monday rally as well.
Biden beat Georgia by more than 11.00 votes, one of the biggest surprises in the 2020 presidential race. Over the weekend, President Trump called Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and pressured him and other officials to ” find “enough votes in the state’s presidential election to make him the winner, according to the audio of the call obtained by CBS News.
During the call, which Mr. Trump revealed in a tweet The previous Sunday, the president told Raffensperger: “All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”
A source familiar with the matter told CBS News that Raffensperger’s office has received 18 calls from Trump since November 3, but on Saturday it was the first time the two employees connected.
Both parties hope that the results of the presidential elections will motivate the emergence of their bases.
Republican candidate Perdue led Ossoff, his Democratic opponent, by more than 80,000 votes, but failed to get the 50% needed to avoid a runoff. The other race was a special election to fill Senator Johnny Isakson’s seat. Warnock received the most votes in his run, but prominent Republicans, incumbent Loeffler and Congressman Doug Collins, received more combined votes than he did.
More than 3 million Georgians voted early, with 2.07 million of those voting in person and 928,000 by mail, according to Georgia Votes.