The outgoing US President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden, Monday, January 4, 2021, will travel to Georgia to support the candidates of their parties in the two-seat Senate elections.
Critical elections in Georgia
The Senate elections come a day after the publication of a voice recording of President Trump, in which he asks the election official in Georgia to "find" the necessary votes to cancel his defeat in the presidential elections in this state, which was a thunderbolt, but its impact on the outcome of the ballot remains unknown.
Two months after the presidential poll, Georgia has restored the campaign environment with banners and buses for candidates, election rallies and home visits, in preparation for Tuesday's elections that include two seats in the Senate, according to Agence France-Presse.
The campaign culminates with a visit by Trump and Biden, and the coincidence of the two visits shows the crucial importance of this vote, which will determine who will control power in Washington, in the next four years.
Georgia has not elected a Democrat to the Senate for 20 years, and if the Democrats win the two seats, Raphael Warnock and John Usoff will enable the Democrats to grab a majority in the Senate, freeing Joe Biden in Washington.
In the event that both Republicans and Democrats get fifty seats, it will be up to the incoming Vice President, Kamala Harris, to weigh the vote, which will then favor the Democrats in the Senate, which is currently controlled by a Republican majority.
If this is the case, Joe Biden will arrive at the White House with the House and Senate controlled by Democrats, which will allow him to implement his program.
Trump's last big gathering
To support Republicans in the crucial Senate elections, Donald Trump will participate, Monday evening, in his last major gathering before leaving the White House on January 20, 2021, and Trump is expected to meet in Dalton, the conservative rural area in northwest Georgia, to receive the heroes.
In rural America, the "Trump 2020" banners for the outgoing president's campaign are still numerous. It is more widespread than that of Senators Kelly Loveler (50 years) and David Brdo (71 years).
Biden, for his part, will also be in Atlanta, the capital of Georgia state. The Democratic president-elect will take part in the campaign alongside Rafael Warnock, a fifty-first black priest, and John Usoff, an audiovisual producer, at the age of 33.
For her part, Kamala Harris said, during an election meeting in the big city of Savannah, where she participated in the campaign alongside the Democratic candidates, that "the future of our country is at stake" in Tuesday's elections.
Republicans also see that the country's future is at stake as well. Kelly Loveller told her supporters in Carttsville: "We are the barrier that will prevent socialism from reaching the United States," as she put it.
As for the polls, they show a fierce rivalry between the two candidates, John Usoff faces David Burdu, Raphael Warnock and Kelly Loveler.
On paper, the Republicans are fighting the battle from a position of strength, while the two Democratic candidates are counting on Biden's victory in the presidential election on November 3, the first for a Democratic candidate in Georgia since 1992.