Biden flexes Georgia muscle alongside GOP in Senate races
by Bill Barrow And Sudhin Thanawala, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 2, 2021 5:20 pm EDT
Last Updated Jan 2, 2021 at 5:26 pm EDT
President-elect Joe Biden is going all-in to help Democrats win two Senate runoffs in Georgia that will determine party control in the critical early years of his administration, a widespread effort that not long ago would have been unthinkable in a Republican-dominated state in the Deep South.
The push ahead of Tuesday’s election comes with early voting making some Republicans nervous as President Donald Trump, who narrowly lost the state to Biden, continues to assert falsely that the Georgia election process is rigged.
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The move has splintered the party s Senate caucus, with some members of the leadership expressing opposition. It is expected to be rejected by both the GOP-controlled Senate and the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
Pence, as the president of the senate, will preside over the joint session of Congress on Wednesday, where he is supposed to announce the candidates who won the majority of Electoral College votes President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
However, Pence s chief of staff Marc Short said the vice president shares the concerns of millions of Americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the last election.
ATLANTA (AP) President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state’s presidential election, repeatedly citing disproven claims of fraud and raising the prospect of “criminal offense” if officials did not change the vote count, according to a recording of the conversation.
The phone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday was the latest step in an unprecedented effort by a sitting president to pressure a state official to reverse the outcome of a free and fair election that he lost. The president, who has refused to accept his loss to Democratic president-elect Biden, repeatedly argued that Raffensperger could change the certified results.