Done, on the pandemic, on climate change. There is so much work we can get done and make the country so much better. And we need senators who are willing to do it, for gods sake. So let me hear you. Are you ready to vote the two senators that will not make roll roadblocks . Are you ready to vote for two senators who fight for progress, not just in the way of progress . Are you ready to vote so two senators know how to say yes, not just the word no . Let me talk about john and rafael for just a minute. Jon was raised in indiana, cut his teeth in politics in justice and equality. Jon was someone who traveled the state, looking to help all georgians, rebuilding our economy, health care and education, jobs in justice. His husband is a doctor, seeing the pandemic on the front lines, who will only do the work of the people, who will always put the interests first. The only persons interests, in fact, are the people of georgia. Thats what he does. Thats his heart. Jon will always be there for you, and i promise you, and hell be there for the rest of the country as well. Jon, im looking forward to working with you, man. I really am. And reverend warnock. For how hard youre working, i dont know how you are in such great shape, man. You get up and do it, man. I reached for his arm and it was as big as my thigh. Youre a good man, 11 group up in Public Housing in savannah. First in his family to go to college. Got there on pell grants, work study, another morehouseman. I tell you what, i man of god of e ebenezer, standing in the righteous footsteps of dr. King as he seem Public Service didnt stop at the church door after preaching on sunday sermons, its add voe indicavocating for health care, fair more equal Justice System and fighting chance for all georgians. Hell bring his soul to his work because thats who he is. He is you. Ooel always be your voice of washington. Have no doubt about that. I can hardly wait to work with you as well, senator. I said when i announced, one of the three reasons i was running is electing people of character. They know Public Service isnt about them. Its about you. They know public isnt service about enriching themselves, this about making peoples lives better. You know, this is a tough moment for the country. We just passed 300,000 deaths due to covid. Like many of you, i know what it feels like to lose someone thats part of your heart. I know what that black hole that seems to open up in your chest. It seems like youre being sucked into it. I know how hard it is this time of year and look across the table and see that empty chair at christmas or new years. My heart really goes out to all of you who have lost a loved one, gotten sick or suffering from the disease. Yet in this darkness, finally got some good news with the vaccine approval. Still, its going to take time and money to scale up the manufacturing distribution and the element of injection, the element of injection of the vaccine. Meanwhile, the economic crisis have millions of americans out of work through no fault of their own. They need to get immediate help to families struggling right now. Need to get moving on arrebuildg our economy, Building Back better than before. As tough as this moment is in this country, as dark of these day of winter seem, im still more optimistic about the future of this country than ive been my whole career. I know what we can do. I know what this country is capable of. I know the future we can build together. I hope youll send john and rafael to washington to help me get that done. It really is time to leave the anger and bitter politics of division behind us. Its time for us to come together as a country and start delivering on what we have to get done for the people of america. This is the United States of america. Its ready to act. Send john and rafael to washington. Thats what will happen. You know, i ran on the commitment to be president for all americans. John and rafael are running on the commitment to be senators for all georgians. Im asking you to support them because if you do, the doors of promise and progress will open in washington. Were going to start to get done what we have to do. More than anything well make the lives of every georgianen every american better. Thats not hyperbole. Thats fact. Starting today, you can vote early. Go to iwillvote. Com ga to find your polling location. Tell your friends, your family just like you did in november. Turn out the vote so its not even close. Dont give them an excuse. Dont let them take away your power. Vote for both john and rafael and remember the final words left to us by congress, my dear friend and american hero, john lewis. Remember what john said. He said the vote is most powerful nonviolent change you have in a democratic society. You must use it because its not guaranteed you can lose it. Use it. You have the power to win this election again. Let your voices be heard so the voice of georgia can be heard. Theres nothing beyond our capacity. Theres no limit to americas future. Nobody can tear america apart. Lets choose hope over fear. Unity over division, science over fiction and yes, truth over lies. Its time to stand up. Take back our democracy. Send me these two men and we will control the senate and we will change the lives of people in georgia. God bless you and make god protect our troops. Go out and vote. Vote, vote. Hi, every one. We have been listening to president elect joe biden on the campaign trail in georgia where he is rallying the vote in a fiery speech there. President elect biden detailed the agenda there that a democratically run senate could help him usher in, including desperately needed measures like covid relief. President elect biden also has his sights set far beyond that january 5th contest. Today he addressed the task he will soon face as president. Thes thing of united a deputies lie deeply divided america todays event comes on the heels of president elect bidens address to nation last night where he stepped into the yawning Leadership Void with a speech marking his Electoral College wins that was equal parts rebuke of a rogue gop, renewal of the american democracy and reboot of americas toxic political climate. President elect biden sought to single out election workers and every day americans as quote, enfue infused with character as he praised the integrity of the Judicial Branch which this election cycle stood out in the democratic experiment as the only branch of government not corrupted by trumps false claims of fraud. Here is president elect biden in those blistering remarks last night. The Trump Campaign brought dozen and dozens and dozens of legal challenges to test the result. They were heard again and again. Each of the times they were heard, they were found to be without merit. None of this has stopped base let claims about the legitimacy of the results. Even more stunning, 17 republican attorneys general and 126 republican members of the Congress Actually signed onto a lawsuit filed by the state of texas. That lawsuit asked the United StatesSupreme Court to reject the certified vote counts in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. Its a position so extreme weve never seen it before. A position that refuses to respect the will of the people, refuse to respect the rule of law and refuse to honor or constitution. The Washington Post describes binds address to the nation this way. Quote, in sweeping and sometimes agitated comments, 37 days after he have projebted winner, biden attempted the unify a polarized and skiddish country with direct appeals to the more than 74 million americans who voted for trump. One such american, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell today, for the very first time, offered his former Senate Colleague a belated acknowledgement of his win saying the Electoral College had spoken. Today i want to congratulate president elect joe biden, the president elect is no stranger to the senate. Hes devoted himself to Public Service for many years. I also want to congratulate the Vice President elect, our cleg from california, senator harris. All americans can take pride our nation has a female Vice President elect for the very first time. President elect joe bidens president ial in a moment is where we start today with some of our favorite reporter and friends. Former congresswoman donna evers is back. I want to start on that note. Im a devoted fan of your twitter feed and the reporting that you push out through it. I wonder what you make of even this moment. It still feels recare yoprecari the republicans are ready to drop their bs and get on board with joe biden is still committed to doing which is try to unite this polarized and some places best of your knowledging on violent country. Yeah. Its extremely precarious. I dont expect it to necessarily change any time soon. The reason being that listen, the golden rule of politics is, at least my golden rule, is to understand first and foremost that elected officials tend to be reactionaries than they tend to be leaders. When you take that and apply it to this situation, when you understand that according to a lot of public polling and research that we have at our disposal, upwards of seven out of ten Republican Voters believe this election was fraudulent. They believe joe biden is illegitimate that donald trump won this election. When you have a overwhelming majority of your partys voters feeling that way, most of their elected representatives at the local state and federal level are not willing to confront those people. They are not willing to be leaders in this position. They would rather be reaction y reactionari reactionaries. They would rather sign onto this joke of a lawsuit coming from texas. They would rather stay silent on the president s twitter feed choosing to empower him or justify some of these sweeping and baseless allegations hes made. All across the party theres been this dark choice con fronting republicans over the last four to five weeks which is do we choose to sort of throw our it in one final time with donald trump understanding full well its not going change the out come but insulate us from his anger and from the wrath of our constituents back home and by doing so, prolong our career and protect the influence and power that we have amassed in washington or do we choose to speak this very uncomfortable truth and take our careers and put them on the line knowing were going to incur the anger and the wrath and the retribution of those constituents and the decisions made by many of these republicans speak for themselves in that regard. They have not been willing to take that. Well, donna, i guess i would say if the truth becomes uncomfortable, you should find a new job. They made a terrible calculation. If you listen to what joe biden waited, he waited 37 days to say what he said last night. What he said last night was essentially, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Yeah. I have to tell you last night that was the speak iech ive b waiting for for toofive weeks. For five weeks hes been largely silent in challenging these republicans who are going to court, one court after another and last night he spoke a truth that many of us have been waiting to hear and that is that a majority of republicans in the house of representatives have di based the institution of the United States and they have been following the president of the United States to want to over turn a free and fair election. Joe biden spoke that truth and while he talked about unity, i thought it was important for him to call out these republicans because they will go down in history as republicans who wanted to undermine the very foundation on which this country was founded in our constitution and a free and fair election. Last night, joe biden finally put to words what i know he must have been feeling for the last five weeks. He is is not reactionary. He can sustain five weeks of news cycles filled with basically smears and disinformation. He can hold his powder and then really drop, lower the boom. I thought that both holding up the patriots, holding up the people who chose country over party makes men and women that tim alberta talk about look even smaller, even more craven. I want to play for you and i think you single this out as well in realtime, his defense of the poll workers and the election workers, the real heroes in this. Many of them republicans. Let me play that. Well talk about this on the other side. Its truly remarkable because so many of these patriotic americans are subject to so nuch, enormous political pressure, verbal abuse and threats of physical violence. What all wish our fellow americans in these positions will always show such courage and commitment to free and fair elections, its my sincere hope we never again see anyone subjected to the kind of threats and abuse we saw in this election. Its simply unconsciousable. We owe these Public Servants a debt of gratitude. They didnt seek the spotlight. In our democracy survived because of them, which is proof, once more, its every day america americans infused with honor, character and decency that is the heart of this nation. You can tell hes emotional of talking about what these men and women of both Political Parties have been subjected to. You saw that throughout his campaign of him lifting up average americans and he did that last night in talking about poll workers, judges, people who he believes upheld democracy and i think throughout the speech, it was really the most forceful defense that i think hes had of the election and really of his own legitimacy as president. Convincing and speaking to Trump Supporters and i think taking a step back for looking at this remarkable period over the last 24 hours for biden where you had that speech that he gave which was pretty forceful. You have him today talking to Mitch Mcconnell and by binds account six or seven other senate republicans. You have him in georgia as listeners heard at the start of this, really campaigning and seeing for the first time whether he has coattails and he has a political wind he can help other candidates. Really the country, theres a big swing right now thats happening toward biden where most of us have accepted this for the past five weeks but biden really is taking over in many respects right now and were seeing that swing to him in a pretty dramatic way. Its become clear over the last 24 hours or so. Its a swing tim alberta that defies your reporting. 7 in 10 republicans are individuals who votes for trump Still Believes the lies that trump told. Thats the sustain, thats the injury that trump has done to our country. Thats his lasting kick in the jaw to america on the way out. You have some haunting reporting about things that bring us together. I detected one common feeling that binds together this deeply faktured nation. Fear fear of violence, fear for lively hoods, fear of far left socialism or far right authoritarianism. Fear that america is no longer capable of conquering its great challenges. Above all fear that we are too alienating, too angry with each other, too fundamentally misunderstand stood by the other laugh of society to ever truly heal. Thats the most haunting and im going to guess accurate description of the country at this moment as much as it pains me to say that. Enter joe biden. Whats your prediction . Its painful to write. Its painful for you to read back. I wish more than anything that i could give a sunnier outlook on where we are but its not possible. You have a person like joe biden, a politician like joe biden. Just a person like joe biden who on paper is sort of tailor made for this moment. I remember having a conversation with him in early 2017. He was telling the story about how he would spend his afternoons in the senate and senator dominating the area small room, no staff, no family, no lobbyists allowed. It was senators only. They sut down and talk to each other. These gals and girls would develop a real bond. Biden was telling how that room was demolished and people stopped using it. He tried to have lunch with old friends and it wasnt there anymore. How that was symbolic of america unraveling. He was very emotional talking to me about that. At his core, this is who joe biden is. He really does believe as an institutionalist in bringing these parties together and trying throer the temperature and trying to turn down the volume in washington and across the country. You do have somebody who is fit to meet this moment. I dont know that the country going to be receptive to those efforts how ever earnest and sincere they may be. I think you have a country so at war with itself right now and to the last line that i wrote there, the really striking thing when you talk with people, republicans or democrats, conservatives, liberal, whatever. They will tell you in one breathe how frustrated and how angry they are to feel like they are not being listened to. They are being judged. In the next breath they will deliver these sweeping judgments of the other side in treating them with the charactering them in the exactly the same way they would have just spoken about a moment ago. It captures this chicken and the egg dynamic where we really e cant get to the root causes of what has divided us. Donna, president elect biden seemed to be speaking to the you are gener urgency how importa would be if governing is the priority of the party to win the two seats in georgia. I thought he made the most forceful case that i heard him make. What do you think the sort of winning messages are in those Georgia Senate races. I think that was compelling message. As much as joe biden wants to unite the country, he also realizes the challenging moment were in. He understands that it may take that one party rule just for this period of time so that we can put things back on the right track and joe biden is the one to take us in that direction. I think a message going in and a strong one for democrats in turning out the vote is that joe biden needs those two senators so he can get things done for the American People. You want covid relief. You have infrastructure. You want a s