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Six weeks after the US presidential election, winner Joe Biden ran again: on Tuesday, the 78-year-old campaigned for two Senate candidates from his Democratic Party in the state of Georgia. Voters would have to vote as if their lives depended on it, “because it does,” Biden said. During an appearance in the capital, Atlanta, he asked voters in the southern state to vote for Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in the second round of the January 5 election.
“Send these two men to me and we will control the Senate and change the lives of the people of Georgia,” Biden said in the traditionally conservative state. “It is time to get up and take back our democracy.”
Polls predict closed races
The two Senate runoff elections are of key importance because they will determine the future majority in the United States Senate. As it stands, President-elect Donald Trump’s Republicans have 50 seats in the House of Congress with 100 senators, Biden’s Democrats 48. Republicans only have to win one of the Georgia runoff elections to continue to have the majority in the Senate. This could make the Biden government much more difficult.
The Democrats, on the other hand, have to win the two second-round elections to get the same number of senators as the Conservatives. In this case, they would have an advantage: in stalemate situations, future Vice President Kamala Harris, who by virtue of her position is also President of the Senate, has a casting vote.
In the second round elections, Ossoff and Warnock will compete against Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Polls predict closed races. The so-called early voting started on Monday, meaning voting before the actual date of the election.
Biden had narrowly beaten Georgia against Trump in the November 3 presidential election. He was the first successful Democratic presidential candidate in the state in nearly three decades, since Bill Clinton in 1992.
