Trump and the US nervous as the Democrats, ahead in the Georgia runoff elections, on the brink of trifecta

WASHINGTON: Democrats in the US are about to seize control of the United States Senate after winning a second round in Georgia and establish a narrow lead on another in a repeat presidential election.
The partial results, which strengthened the hands of the Democratic Party and is a setback for the president Donald trump and his insurgent supporters who continue to bring false accusations of electoral fraud, came even as a joint session of the United States Congress met in the capital to formally recognize Joe Biden as the country’s 46th president.
Agitated Trump loyalists gathered outside the White House for a “stop the robbery” rally that the defeated president is expected to address, though by all accounts it is Trump who is trying to steal a second term.
As with the presidential election, the defeated president began to claim fraud in the Georgia elections once the tide began to turn against the Republicans in power after they jumped to the first clues.

Acting Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler led by 100,000 and 80,000 votes respectively with 90 percent of the votes counted, but Democrats were confident their candidates Raphael Warnock and Job Ossoff would overcome the deficit when the votes were counted. from the Atlanta metropolitan region, with a black majority. .

When that started to happen, Trump tweeted: “Looks like they’re putting together a big ‘voter dump’ against the Republican candidates. Waiting to see how many votes they need?” followed by “I just found another 4,000 Fulton County ballots. Here we go!” He also retweeted unsubstantiated fraud charges from his supporters despite Republican officials in Georgia saying the election was clean.
As it turned out, Warnock comfortably defeated Loeffler by more than 50,000 votes, while Ossoff led Perdue by 16,000 votes, a margin of less than 0.5 percent, allowing for a recount.
Rejecting Trump’s charges of election fraud was the result of another state election in which Republican Lauren Bubba McDonald retained her post as public service commissioner against a Democratic opponent, garnering more votes than Perdue and Loeffler.
Trump’s tactic, adopted by his racist and conspiratorial supporters, was the same one he used in several closely contested states during the presidential election: claim victory on the basis of the first clues from majority white rural counties and reject the votes that they are later counted too many. various metropolitan areas with large black populations, such as Atlanta in Georgia, Detroit in Michigan, and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.
When the Senate’s defeat became apparent Wednesday morning, Trump tweeted: “Last night they found 50,000 ballots at the last minute. Fools embarrass America. Our electoral process is worse than third world countries!”

Democrats who gain control of the Senate (in addition to winning the White House and the House of Representatives) with two victories in Georgia will have profound consequences.
Biden’s incoming White House and the party will now find it easier to push their political and economic agenda as they assume leadership of committees, including Senate panels tasked with confirming cabinet, judicial and ambassadorial appointments.
It will also mean that Kamala Harris will become one of the most important vice presidents in history, with a tiebreaker vote in a Senate locked at 50-50.
Democratic control of the Senate will also reduce powerful Republican lawmakers like Mitch McConnell to the minority in a Great Old Party that is already divided with Trump and his insurgents, including 14 senators, who criticize more than 30 moderate Republicans who disagree with Trump’s effort to steal a second term.

The president’s son, Eric Trump, issued a strong warning to Republican lawmakers who do not support his father, tweeting: “I will personally work to defeat every Republican senator / congressman who does not oppose this fraud; they will be primacy in their next elections and they will lose. ”