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Georgia hasn’t elected a Democrat as senator in two decades, but the long southern Republican-red state has increasingly started to shift toward a Democratic blue.
If Democrats manage to win both state Senate seats in Tuesday’s election, it means that the two parties win the same number of seats.
In such a situation, future Vice President Kamala Harris will have the deciding vote, Democrats a majority in both houses of Congress, and Joe Biden will have more leeway to govern.
If they don’t, the parties will each control a camera, after which Biden will be allowed to be shut out and further compromised. His opponents obtain the right of veto in various areas, for example when electing ministers.
Trump loyalists are challenged
In one corner of the ring are the two Republican senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who were clearly in line behind President Donald Trump. In the second are the challenger of the Democrats, the documentary filmmaker Jon Ossoff and Pastor Raphael Warnock.
Tuesday’s election is a runoff, after no candidate received more than 50 percent in the first, which was held in connection with the presidential election. Opinion polls suggest that it is very even.
Jonathan Temple, who is voting in the state capital Atlanta, told Reuters his votes went to the two Republicans.
– If we lose, we will definitely get higher taxes, I can bet on that, he says.
– Then he will retire with a liberal agenda and unbridled spending. That is not good for the United States.
In Cobb County, outside of Atlanta, Roshard Tamplin voted for both Democrats.
“They (Republicans) are trying to make it harder to vote, especially for blacks,” he told Reuters.
Rethink the course
The two rounds of elections have been preceded by the most profitable electoral campaigns carried out before the Congressional elections in the United States, as the money is invested in both fields.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden have appeared in Georgia to show their support for their respective party comrades. Both emphasized that the people of Peach State have the opportunity to shape the entire future of America.
“One state, one state, can set the course, not just for the next four years, but for the next generation,” Biden said in Atlanta on Monday.
Trump met with voters in Dalton, North Georgia, alongside Kelly Loeffler.
– Make sure your votes count, said the president, who emphasized that Tuesday’s election is “his last chance to save the America we love.”
Trump against the electoral system
Vote counting can play an important role, at least indirectly. Political attention has focused on Georgia in recent weeks, as Trump has recently put a lot of energy into getting those responsible in the so-called master wave state to reconsider the outcome of the presidential election.
Biden won by 11,779 votes and secured the Democrats’ first victory in Georgia in a presidential election since 1992. The president has not been listened to for his proposals, and various vote recalculations have not made a difference either.
The problem, as many Georgian Republicans see it, is that Trump’s move may have undermined the system to the point that many voters could stay at home in the Senate elections.
On the other hand, there are many Republicans, led by Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who believe that the president is doing the right thing by questioning the presidential election process.
A record number of voters, more than three million, have voted early or by mail. One result is to wait in the morning or afternoon on Wednesday, Swedish time.
US President-elect Joe Biden endorses Senate Senate candidates Jon Ossoff (left) and Raphael Warnock (right). Here at a performance in Atlanta on Monday. Photo: Carolyn Kaster / AP / TT
Rachel Stewart takes her son Mark to the polls in Evans, Georgia, on Tuesday morning local time. Image: Michael Holahan / The Augusta Chronicle via AP / TT
Outgoing United States President Donald Trump is lending his support to incumbent Senator Kelly Loeffler, who has previously stated that she has voted as president on all issues. Photo: Brynn Anderson / AP / TT
The southern state of Georgia is one of the original 13 states of the United States and is located between Florida, Alabama, South Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean. Georgia is also called the Peach State.
The capital, Atlanta, is also the largest city. The entire metropolitan area with the surrounding cities is the ninth largest in the United States and a node in the southeast.
The state has a total of just over 10 million inhabitants. 33 percent of these are black and 10 percent of so-called Spanish-speaking Latinos, according to the Census statistical authority.
Most Georgia residents have voted for the Republican nominee in the presidential election since 1992. But in 2020, the trend was broken when Democrat Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by a margin of just under 12,000 votes.
Civil rights activist Martin Luther King was from Georgia and said in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech that he wanted to see the children of slaves and slave owners sit together at a table in the red hills of the state.
Georgia’s name comes from the British King George II.
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