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Georgia, in the southeastern United States, has an electoral system in which a candidate for Senate must receive more than 50 percent of the vote to be elected.
That was not Election Day on November 3. Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are forced to defend their Senate seats in a decisive second election on January 5.
Trump instead
In support of them, they count on President Trump, who is holding an election rally in the state on Saturday.
But influential Republicans are quietly warning that the outgoing president’s presence in Valdosta, southern Georgia, could hurt candidates.
Trump reiterates that fraud marked the outcome of the election, which may mean that Republicans do not go to the polls because they do not trust the electoral system.
Trump has also accused Georgia’s governor, party comrade Brian Kemp, of incompetent. Kemp has not been involved in allegations of voter fraud in the state it controls.
– He hasn’t done anything. I am ashamed to have supported him, Trump has said about Governor Kemp according to AFP.
New test 2024
A major issue overshadowing Republican behavior is whether the 74-year-old Trump intends to follow his instincts and run in the 2024 presidential election.
Top Republicans know their future is in jeopardy if they anger Trump. A lot has happened.
“If Trump shows his political muscles and leads Republicans to victory in Georgia, then victory could also be the first step to his political resurrection,” writes Marc Thiessen, a former spokesman for George W Bush, in The Washington Post.
The Georgia Senate election is, of course, equally important to Democrats. A little less than a month before the elections, political advertising space in the media was reserved for 300 million dollars, more than 2.5 billion crowns.
Former President Barack Obama actively supports the two Democrats Jon Ossoff, who faces Perdue, and Raphael Warnock, who is Loeffler’s rival.
– If the Senate is controlled by Republicans, who are more interested in obstructing. . . than helping people, then they can stop just about anything, Obama said via video link at a party meeting, according to The New York Times.
Grim Berglund / TT
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