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Joe Biden has a lot to be thankful for in the state of Georgia.
His victory there in the November presidential election was one of the defining moments in the country’s rejection of Donald Trump.
Having helped hand him the keys to the White House, Georgians could be about to give him all the power he needs to shape America for the next four years.
In a runoff, Georgia’s two Republican senators face Democrats in a race that polls show is extremely tight.
If the Democrats win both seats, the United States Senate will be evenly divided between the two parties. In that scenario, the vice president, Kamala Harris, would be called to cast the decisive votes.
With Democrats now in the majority in the lower house, it would give the party decisive legislative power in Washington.
If Republicans hold just one of Georgia’s two seats, Americans can probably spend the next four years in a more partisan stalemate.
Republicans may not have been helped by the current president, who continues to question the electoral process. Republicans worry that it will deter voters from attending.
Election officials in Georgia are still grappling with the fallout from Trump’s phone call asking them to ‘search’ extra votes. “Personally, I found that it was something that was not normal and was out of place and no one that I know who would be president would do something like that,” Gabriel Sterling, the Republican voting chief, told Sky News this week.
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Trump calls a Georgia official
Many Republican voters are disillusioned enough by Trump’s defeat in November to skip this election, especially when his name is on the ballot.
Some others, officials worry, the vote will be turned off when they keep hearing from the president that the process is “rigged.”
Joe Biden (R) campaigns for Senate candidates Raphael Warnock (C) and Jon Ossoff (L)
Democrats hope that the energy they generated in November, especially among younger and more diverse populations in big cities like Atlanta, will lead their candidates to victory.
The Reverend Raphael Warnock, who occupies the pulpit that used to be that of Martin Luther King, and the filmmaker Jon Ossoff are close to the headlines Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
In a school parking lot in a suburban Atlanta, Warnock urged voters to “finish what they started” in November. Both parties know that participation is crucial.
The race is already one of the most expensive in history, and the campaigns spend no less than a billion dollars.
It is illustrative of what is at stake in this state: how much of what Joe Biden promised that he will actually be able to deliver, and consequently what path the United States will take over the next four years.
