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  • with control of the Senate hanging in the balance, President elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will campaign next week in Georgia, holding dueling events on the eve of runoff elections that will determine the fate of the upper chamber.

  • Hello, Atlanta.

  • Biden will travel to Atlanta on Monday to campaign on behalf of Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff, Say Vote and Raphael Warnock.

  • And when you go to the pose on January 5th, you will perform oral surgery on a nation in need of heart, according to his transition team.

  • With Vice President elect Kamala Harris going to Savannah, Georgia, a day earlier on the same day Biden appears in Atlanta, Trump will travel to Dalton, Georgia toe hold a victory rally to support Republican incumbent Senators Kelly Leffler.

  • If we vote, we will win and David Perdue, God bless you, we love you, Mr President on Thursday, Produce Campaign said the senator is quarantining after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for Cove in 19.

  • Purdue was notified of the contact on Thursday and has tested negative.

  • The bidet and Trump Georgia visits come as the president escalates his fight with fellow Republican leaders in the state for not supporting his bid to overturn the election results.

  • On Wednesday, he called for the state's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, to resign in a tweet, forcing rare pushback from Kemp.

  • Well, all of these things, they're distracting.

  • I mean, I have supported the president.

  • I've said that many times.

  • I worked as hard as anybody in the state on his re election up through November the third.

  • I've supported the legal process that him or any other campaign can go through in this today.

  • But at the end of day, I also have to follow the laws and the Constitution.

  • I got to stay focused on the issues of the day in Georgia, not what somebody's tweeting or or you know, doing in some committee meeting in in the Georgia state capital.

  • If the Democrats win both seats, the Senate would be split 50 50 with the Republican Party giving the tie breaking vote to Harris and control of both congressional chambers to the Democratic Party.

  • If the Republicans win one or both of the Georgia seats, they will retain a slim majority in the Senate, giving them an opportunity to block Biden's legislative goals and judicial nominees.

  • According to the Georgia secretary of state's office, more than 2.5 million votes have already been cast in the run off races.

with control of the Senate hanging in the balance, President elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will campaign next week in Georgia, holding dueling events on the eve of runoff elections that will determine the fate of the upper chamber.

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