The Georgia Senate runoff vote is held today (5th) to determine the majority of the US Senate.
Georgia was the only state in the senator elections held in conjunction with the November 3 presidential election last year to fail to determine a winner for both seats.
Georgia’s election law requires a runoff ballot if no candidate has a majority vote.
Accordingly, the final voting for Republican Congressmen David Purdue and Kelly Loeffler, Democrats John Osoff and Rafael Warnock will be held from 7am to 7pm local time.
Yesterday (4th), a day before the vote, both President-elect Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden fought a campaign in Georgia.
President Trump said, “If the Democrats take control of the White House and the Senate, I will take control of the White House.” “We will fight fiercely.”
In addition, he repeated the claim that there was’no corruption’ in the last presidential election, stressing that he was still fighting because the election was manipulated.
“The whole country is watching Georgia, and power is in your hands,” said Biden, on the’drive-in’ campaign in Atlanta, calling for support for the Democratic candidate.
He also criticized President Trump, saying, “I spend more time complaining about the problem than doing something about it,” and “I don’t know why I still want the job while I’m not working.”
The Senate, which started a new session on the 3rd, has 50 of the 100 seats for the Republican Party and 48 for the Democratic and Democratic independents.
If Democrats take both seats in today’s election, Vice President-elect Camilla Harris could cast a boat as Senate Chairman.
The US media reported that the victory of the Georgia runoff is important for the next administration of Biden, which will be launched on the 20th, to smoothly promote major state affairs such as the election of ministers, health insurance reform, and climate change issues.
VOA news