President-elect Joe Biden is stepping in the high-stakes Georgia Senate runoffs to boost Democratic candidates Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in their bids to unseat incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA), respectively.
The Biden transition team announced on Thursday that the president-elect will travel to Atlanta on Tuesday the 15th to campaign for Warnock, Ossoff, “and the Democratic ticket” ahead of the Senate elections on January 5.
President Donald Trump’s campaign sounded the alarm on Biden’s plans, warning supporters in an email that the trip “proves that Democrats are taking the Senate runoff elections seriously and so should Republicans.”
Biden endorsed the two Democrats a little over a week before the general elections, saying that Ossoff would put his “passion” to “work for all Georgians, fighting for Georgia’s working families, not the powerful” and that Warnock is “a man of faith, integrity, and a fighter for working families.”
“We need [Warnock] in the Senate to keep up that fight and help push our country forward to restore the soul of this nation,” said Biden.
The two runoffs, the only chances Democrats have to gain control of the Senate, will determine whether Biden will have the support he needs in both chambers of Congress to circumvent potential obstruction from the GOP.
Let’s hope there’s still Joe-mentum in GA
He better do more than just “stump”. Just an hour ago Perdue ran his ad claiming Democrats want “total control” , “illegals voting”, “taxes sky high”, “defunding the police"and “taking your private healthcare away”…none of which is on any candidates platform. If Biden’s heading to the peach state he best be ready to make the case that Georgia, a working class farming state can elect two multimillionaires or two native sons with net worth’s similar to theirs. They can elect insider trading liars that will continue to insider trade and lie AFTER they’re elected or elect two guys that don’t insider trade anymore than the rest of Georgians do. He best make the point that Georgian’s sit down with their families and ask…
what do we need from government” and who is offering it.
Given the president’s lunacy, an extra difficult and important challenge for the Secret Service. Unfortunately.
Hopefully, Stacey Abrams will be a featured speaker at this shindig.
She has done more for Georgia voters rights than anyone.
Be nice to see President Carter there.
President Obama, too?
Polling must look pretty decent (although who can trust it?) for them to send in Biden and burn off any of his political capital. Before the election, several pundits noted that sending Obama and Biden to GA was a good sign Democrats knew they had GA locked down.