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Joe Biden in Georgia to try to wrest Senate from Republicans

2020-12-15T23:31:34.880Z


The Democrat hopes to snatch both seats from this conservative state to have a majority in the upper house of Congress and push through his reforms.


Joe Biden on Tuesday, December 15, displayed his ambition to wrest control of the US Senate during a campaign trip to Georgia to support two Democratic candidates, reinforced by the official confirmation of his victory against Donald Trump now recognized by one of the main Republican leaders and new foreign leaders.

"I need the two senators of this state, I want things to be done,"

Joe Biden said in Atlanta to activists who attended the meeting from their cars, denouncing the inaction of Congress or the negotiations on a vast economic stimulus plan has been slipping since July.

"Send these two men to me and we will control the Senate and we will change the lives of the people of Georgia,"

he promised.

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Earlier, Mitch McConnell, Republican majority leader in the upper house of Congress and staunch supporter of Donald Trump, was the most senior Republican leader to congratulate

“President-elect”

Biden, a term that was avoided. so far many supporters of the incumbent president.

"Many of us hoped that the presidential election would lead to a different result, but our system of government has procedures to determine who will be invested on January 20,"

he explained Tuesday morning in the hemicycle.

Galvanized by victory

Joe Biden, who needs a majority in the Senate to pass major reforms to his program, confirmed speaking to him.

"I told him that while we disagree on a lot of things, there are things we can do together,"

said the former Delaware senator, who has built his career on his ability to find solutions. compromise.

Democrats must win both Georgia seats to return to a tie in the Senate, and wrest control of the Upper House from Republicans.

In the event of a tie, it is the future vice-president Kamala Harris who, as required by the Constitution, would decide the votes.

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Raphael Warnock, who faces Republican Kelly Loeffler, had on Monday called on voters to come to the opening of the advance poll.

This black pastor, who officiates in the former church of Martin Luther King in Atlanta, created the surprise by beating the outgoing senator, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, by more than 300,000 votes.

Kelly Loeffler, however, is expected to recover the votes that went to a dissident Republican candidate in the first round on November 3.

In the other ballot, Jon Ossoff, a 33-year-old former investigative journalist, surprised by chasing outgoing David Perdue.

On paper, the Republicans are victorious, but the Democrats are counting on the mobilization of a now younger and more diverse electorate.

They are also galvanized by the victory of Joe Biden in this state which had not voted for a candidate of their presidential party since 1992. Some Republicans are worried that the multiplication of appeals brought by the supporters of Donald Trump to contest , so far without success, the results of the presidential election, do not push his supporters to abstain, by mistrust of the American electoral system.

Source: lefigaro

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