Elected President Joe Biden will campaign in Georgia the day before the Senate run-off race on January 5, the same day that President Trump plans to hold a rally for Sens David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
Elected Vice President Kamala Harris will also visit Peach State on January 3 while she and Biden blunt current Democratic opponents Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
Details are not yet clear on when the Biden protest will take place, but it could provide a remarkable split screen of the current president and the president-elect campaigning simultaneously in the same state during a period that is usually fairly quiet in the political world.
“It really feels like we’re at the center of the political universe and will last until January 5,” Maria Saporta, chairwoman of the Atlanta Press Club’s debate committee, told Fox News earlier this month ahead of the debate between Loeffler and Warnock.
Elected President Joe Biden speaks Monday, November 9, 2020 at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Del., While Elected Vice President Kamala Harris listens. Both will be stumped in the final week of the campaign for the Democratic Senate candidates in Georgia. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster)
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Harris’ event will be in Savannah. Biden travels to Atlanta on January 4th.
The visits of the elected president and vice president prefer the interests of the Senate contests in Georgia – the control of the upper chamber and how much say Republicans will have on the agenda of the Biden government.
If the Democrats win both Georgia races, they will bring the body to an effective 50-50 draw, enabling Harris to break ties on votes that fall along party lines.
Biden and Harris each hosted online fundraisers for the Democratic candidates, but only visited the Peach States once during the run-off campaigns. The president-elect in his rally earlier this month predicted that Georgians would “shock” the country with a record turnout for the run-off.
“I think Georgia is going to shock your country with a number of people voting on the fifth of January,” Biden said. “We have a lot of work to do. And I plan to get to work right away. I need two senators in the state who want to do something. Not two senators who are going to stand in the way.”
Trump, meanwhile, has praised GOP senators Loeffler and Perdue ahead of what his next visit to Georgia will be for them next week.
“On behalf of two GREAT Senators, @sendavidperdue & @KLoeffler, I will be going to Georgia on Monday night, January 4, to have a big and wonderful event,” Trump said in a tweet earlier this week. “So important to our country that they win!”
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Vice President Pence has visited Georgia several times during the run-off race, but no event has been announced for him in the last week. Members of the Trump family, including Donald Trump Jr., have also visited Georgia, as have many GOP senators.
Loeffler campaign communications director Stephen Lawson earlier this week teased a number of high-profile speakers for the final week of the campaign in a conversation with Fox News in a conversation with Fox News earlier this week about the finale sprint to the pinnacle of what was a very long election cycle.
“That’s it. It all comes down to it,” Lawson said.