Elected Vice President Kamala Harris called Donald Trump a “voice of desperation” and used a campaign on Sunday for two Democrats in Georgia to shift the balance of power in the U.S. Senate to sharply criticize the president’s efforts to overturn the election results. in the state.
Harris took the stage in Savannah a few hours after news broke that Trump had been trying for an hour on Saturday to lure Foreign Secretary Brad Raffensperger to ‘find 11,780 votes’ and make him the winner in the Peach State to declare.
“Have you all heard of that recording?” Harris asked her audience, “It was definitely the voice of desperation, and it was definitely. And it was a daring, bald, courageous abuse of power by the President of the United States.”
Elected Vice President urged voters in southeastern Georgia to run for Tuesday’s run-off election, on behalf of Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, who both spoke before Harris tackled the microphone. If the two Democrats were to win Tuesday, Harris would be able to exercise the equalizing vote in an evenly divided Senate, if they run in a tough race against Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Rev. Raphael Warnock is closed.
The bombing of Trump’s call to Raffensperger has the potential to weigh Tuesday’s results, and Harris has caused Trump and others who pretend Georgia’s election is somehow contaminated.
“They have a chance to suggest that you do not know what you are doing,” Harris told the crowd, “that you must have gone to work. [delivering Georgia to President-elect Biden] in a way that was illegal. And they filed six lawsuits … and they failed each time. ‘
Biden conquered Georgia by 12,000 votes, and three separate versions overseen by the Republican leadership confirmed the victory.
Warnock, who was born in Savannah, spoke about his history and his familiarity with the region. Ossoff largely clung to his stupid speech and criticism of Perdue and Loeffler, but made time to address Trump’s call as well.
“When the President of the United States calls officials in Georgia and tries to intimidate them into changing the outcome of an election, it is a direct attack on our democracy.” And if Loeffler and Perdue had one piece of steel in their backs, one grain of integrity, they would be out here defending the voters in Georgia against that kind of assault. ”
The average poll by FiveThirtyEight indicates that Ossoff has a lead of 1.8 percentage points, and Warnock has a lead of 2.2 percentage points.
Harris is the first of an elite series of political figures to descend on Georgia in the final days of the campaign. Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to speak Monday afternoon in Central Georgia, followed by Trump Monday night in Northwest Georgia. However, Biden will campaign in Atlanta on Monday afternoon.
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