Trump, Biden hold dueling campaign events on eve of Georgia runoffs as candidates make final pitches
Politics,Georgia Senate Runoffs,Donald Trump,Joe Biden,Polarization,Campaign Rhetoric
With the Senate majority up for grabs, which will likely determine how successful President-elect Joe Biden will be in passing his incoming administration’s agenda, the stakes in Tuesday’s twin Senate runoff elections in Georgia were already enormous.
But with both Biden and President Trump holding election eve rallies in the Peach State, the controversial recorded phone conversation between the president and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger – which went viral on Sunday – adds a climactic twist in the final hours of the runoff campaign.
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