总统当选人拜登正在全力来协助民主党赢得两次参议院径流在格鲁吉亚，这将决定在关键早年他的政府，一个普遍的努力，不久前就已经在共和党占主导地位的国家是不可想象方控制在深南方。
周二大选前的推动是伴随着早日投票，一些共和党人感到紧张，因为唐纳德·特朗普总统（以微弱优势败给拜登的总统）继续错误地宣称佐治亚州的选举程序已经操纵。
拜登和他的团队已经筹集了至少1800万美元的资金，以帮助乔恩·奥索夫（Jon Ossoff）和拉斐尔·沃诺克（Raphael Warnock）试图让共和党参议员戴维·珀杜（David Perdue）和凯利·洛夫勒（Kelly Loeffler）入座。拜登的竞选经理和工作人员进入白宫副主任，仁奥马利狄龙，证实了数字周六，未来双方拜登当选副总统卡马拉·哈里斯即将访问的状态。这笔钱包括约600万美元的工作人员和选民数据支持以及1200万美元的两项竞选资金。
当选总统和哈里斯也有记录robocalls大包大揽提前周二的状态。两人计划在乔治亚州各地的市场进行媒体采访，包括选举日上午和下午的“开车时间”广播。
这一努力反映了高额的赌注，民主党人需要大张旗鼓地倾斜参议院，而共和党人只需一个席位即可保持多数席位，并迫使拜登与分裂的政府抗衡。除了这意味着什么拜登的立法前景，当选总统的活动凸显了国家发展成为一个合法的两方战场，什么拜登的球队吹捧他的优势为第一民主党自1992年以来进行的总统选举的状态。
“我们没有关于是否有一个增值服务有当选总统成为其中的一部分的任何谈话。有，” O'Malley Dillon在接受采访时说。“党有这种感觉，看到了他组成的独特联盟。”
拜登周一将在亚特兰大，就在特朗普前往佐治亚州北部城镇道尔顿参加竞选大选集会的同一天。副总统迈克·彭斯（Mike Pence）周一还将在乔治亚州。哈里斯周日将在萨凡纳。
共和党人面临巨大的压力，需要最大化其预期的选举日优势，以弥补民主党在11月大选早期投票率方面的成功。
R-德克萨斯州参议员特德·克鲁兹（Ted Cruz）周六在亚特兰大郊区康明市（Cumming）向洛佩勒（Loeffler）竞选的共和党群众警告说：“这是一次投票选举，民主党正在投票。”
11月，总共进行了约500万张选票。其中包括360万张早期选票，以及大选日的140万张选票。民主党人在早期投票中表现出广泛优势，但共和党人于11月3日获胜。拜登以约12,500票击败了特朗普。珀杜（Perdue）以大约88,000票的优势领先奥索夫（Ossoff），但未能赢得绝对优势。洛夫勒（Loeffler）和沃诺克（Warnock）被迫进入决赛，因为他们都远远落后于多数。
珀杜（Perdue）的最初优势使共和党人对大部分竞选活动充满信心。但是，以绝对多数压倒民主党的黑人选民的早期投票率已成为共和党的主要关切。到目前为止，黑人选民约占早期选民总数的31％。亚特兰大无党派数据分析师瑞安·安德森（Ryan Anderson）表示，数十万缺席选票仍未解决。在大选的这一点上，早期选民的黑人份额不到28％。
同时，超过11万名未参加11月的选民投票参加了决赛。奥马利·狄龙（O'Malley Dillon）说，民主党的分析表明，该集团非常倾向于他们的利益。所有这些表明，共和党人将必须比11月拥有更大的选举日优势。
在北部郊区，民主党人在最近的选举周期中获得了可观的收益，洛夫勒重复了她的径流闪电战的主题，讽刺沃诺克和奥索夫是激进分子，不符合佐治亚州的政治构成。但是她没有对民主党获胜的可能性保持沉默。
毫无疑问，他们充满活力。他们证明了，”她说。“我们需要您确保在星期二让10、20的家人和朋友参加投票。我们有三天的时间来完成这项工作。”
当洛夫勒竞选时，布什总统在推特上发表了更多错误的主张，称拜登在佐治亚州的获胜是欺诈行为。事实上，包括共和党在内的佐治亚州选举官员已经保证了计数的准确性，而且多个法院都拒绝了特朗普和共和党选举的挑战。
Perdue在与一名冠状病毒检测呈阳性的竞选人员接触后，周六仍被隔离。他告诉福克斯新闻，他将错过周一的特朗普集会。
与此同时，在拜登的阵营中，奥马利·狄龙（O'Malley Dillon）说，人们有信心，乔治亚州，无论结果如何，已经为拜登领导下的民主党人提供了一条新的道路。她说，当选总统能激发党的多样化，更自由的基础，而仍然吸引到更多中间选民，包括谁可能凑近共和党城域白人选民。她说，这使得针对“激进分子”和“社会主义”的死记硬背的共和党攻击更加难以坚持。奥马利·狄龙（O'Malley Dillon）说，佐治亚州的投资证明了拜登（Biden）愿意在全国范围内借出自己的品牌，即使是在共和党的据点上。
“乔·拜登（Joe Biden）总是在场上帮助党和帮助候选人，比其他任何人都做更多的筹款活动……参加州党活动。这只是一个他是谁的一部分，”奥马利狄龙补充说，格鲁吉亚是‘反思的当选总统想如何驾驶’他的政治操作的总统。
Biden flexes Georgia muscle alongside GOP in Senate races
President-elect Joe Biden is going all-in to help Democrats win two Senate runoffs in Georgia that will determine party control in the critical early years of his administration, a widespread effort that not long ago would have been unthinkable in a Republican-dominated state in the Deep South.
The push ahead of Tuesday's election comes with early voting making some Republicans nervous as President Donald Trump, who narrowly lost the state to Biden, continues to assert falsely that the Georgia election process is rigged.
Biden and his team have steered at least $18 million to help Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock try to unseat Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Biden’s campaign manager and incoming White House deputy chief of staff, Jen O’Malley Dillon, confirmed the figures Saturday, ahead of upcoming visits to the state by both Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The money includes about $6 million in staff and voter data support and $12 million in fundraising for the two campaigns.
The president-elect and Harris also have recorded robocalls to blanket the state ahead of Tuesday. The pair has planned media interviews in markets across Georgia, including morning and late-afternoon “drive-time” radio on Election Day.
The effort reflects the high stakes, with Democrats needing a sweep to tilt the Senate in their favor, while Republicans need just one seat to keep their majority and force Biden to contend with divided government. Beyond what it means for Biden’s legislative prospects, the president-elect’s activity highlights the state’s evolution into a legitimate two-party battleground and what Biden’s team touts as his advantages as the first Democrat since 1992 to carry the state in a presidential election.
“We’re not having any conversations about whether there’s a value-add to have the president-elect be a part of this. There is,” O’Malley Dillon said in an interview. “The party feels that way and sees the unique coalition that he’s put together.”
Biden will be in Atlanta on Monday, the same day that Trump heads to the north Georgia town of Dalton for an election-eve rally. Vice President Mike Pence also will be in Georgia on Monday. Harris will be in Savannah on Sunday.
Republicans face considerable pressure to maximize their expected Election Day advantage to make up for an apparent repeat of Democrats’ success in early voting turnout in November's election.
“This is a turnout election, and the Democrats are turning out their votes,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned a GOP crowd Saturday in Cumming, an Atlanta suburb where he campaigned with Loeffler.
In November, about 5 million ballots were cast altogether. That included 3.6 million early ballots and about 1.4 million on Election Day. Democrats posted a wide advantage in early ballots, but Republicans made up ground on Nov. 3. Biden defeated Trump by about 12,500 votes; Perdue led Ossoff by about 88,000 votes but fell short of the required majority to win outright. Loeffler and Warnock were forced into a runoff because both fell well shy of a majority.
Perdue’s initial advantage gave Republicans confidence for much of the runoff campaign. But early turnout by Black voters, who lean overwhelmingly Democratic, is now of major concern for the GOP. Black voters make up about 31% of the early runoff electorate so far; several hundred thousand absentee ballots are still outstanding, according to nonpartisan data analyst Ryan Anderson of Atlanta. At this point in the general election, the Black share of the early electorate was less than 28%.
Meanwhile, more than 110,000 voters who didn’t participate in November have cast runoff ballots; O’Malley Dillon said Democrats’ analysis shows that group tilts heavily in their favor. All of that suggests Republicans will have to run up an even bigger Election Day advantage than they did in November.
In the northern suburbs, where Democrats have made considerable gains in recent election cycles, Loeffler repeated the themes of her runoff blitz, caricaturing Warnock and Ossoff as radicals who don’t fit Georgia’s political makeup. But she didn’t mince words about the possibility that Democrats could win.
“Make no mistake, they are energized. They’re turning out,” she said. “We need you to make sure that you get 10, 20 of your family members and friends to the poll on Tuesday. We have three days to get this done.”
As Loeffler campaigned, the president took to Twitter with more false assertions that Biden's win in Georgia was fraudulent. In fact, Georgia elections officials, including Republicans, have vouched for the accuracy of the count, and multiple courts have rejected Trump and GOP elections challenges.
Perdue remained quarantined Saturday after being exposed to a campaign staffer who tested positive for the coronavirus. He told Fox News he would miss Monday's Trump rally.
In Biden’s camp, meanwhile, O’Malley Dillon said there’s a confidence that Georgia, regardless of its outcome, already has proven a new path for Democrats under Biden. She said the president-elect can energize the party's diverse, more liberal base while still appealing to more moderate voters, including metro-area white voters who may have leaned Republican. That, she said, makes it harder for rote GOP attacks about “radicals” and “socialism” to stick. And O'Malley Dillon said the Georgia investments demonstrate Biden’s willingness to lend his brand across the country, even in GOP strongholds.
“Joe Biden is the guy who was always out there to help the party and to help candidates, doing more fundraisers than anyone else ... showing up to state party events. That’s just a part of who he is,” O’Malley Dillon said, adding that Georgia is “reflective of how the president-elect wants to drive” his political operation as president.
