Biden, Pence work to get out the vote in Georgia

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last updated 5 January 2021

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence went to Georgia on Monday to urge their bases to vote in the state's Senate runoffs on Tuesday.

Biden held a drive-in rally in Atlanta to support the Democratic candidates — the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff — while Pence encouraged the crowd at an evangelical church in Milner to back the incumbent GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Republicans will retain control of the Senate if at least one of the GOP candidates wins on Tuesday.

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"Folks, this is it," he said. "This is it. It's a new year, and tomorrow can be a new day for Atlanta, for Georgia, and for America. Unlike any time in my career, one state — one state — can chart the course, not just for the four years but for the next generation." He called Warnock and Ossoff "principled" and "qualified," and said these "honorable" men will "bend the arc of history toward justice and hope and progress."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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