Trump phone call. Harris: abuse of power. Tomorrow elections in Georgia for control of the Senate

2021-01-04T08:59:54.119Z

"It was a brazen, insolent, brazen abuse of power by the president of the United States." Thus the US vice president-elect, Kamala Harris, spoke in Georgia about the recording of the phone call in which Trump asked the Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to "find" sufficient votes to overturn the outcome of the presidential elections. Harris spoke in Garden City, in view of tomorrow's ballot for two seats in the Senate, decisive for the political balance. Both Trump and President-elect Joe Biden are expected to be in the state today. <iframe width = '480' height = '290' scrolling = 'no' src = 'https: //www.washingtonpost.com/video/c/embed/aba64f5f-8c3c-490f-af34-618ccea732d7' frameborder = '0 'webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen> </iframe> Advisor to President-elect Joe Biden, Bob Bauer, condemned Trump's phone call. The registration, Bauer said, is "indisputable proof" in the pressure and threats against an official of his own party to "cancel one legitimate and certified vote and create another in his place." The phone call, he added, "captures the entire and unfortunate story of Trump's attack on American democracy" Biden and Trump today in Georgia for ballots Donald Trump and Joe Biden are expected today in Georgia, in the south of the country, to support the their candidates in a decisive double senatorial election, with two ballots in play tomorrow, even if the voting operations have already started with the early voting. Electoral signs, candidate buses, door to door and rallies. Two months after the presidential election, Georgia has rediscovered the air of a nationwide campaign, writes the news agency Askanews. With the apex of today's visit by the outgoing president and the president-elect. A rare coincidence that testifies to the decisive importance of these elections, which will determine the control of power in Washington for the next four years. Marked by slavery and segregation, Georgia has seen the birth and death of several leading figures in the struggle for civil rights of African Americans, from Martin Luther King to John Lewis. But this southern state has never elected a black senator and hasn't sent a Democrat to the upper house in twenty years. Democratic candidates therefore start from the rear in Georgia. Yet the party's and Joe Biden's hopes fall on them. If they succeed in achieving the double feat, Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff will bring the upper house to their side, securing all the "levers" of power to the elected president. With 50 seats each for Republicans and Democrats, future Vice President Kamala Harris would have the power to decide among the voters, and therefore to tip the scales on the Democratic side in the now Republican majority Senate. Joe Biden would thus arrive at the White House with a Democratic House of Representatives and a Senate, a scenario that would allow him to apply his program. To support the Republicans, Trump will hold what is expected to be his last major rally tonight before he leaves the White House on January 20. The tycoon should be received as a hero in Dalton, on a conservative ride in northwest Georgia. Because the "Trump 2020" signs remain numerous in the countryside. In addition to those for the senators he comes to support: former entrepreneurs Kelly Loeffler, 50, and David Perdue, 71. Donald Trump's right-hand man, Mike Pence, will be in a rural area in southern Atlanta. Joe Biden will be in Atlanta, the capital of Georgia. The Democratic president-elect will campaign with Raphael Warnock, a 51-year-old black pastor who preaches in the former Martin Luther King church, and 33-year-old audiovisual producer Jon Ossoff. "Everything is at stake" during Tuesday's elections, the "future of our country," Kamala Harris said during a rally in Savannah, a large colonial city where he campaigned with the two candidates. For Republicans, the country's future is also at stake. "We are the protection to prevent socialism from reaching America," Kelly Loeffler told her supporters gathered in the small town of Cartersville. The polls give the candidates head to head. Jon Ossoff will face David Perdue while Raphael Warnock will face Kelly Loeffler. On paper, the Republicans are the favorites in this conservative state. The Democrats, however, leverage Joe Biden's victory in this same state on November 3, the first in Georgia since 1992, to believe it. But Joe Biden's victory here can also be explained by the vote of Republican or independent anti-Trump voters, who this time may return to the party's "fold". More than three million voters have opted for early voting, out of seven million registered, a record for by-elections. But a lower level than that recorded in the same phase for the presidential elections. Factors that make the situation "too difficult to predict," said Trey Hood, a professor at the University of Georgia. African Americans "represent one of the largest bases of support for Democratic candidates in this state and their mobilization is therefore always crucial," said Trey Hood, a professor at the University of Georgia. One in three inhabitants is African American in Georgia (population 10.6 million). This population has always been important, he recalls, but "what has changed is the number of African Americans in the electorate," which is now close to 30 percent. "Black Voters Matter": black voters matter. This slogan, on the model of the now famous "Black lives count", is remembered on the masks of the Hampton organizers. Under the leadership of the former Georgian parliamentarian, Stacey Abrams, in recent years organizations have successfully mobilized to denounce and fight against the institutional obstacles that still block minority voting: long queues, difficulties in terms of registering or for confirm your identity. Field work that could weigh tomorrow.