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US President Donald Trump and his elected successor Joe Biden declared the decision for two seats in the US Senate on Tuesday to be the direction for the entire US.
"The fate of our country is at stake," said Trump on Monday evening (local time) at a rally in Georgia.
Biden emphasized that the Democrats in the US state could help determine the political course for a whole generation with their vote in the two runoff elections.
The runoff elections will determine whether Trump's Republicans keep a majority in the Senate or Biden's Democrats take control.
If the Democrats win both seats, Biden could more easily implement his political plans.
Republicans need only defend one of them to get the upper hand in the Senate.
Georgia, once a solid Republican stronghold, had been extremely competitive in the November presidential election.
With almost five million votes cast, Biden ultimately won by just 11,779 votes.
The president still does not want to accept that.
A recording of a phone call from Trump over the weekend in which he urged the Georgia election officer to “find” votes for him so that he could win, caused renewed outrage among Democrats.
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Biden said in his appearance on Monday, "Politicians cannot maintain, seize or usurp power" by questioning a legitimate election.
Biden also accused the president of spending “more time whining and grumbling” than with political measures to contain the corona pandemic.
Jokingly, he also addressed Trump's attempts to overturn the election result and said: "I don't know why he still wants the job - he doesn't want to do the job."
Biden urged his supporters to come to the polls in as large numbers as in November.
The runoff elections are of extreme importance.
A Senate under democratic control could "set the course not only for the next four years, but for the next generation," said Biden.
Before the actual election day on Tuesday, more than three million people in Georgia had cast their votes.
Trump called on Republicans to "flood" polling stations on Tuesday.
The elections for the Senate seats were among the most important Georgia would ever see.
At the same time he reiterated his baseless allegations of electoral fraud.
“The Democrats are trying to steal the White House.
You can't leave them. ”His Vice President Mike Pence declared the Republicans in the US state to be the“ last line of defense ”against the overwhelming power of the Democrats.
"We're going to keep Georgia and we're going to save America," he said.
In Tuesday's runoff elections, Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue would have to defend their Senate seats against Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
If the Democrats won both seats, both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate would have 50 seats each.
And because the elected Vice President Kamala Harris, as the future chairman of the Senate, could always make the difference in a tie, control over the chamber would then in fact be with the Democrats.