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Georgia Runoff Elections Tuesday to Decide Senate Control

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Two runoff elections Tuesday in the southern state of
   Georgia will determine whether Republicans or Democrats control power
   in the U.S. Senate, dramatically shaping the legislative maneuvering
   for the first half of President-elect Joe Biden's four-year term in the
   White House.

   With the stakes high, both Biden and outgoing President Donald Trump
   are staging last-minute campaign rallies in the state on Monday, even
   as Trump continues his broadsides against Georgia elections officials
   for refusing to overturn his narrow loss to Biden in the state in the
   November 3 election.

   The incoming president is stumping in Atlanta, Georgia's biggest city,
   for the two Democrats:Jon Ossoff, a television documentary producer,
   and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Baptist minister. Meanwhile, Trump was
   set to campaign in a heavily Republican enclave in Dalton in the
   northern part of the state for Senator David Perdue, a one-time
   business executive facing Ossoff, and for Senator Kelly Loeffler, one
   of the wealthiest of U.S. lawmakers, who faces Warnock.

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