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Down To The Wire For Georgia’s Senate Runoffs

WUTC | By Ray Bassett

Published January 4, 2021 at 4:36 PM EST

Runoff day is tomorrow for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats.

Tonight, President Donald Trump holds a rally in Dalton for Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, while President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been campaigning in Georgia for Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

Control of the Senate is in the balance.

On Wednesday, Congress certifies the Electoral College results - and a Republican effort on Capitol Hill to challenge the certification of Biden as the next President is splitting the GOP.

And then, there was the audio released over the weekend of a phone call by President Trump, pleading with and pressuring Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State to change the 2020 election results in the Peach State.

Last week, I spoke with Chris Acuff, an assistant professor in public administration in the Department of Political Science and Public Service on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.