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And david perdue in a state where they have not they will flip the senate blue and gain control of congress. A republican victory by contrast will impede president elect joe bidens ability to make headway on his agenda. All this Political Drama reaching a climax as a joint session of congress meets later today for the final count of Electoral College votes, the last step in officially confirming joe biden as an expresident of the United States. But Many Republican lawmakers are planning to block his certification while outside the capital Trump Supporters rally in protest, calling for an urgent request of the national guard, the outcome remains in limbo at this hour but its clear for now that the battle for power will continue far beyond the peach state in the coming days. Lets get right to it for the latest updates in the ground in atlanta, we turned out fox news correspondent Charles Watson. Charles . Good morning, john. In atlanta where the absentee ballots are being tabulated for Fulton County. You can see behind me election workers are still here and they continue counting ballots, the election counter tells fox news that all 100 plus thousand absentee ballots received will be counted tonight. We are told that the number was originally expected to be 108,000 ballots, but in just the last hour or two, they received an additional 4,000 ballots. Thats what you see the election workers working on right now. This operation could extend until at least 2 00 in the morning. There were some complaints from poll watchers in regards of not being able to see the counting of the absentee ballots. That issue was taken up in an emergency order, judge ruled that observers needed to be allowed within 10 feet of the counting of all times so they were rearranged as the counting was happening as they were pushed closer to those election workers as they could monitor the counting ring and see what was going on. There were also issues over blue folders that were being raised up at some tables where ballots were coming in, a judge ruled that the folders had to be removed as well be other places around the state, we are told that counting has just about stopped for the evening and will resume at some point later today. In the case of chapman county, election workers they are counting about everything they got with the exception of absentee ballots that came in today by mail. Just a few moments ago, we heard from senator Kelly Loeffler who said this race is not over. Take a look at what she had to say. You guys are awesome. Thank you so much. It took everything the person in this room to get where we are right now. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. We have some work to do here. This is a game of inches. We are going to win this election. We also heard from her challenger Rafael Warnock a few moments ago who said that this race isnt over. They are going to continue fighting and obviously the counting operation will no doubt continue until wednesday. But the secretary of state said we should be able to figure out where we are at in this race at some point possibly by noon wednesday. John . So no full count until later today. That being wednesday, charles . Exactly. No full count. There are still some outstanding votes in several counties, many of them democratic strongholds. Election workers have packed it up. They will continue counting later today probably until the morning and we should know about where we are at later today. Charles watson reporting live from atlanta. Thank you. Lawmakers are anxiously awaiting the results. Party leaders going to see who will control the senate when joe biden is sworn in as president s just a couple of weeks from now. All of this as dozens of republicans plan formally reject the provincial Election Results at todays joint session of congress. Lucas tomlinson with the reaction tonight. What is the reaction right now . If you are republican, the mood is gloomy, the prospect of pushing forward president elect joe bidens agenda. The certification begins in 12 hours at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Electoral votes will be brought in mahogany boxes. The Vice President will read aloud the boats from each state in a medical order but the process is not going to be expected to run smoothly. They say they will challenge joe bidens victory. One of them spoke to Shannon Bream tonight. The 12 of us who have come together to call for a commission, that would be a ten day audit of what has transpired in this election. Look at these disputed states and look at the allegations that are there on election fraud, voter fraud. Earlier today the president tweeted the Vice President has the power to reject fraudulent electors. Tonight, the New York Times is reporting that Vice President pence told the president that he did not have the power to block congressional certification. The president released a statement saying that the New York Times report regarding comments that Vice President pence made to me today was fake news. He never said that for the Vice President and i are in total agreement of the Vice President has the power to act. But not all republicans agreed that the president should be challenging results of the election. I think hes on very o on the sound constitutional guards down mike rounds. I fear a day where the democrats control the congress and begin throwing out republican electoral wars and points to this president that we will be establishing tomorrow as their justification. One of the president s biggest senators on capitol hill agrees, they trust the election to the people acting through the Electoral College, not congress. And the trust of any adjudication in courts, not congress. Congress power is limited to counting electoral votes submitted by the states. In the two months since the provincial election the Court Rejects any challenges presented by the legal team. It has been a long two months. Lucas tomlinson in washington, d. C. , thank you. A lot to talk about as we near the end of the historic election season. Lets bring in our panel. Former Deputy Assistant to george w. Bush. Judith miller at the Manhattan Institute for policy research, and Fox News Contributor sean duffy. Thanks, all of you, for being with us on this very interesting Election Night. Brad, you had an interesting quote. You said that if you are joe biden, you would be praying for a republican electoral victory in georgia. Why . I think it keeps his crazies at bay. Look, joe is a creature of the senate. He knows his senators quite well, has a great relationship with Mitch Mcconnell. Very professional. I think there is Nothing Better than joe biden would like is to be a dealer and to negotiate deals with the republican rather than to cave to the most progressive of democrats both in the house and in the senate. So i think joe biden is a oneterm president at best. Hes looking for a legacy as president. What better way to get things done then kennedy done and they can only be done with joe biden then with a Republican Senate. Talk about relationships, in these waning days of the Trump Administration hes getting brickbats from the white house. How would you like to be Mitch Mcconnell right now . I think Mitch Mcconnell is probably just as uncomfortable as Vice President mike pence at this moment whom the president has also asked to ignore his constitutional responsibility and to do the dishonorable thing. Look, whats happening tomorrow, or today, is not going to change the outcome of this election. Everyone knows it. But it is going to delay the process and put the put the republicans in an impossible situation. Its so ironic to me that President Trump on his way out is actually sabotaging his own Vice President by asking him to ignore the constitution. And Mitch Mcconnell, both of those who have been faithful lapdogs to mr. Trump. But loyalty in the Trump Administration only seemed to work one way and that is everyone has to be loyal to trump. This is an irresponsible request that donald trump has made. At least a dozen senators have agreed to step up and ignore the constitution, ignore the absence of evidence of voter fraud. But i think in the end, we all know how this plays out. Ultimately the senators of congress, they are going to have to do their duty and recognize political reality. Joe biden has won. Donald trump eventually will have to accept this too. I want to read part of that statement from President Trump. Lucas tomlinson read part of it earlier in his report and i wanted to add this, the last paragraph in that statement from the president reads, our Vice President has several options under the u. S. Constitution. He can decertify the results or send them back to the states for change and certification. He can also decertify the illegal and corrupt results and send them to the house of representatives for the one vote, one state tabulation. Sean, what do you think about the president s reasoning there . I dont think thats going to work. What you are going to see is the house and the senate come of the republicans object to certain states, six of them including wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, and others, they are going to have a debate. Contrary to what judy just said, its constitutional that the results of the states go to the congress and they actually get a chance to vote on them and debate them. I do not think its unreasonable to say that we want to have a commission which Marsha Blackburn talked about earlier in the program to say that we should have an Electoral Commission to make sure elections are official you have tens of millions of americans who dont believe this election was fair and if you are job you joe biden who wants to bring the nation together, i feel confident that i won, there were no shenanigans. So take a look. Im still going to be the winner and all you republicans should feel good about it. By the way, ive lost races but we lost control of the house when i was in congress. When you lose, you go, thats the way the voters, you know, wanted the congress to be. But here, there is so many anomalies that republicans are concerned about. I think its fair to go back and take a look so can feel good moving forward. So youd be in favor of this Electoral Commission that ted cruz and others are pushing . Absolutely. I have real concerns about what happened here. I think that would be the right approach and if you want to unify america, youve got to feel confident that the Election Results was fair and honest. But you have Joe Biden Taking Office on january 20th. You dont have a lot of time to put together a commission and go around to the various states that are in question here and try to, you know, study what happened, do an autopsy on the vote. Thats very true in washington, sean knows is about procedure and those who make the rules and follow the rules and its one of numbers. Do you have the votes in order to accomplish what youre seeking to do. Look, the procedure we are going to see today is basically ceremonial. Its an act of congress. You can take that further by using the procedure to your benefit to shed light on the irregularities in this state. Thats fine. But to think theres going to be a commission . Its not going to happen. Doesnt mean that you cant seek that that happens. But at the end of the day, joe biden and Kamala Harris are going to be inaugurated on genuine 20th at noon. Thats the way its going to be. But they are making a record and its important that a record be made of these grievances. The question is what will come from this . Is there going to be a National Reform when it comes to the election procedure . Its up to congress. If weve learned and the lesson, that needs to be done as well as Campaign Finance reform. Do you see the appetite in congress . I guess it depends on who wins these two senate seats in georgia but the uc eagerness for some kind of national overhaul of state and local voting systems . I dont see that now but it depends on what president elect and soon to be President Biden will wants to do. This is a mess and the fact that 73 million americans voted for donald trump and feel aggrieved, i understand. There were Many Democrats who felt aggrieved in 2016. But i agree with brad to come of this race is over. There is no evidence of massive voter fraud that could change the outcome. What sean is proposing is just more delay. Weve already seen enough of a delay. We have a huge number of problems that must be dealt with urgently, especially the fact that covid has still killed 360,000 americans. Joe biden is not being briefed, not getting cooperation that he has requested and required. Lets end this nonsense, move on with the agenda of a nation. You have all been good enough to say you would stay with us for a few hours to this evening. We will be checking with you again. Thanks very much. Vote still trickling in tonight. A republican law in georgia would not only get democrats control of the senate but also shakeup Key Committee assignments. Coming up next, well tell you who stands to win which coveted assignment next. See every delivery. Every yikes. And even every awwwwwwww. Wait, where was i . Introducing self protection from xfinity. Designed to put you in control. With realtime notifications and a week of uninterrupted recording. All powered by reliable, secure wifi from xfinity. Gotta respect his determination. Its easy and affordable to get started. Get self protection for 10 a month. Though it has now been two months since the president ial election, President Trump has been essential to the georgia run off. His rally really tested his ability to turn loyal supporters to republican votes for Kelly Loeffler and david purdue. He doubled down on claims that the new vendor results were rigged hoping to use that claim to motivate voters. Take a listen. Ive not had any regulators brought to my attention theyll make the regularities brought to my attention and we are ready for the calls and emails but i can tell you the sectary of States Office was ready to go with their investigators and their teams to be able to tackle any t of issues out there. Lets bring in california congressman elect darrell issa. Congratulations on being sworn in sunday. Good to be no longer elect but elected. Elected, excuse me no problem. Havent taken your seat yet, how is that . I have, ive taken the first few votes. Welcome back to washington. Its still early and our First Official act were a few simple votes including the speakers. Well be listening to the elect doors and the vote count thatll ultimately determine the next president. It does seem, congressman, weve lived through another election, we dont have the results yet. But a race and election that was all about President Trump. It certainly seems hes been the outside Political Force at work in these candidates moving forward. Certainly on the republican side. Does it seem like to you . It has. Thats not surprising. No one expected the president would go softly into the night. Hes a bigger than life figure. But as we saw tonight, although it is a razor close, there was a difference between the two republican senators and how they performed. Almost 1 as of now. Obviously cant tell for sure sure, but it look like purdue might pull off this win and keep the republicans with a one seat majority. That remains to be seen. But the one thing it is for sure is this was an election like no other in georgia. More money, more outsiders, more people telling georgians how the vote and perhaps that distorted the race, at least a little. While we are waiting for the final result, can you talk to us about the trump stimulus factor . As you know he made a play earlier this week to get the hill to cut checks for americans for 2,000, which is 1400 more than the 600 at the house and senate agreed to. How do you get a sense that pushed by the president factored in here and not with the candidates but with voters . I think its important any time that an elected official says that he wants something that it appears to be consistent and with strength. The fact that he didnt get it, he didnt get it on a bipartisan basis but did put both of these senators in a pretty tough position where being fiscal conservatives thinking 600 was enough versus 2,000, they really couldnt win. So that was difficult. Lets remember that most of these votes were not voted today, they were already counted in the days and weeks ahead. So a lot has to do with where where the voters and what were they thinking about, a matter of several weeks ago, and the fact is that advertising, much of it disingenuous as it is on both sides influenced a lot of voters. I think the one story here is there are more voters and different voters who were brought in, people who turned of age and so on and unlike most races, both sides were competing for these firsttime voters and that may be the story of why this race could come down to 1,000 votes. I want to make sure i ask you looking ahead to tomorrow or later today, excuse me. We are expecting a number of your colleagues, dozens of them, to object to the certification of the Electoral College votes. I think we are looking at states like pennsylvania and arizona and georgia and a couple of others potentially. The president has been weighing in about the unique role of the Vice President has to play here. Take a listen to President Trump and his rally in the dalton last night. I hope mike pence comes through for us. I have to tell you. Of course if he doesnt come through, i wont like him quite as much. Definitely some goading from the commander in chief there. If you had to place a bet, do you think the Vice President is going to take the bait . Do you think hes going to make a move tomorrow . What is your sense of him . Mike pence and i came into congress 20 years ago. Hes a straight shooter. Hes going to play it by the book. Fa house member and senator jointly object, hes going to announce that. We will go into recess, two hours of debate. There will be votes and ultimately come back together. That may happen not once but several times statebystate. He is going to over that. What quite candidly, joe biden will tell you that he has seen this before just as i have in 2005, Barbara Boxer and congresswoman tubb jones agreed to do just exactly that when it came to the question of ohio. A lot of people are acting like this has never happened before, its happened three times in my 20 years so this will be the fourth time. What is different this time as there will be multiple states and its not just one senator but a dozen senators who believe that this issue should be teed up, talked about, and whether they think its going to change the outcome or not, they could really think it should be something where we fix some of the parts they perceive as broken going forward, particularly the idea that the constitution was ignored and other legislatures decided on changes as to the time, place, manner of the race. Pretty important item when its written to the constitution and then ignored. Congressman, thanks for pulling an all nighter for us. I suspect you may be in the same position tomorrow night or later tonight, excuse me, now that its 1 30 in the morning. I dont know what day it is. We wish you the best with that and well be covering all of that live. See you soon. You bet. How the outcome could impact your wallet and why many experts are imagining a mixed bag when it comes to the stock market . That is next. The balance of power in our government is going to see something of a Ripple Effect throughout the nation as a result of the georgia runoffs. The stock market hangs on the outcome in the matter who wins, investors are expecting a big impact. Lets bring in our panel once again. John, we saw the dow take about a 1 drop yesterday, 285 points. Got about half of that back today. Investors are said to be nervous about the outcome in georgia as well as the coronavirus continuing to rage on. How prevalent is that economic thinking when it comes to capitol hill . I think its real because when you raise taxes, when you have more regulation, you can impose the green new deal, open borders, soft on china, those are all policies that are bad for the American Economy and if its bad for the American Economy its bad for the stock market. I find it interesting though, john, that wall street are the biggest funders of democrats, of the joe biden campaign. I think by the end they are hoping theyll have a divided government and with a divided government, they believe that republicans will stop all the crazy things they actually helped fund with her campaign contributions. I think its a real risk that well have a downturn in the economy because of bad policy moving away from the trump era. How do you see it . We still dont have an answer until we know later in the day with the balance of power is going to be but there is apparently some nervousness on wall street. Of course. Wall street is always nervous about the prospect of higher taxes. But i think when you look at the Biden Economic agenda, john, it is a fairly moderate agenda and certainly his choice of cabinet has been very, very moderate. These people are experienced but they are not radicals. What joe bidens emphasis has been is on restoring the middle class, bringing back those 11 million jobs and have been lost due to the pandemic and all of the revenue that has been lost. Hes going to have a very, very difficult economic road ahead and hes going to need buy in from moderate republicans and from the left of his party. So unless there is a change in the senate, its unlikely that he is going to be able to take any radical steps. I think you can look forward to biden focusing on covid, on the pandemic, and on bringing back the economy and preventing the kind of decline that sean just spoke about. His own Vice President Kamala Harris endorse the green new deal. Shes a big advocate of that and for republicans, that is, well, an economy killer. There is no doubt about it and thats why its so important for wall street and america to have restraint on the democratic agenda and that can only happen if we have a majority of republicans controlling the senate. Even by one. Because you control committees, you control agenda, and thats the stopgaps. I think wall street is hoping that republicans keep control of the senate. It puts the brakes on the democrats, theres nothing that they are like better than stalemate. They dont react well to change, especially radical change. Joe biden has told us, hes warned us that he will raise taxes. The spending alone even on a more progressive and radical agenda is unsustainable. Look what we had to spend on covid. All borrowed money. This economy cannot be restored until america gets back to work and its us putting money back in the government instead of spending money we dont have. Joe biden has said that he would like to see a tax increase that is likely not to go over well on wall street given the other economic challenges that the nation faces, especially brought about by the pandemic. Do you see a tax increase in the works here . Is that going to depend on the Georgia Senate results . He has told us thats what he wants for the Economic Future but i think it does depend on the results in georgia, theres not going to be a tax increase. If its democrat senate, democrats will control all numbers are government and i think youll see that happen but its important to note that the middle class has never done better than with donald trump. Rising wages, low unemployment. There were more jobs across the country than we had people to fill those jobs, it was really remarkable. What brad said, its important to note the 28 trillion debt, add trillions more onto it, right now as we speak bitcoin is at 30,400 because people are concerned of all the printing going on and they want a safe haven for their money. The u. S. Currency has not given a safe haven. They see fit coin or crypto giving them security, that speaks volumes to how much debt we have and how much longer thats going to last. Judy, again, we dont know whos going to take control of the senate because of these two races that are still undecided and they are razor close. But if democrats do take control, if they win both of these Georgia Senate seats, there has been talk about joe biden trying to increase the numbers of Supreme Court justices and so forth. How radical would the change be you, do you think, under a Biden Administration if democrats control both houses of congress . I just dont see anything in joe bidens path or even his campaign statements that would suggest that we are going to get a radical agenda out of joe biden. This is the ultimate middle of the road player. This is a guy who knows how congress works, he knows whats possible, he knows what is clinically possible, i think you are going to see a real concentration on the most urgent problems affecting the country and that is covid, bringing back the 11 billion jobs, getting people back to work and, yes, eventually tackling the huge inequality through some kind of tax that has plagued america and the American Economy. I do not see any radical initiatives coming out of this administration or out of the u. S. Congress. They are waiting as we all are, to see how these two georgia races turn out and we been told that may be noon tomorrow east coast time. Im still trying to remember that it is wednesday. Noon today before we will know. We will check in with you again. Thank you both. It is wednesday. Just so everybody is on the same page. Early voting played a major role in this pair of runoffs. Over a third of all registered voters, thats more than 3 Million People. Now early voting is thought to primarily benefit democrats. Republicans had to turn out in full force. But did they . Well tell you that next as we await the final thoughts out of georgia. Still suffering today. God calls on people who believe in him to act on his word. Comfort ye, comfort my people. When i come here and i sit with lilia i realize what she needs right now is food. These elderly jews are weak and theyre sick. Theyre living on 2 a day which is impossible. This now, is how gods children are living. Take this time to send a survival food box to these forgotten jews. The International Fellowship of christians and jews urgently need your gift of 25 now to help provide one survival food box with all of the essentials they critically need for their diet for one month. 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Com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the services of the post office plus ups only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again. The Senate Georgia runoff did draw historical turnout. Conventional wisdom is that early votes favored democrats. So the key for republicans was to drive voters to the polls on election day. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has been pouring resources into these races but the party relied heavily on President Trump to rally his base and deliver a victory. Lets bring in charlie hurt, Washington Times opinion editor and the Fox News Contributor. Happy wednesday to you, charlie. Is it fair, we dont have the results yet, but is it fair to say that republican turnout on the election day was perhaps not as high as republicans had hoped it might be . Without a doubt. If republicans wind up losing one or both of these, the problem will be that they failed to get people to turn out. Look, this was a Record Number millions of dollars spent on this, the amount of media attention, if you add up the amount of Media Coverage the past 23 weeks first of all, the Silver Lining is the good folks of georgia can now turn their tv back on and not be bombarded with endless political ads. We should at least focus on that for a minute. But no one in georgia i didnt have their mind made up. Everybody knew what they thought of these candidates and knew where they stood and who would they would vote for. The only question was whether or not those people would be got to the polls, and so if republicans end up coming up short in one or both of them, itll be because they failed to get those people out. Obviously there was a tremendous ground game there for all candidates to get everybody out to the polls. I think it still obviously in the case of the purdue race, it appears we dont really we cant say for certain what that outcome of that is but we shall see. So there is this Campaign Fatigue factor that not a lot of people are talking about. But you know this. If you talk to a campaign strategist, every single one of them down the line will tell you that timing is everything. Right . There is a reason these races are time to peak november 3rd which was two months ago. You mentioned the half billion dollars in ads, the poor citizens of georgia could not turn on their tv last months without being bombarded without walltowall add coverage with these candidates. Is there a sentence either among the campaign or voters, do you think its, like, this has been played out for quite some time now, hard to muster up the energy and reserve it takes to go to the polls and vote yet again in just two months after this was supposed to be done . Especially for so many voters in georgia who were so disappointed in the outcome of the november election. Who were very suspicious about all of the questions that have been raised about the november election. Its really, really tough to get those people to get to the polls again. I think also, jillian, years from now well look back at this and perhaps one of the biggest mistakes was that the purdue campaign, the purdue campaign should put this away in novemb november. Thats the way ideally they should of worked. Obviously loeffler had a taller order. There were some 20 people in her race so it was going to be a whole lot tougher for her to do that. But purdue shouldve probably put this away in november and that wouldve at least spared of course that wouldve changed the entire dynamic because if purdue had won, he wouldnt have spent the last two months talking about how the entire future of the republic hinges on one of these two races. Quick last question for you, charlie. The candidates would have you believe that the gulf between a provoking victory here and a democrat victory is so wide that america will never be the same again. Do you buy that or is it like, well, weve heard this a million of times before . I get tired of hearing about how this election is the most important election. But i have to say that this is one of these rare instances where i actually do believe that it is all on the line largely because of how unusual the campaign was. Joe bidens campaign, there were a lot of the questions that he refused to answer during the campaign. Theres a lot of campaigning he simply didnt do. And so there is sort of a very limited mandate the democrats actually have from voters. But if they wind up with no mandate and all of the levers of power in washington, thats a pretty dangerous time if you are talking about a bunch of politicians. Whether its republicans or democrats. Believe the hype, thats the message from charlie early this morning. 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We dont yet know who is going to win and we dont know therefore who is going to control the senate but lets just imagine the democrats pull off a double victory. Again, im talking hypothetically here. We dont know the numbers. But Chuck Schumer would become majority leader. He famously said, first we win georgia can we change georgia, and we change the nation. What would a majority leader Chuck Schumer do in the u. S. Senate . By all accounts as majority leader, Chuck Schumer would follow through on his word. This is an opportunity democrats are not going to waste if they have control of both the house and the senate and the white house commits would be the first time in a decade and i do not think that democrats are going to moderate. I think they are going to move forward incredibly quickly. Whats interesting about this is that while this would be a blessing for the Biden Administration, it would also potentially put the president elect at a slightly untenable situation. Remember, he ran as a moderate but he would lead a party that would walk more aggressive change when democrats are in control of both branches of government. He might have run as a moderate but he chose as his Vice President ial candidate the most liberal member of the senate. How do you equate those two . Something we tried to figure out in november and i think its something thats going t to to find that his first 100 days of office but the first couple of years of his administration. Senator harris, she knows the senate very well. She has colleagues there, i think she would be a voice to biden to go big whereas if republicans were to maintain control of the senate, then it would be much more negotiations between biden and majority leader mcconnell. Instead, i think democrats are going to be lobbying the incoming president saying that this is the time to go big and there are a number of things on the wish list at this point. Philip wegmann of real clear politics. Philip, thank you. Have a good one. Final runoff results are now streaming in. 99 of the vote in both parties have been counted. How is this for a nailbiter . Its still too close to call. Live coverage continues next. 2 senate seat still up in the air at this hour and one state decides the fate of the nation for the next four years. Neck and neck with 99 of the votes counted this hour. The control of the u. S. Senate still remains unclear. Im Gillian Turner in washington. Its great to be with everybody at home. Great to be with you, john. Great to be with you, julian. Historic because of the record voter turnout and the cost. Well over half a billion dollars spent in the races in georgia and unprecedented because two blue candidates are giving to seated republicans a good run for their money and what was a solidly red state. Raphael warnock and jon ossoff hoping to unseat Kelly Loeffler and david purdue. They will soon both have command of both houses of congress as well as the white house. A dual republican victory on the other and matt could impact president elect Joe Bidens Administration from day one. Yet more Political Drama is on the immediate horizon. A joint session of congress will convene later today to officially confirm joe biden as an expresident of the United States but there is observatio dozens of republican lawmakers are blocking the certification of vote. Outside, the president supporters are protesting results insisting the election was rigged. We are joined by Charles Watson with breaking developments on the result. Good morning, gillian. Vote counting operation here slowly but shortly wrapping up, you can hear the sounds on the operation systems over here, shortly wrapping up right now. You can see a lot of the election workers that were here today have packed it up and started going home. We were told by the director of elections here that about 7500 ballots at about 112,000 absentee ballots remain to be counted. Election workers will return here at about 8 30 later this morning to continue the count. Elsewhere in the state we are told by georgie Election Officials that there is still outstanding and 15 counties leaning heavily democratic. Election officials also tell fox news based on the large numbers of absentee ballots that were received in fulton and the called county it is possible well get a result some time this morning. But right now that is not likely at this point. Throughout the day weve heard from both parties, democrats and republicans voiced confidence about the voters they were able to turn out. But right now this race is very close. We just heard from senator Kelly Loeffler and her opponent Raphael Warnock not too long ago. Heres what they had to say. We are going to fight for this president so im asking for every single georgian, every single american, stay in the fight with us. We are going to keep fighting for you. This is about protecting the american dream. Never going to stop fighting for this country, for the american dream. We were told we couldnt win this election. But tonight, we proved that with hope, hard work, and the people by our side, anything is possible. They must already be an inspiration to some young person who is trying to grasp and grab hold of the american dream. You heard from the candidates in Fulton County, there were some complaints from observers about being kept too far away from the vote counting it. That issue was taken up with a state judge who ordered Fulton County Election Officials to rearrange this room and move these metal barriers behind me a closer to the election workers so observers could see the counting and action. Election workers will return here to the Georgia World Congress center about 8 30 this morning to finish counting about 75,000 absentee ballots that are outstanding here in Fulton County. Thank you. The results in georgia are still too close to call. But with the balance of power in the senate at stake, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are on the edge of their seats. Meanwhile the Electoral College gears up to certify its president ial Election Results calling a biden victory. A coalition of g. O. P. Senators saying that so fast and causing a rift among republicans many of whom disagree on the tactic. Lucas tomlinson live in washington with more on that. At least 12 republican senators say itll challenge president President Bidens victory. Marsha blackburn wants a commission to study the Election Results. We have spent the last four years hearing the democrats say, illegitimate election, illegitimate president. Weve had the russia hoax, weve had riots in the streets, weve had impeachment, weve had all these things. Its not good for the country. So lets have our commission, lets give them ten days, lets settle it. Reverend warnock leads by 1 , spoke earlier today. Im going to the senate to work for all of georgia no matter who you will cast your vote for in this election, in this moment in American History come a washington has a choice to make. In fact, all of us have a choice to make. Will we continue to divide, distract, and this honor one another, or will we love our neighbors as we love ourselves. President trump tweeted moments ago, if Vice President mike pence comes through for us we will win the presidency. A process not approved by their state legislatures, which it must be. Mike can send it back. Twitter disputes that claim. The New York Times reporting that Vice President pence told the president he did not have the power to block congressional certification. The president released a statement saying, quote, regarding comments Vice President pence maine today is fake news bear the Vice President and i are in total agreement and the Vice President has the power to act. Not all republicans agreed that the president should be challenging the results of the election. We have spent the past four years hearing the democrats say illegitimate election, illegitimate president. Weve had the russia hoax, weve had riots in the streets, weve had impeachment, weve had all these things. Its not good for the country. Lets have our commission. The Electoral College certification begins at 1 00 p. M. This afternoon. The process expected to go late in the night, perhaps into thursday as well. Sean . More fireworks ahead. Lucas tomlinson from washington. Thanks. Ahead of his appearance later today in a joint session of congress, wants him to challenge the electoral vote and thats likely to set off some major fireworks in capitol hill. Brad blakeman, former assistant to president george w. Bush, Judith Miller, and former wisconsin congressman and Fox News Contributor sean duffy. Good morning to all of you. Thank you for staying up so late. We really appreciate it. Throw this out to you first. The president has been goading mike pence over the last couple of days, wants us to join the challenge to decertify the Electoral College results. Take a listen to what white house officials said today. Said pence taking a studious approach to his job or hes gone through the electoral count asked several times, he is red legal opinions, consulted with outside experts on the subject matter. The Vice President will follow the law. He will act to fidelity of the law and the constitution. So can you read the tea leaves for us . What do you think the Vice President is going to do later today, brad . I think hes going to do what he is authorized to do and thats to be a presiding officer on what is typically a ceremonial act certifying the election from the states. I think what you are going to see is some drama. Youll see republicans rightfully so airing their grievances as weve seen happen in our country before. Going to have House Republicans matched up with Senate Republicans who are going to challenge states one by one and retired to their respective chambers in order to debate that. Thats a healthy thing, thats making a record. I think look, pence is going to do what the constitution authorizes and directs him to do and nothing more. That means that he is powerless to do anything beyond those powers. Which means hell be a presiding officer. He will not be one in order to change rules or make up rules as he goes. His die is cast and he will be basically presiding over a ceremony and also the challenges that will be made. Sean, as a former lawmaker, do you agree with that assessment . Do you agree the constitution gives the Vice President the ability to essentially oversee the counting of the vote, and thats it . You cannot go beyond that . Listen, i think the authority is really in the senators themselves and the house members and they are the ones theyd have to object, make the arguments and theyd have to vote. I think that spot on. I thought it was a great clip from Marsha Blackburn where marcia says and i agree with this that donald trump at four years of complete harassment from firstly russia hoax and the impeachment, the womens march, they never left the man alone to actually do his job and now democrats go, everyone should play nice, we should be on the same page and play ball together. When i go to the grocery store, gillian, i get countless people who come up to me that believe the election is stolen. Lets actually have a review. Lets have an audit. We have absentee voting, voting by mail, we have no voter i. D. I hate to use mexico as an example, mexico has voter i. D. Peer mexico doesnt let people mail in ballots. We have to go in and vote and they understand even in mexico that makes elections ripe for fraud, the first bill the House Democrats put out is to solidify these rules that you dont have to show an i. D. This is ridiculous. We have to have sound election laws that make sure that we all have confidence in the outcome. You mention senator blackburn who is part of this coalition who wants to challenge the results later today. She talked about how democrats have been resisting President Trump from the outset, they went after him, prosecuted him in the russia investigation and they can need to do so even after they found no evidence of collusion. That said, sean, it kind of makes it sound like this whole effort now by republicans to challenge the Electoral College is some kind of political retribution and that doesnt seem like the answer either because then we are just going around in this hamster wheel. Its not retribution. In my state we have voter i. D. Laws. Liberal counties used covid to what we are going to do is absently set aside the voter i. D. And used covid to say that everyone cant show up so well go with people can mail in ballots. Thats not the way our legislatures wrote the law. There is real concern. This isnt retribution, this is to take a look. The vote might not change in the house and senate but we can have good evidence to say what are the best reforms we need to again have evidence in our elections which we dont right now. Lets hold it for one second, weve got a fox news election alert coming in fresh off the press. Fox news decision desk project that georgia democrat Rafael Warnock will unseat republican senator kelly an loeffler keepig alive democratic hopes of taking control of the chamber, provided that warnocks colleague john also can unseat purdue. The ossofpurdue race as of right now is still too close to call. Lets bring back the panel, i want reaction all around. Judy, break it down. What does this mean . Big news. This is a good night for President Biden, a good night for democrats. We still have the second race outstanding. But it looks as if joe biden is going to be in a better position to accomplish at least some of his agenda then he was at the beginning of today. Look, i think the race, and well know later after we have a chance to interview georgia voters, but it seems to me that the president really undermined republicans in georgia, he republicaundermined to the two s by putting them in a very difficult position, his call to the georgia elections officials, 18 calls before the election official finally responded. If youve listened at all in that tape, it was kind of shocking in an almost mafia don like fashion, no pun intended, to get the votes that were not there for republican candidates. I think that voters were turned off by this, despite the huge amount of money that was spent on this election in political advertising. Lets talk about the balance of power, brad. Now with this addition of i guess senator elect robin warnock, weve got 49 seats to the democrats, 50 seats to the republicans, that outstanding race, the ossofpurdue race still unknown. Does that shipped anything around, even right now in the immediate . I dont think so. I think all eyes are on purdues race. If we keep an eye on the majority, the majority it keeps an eye on the senate, the chairmanships. Even the one seat majority is a majority and a tremendous amount of power and leverage that goes along with that. Of course, if we lose that, there is still a 5050 senate with Kamala Harris coming in to break a tie. I do not think joe biden is in any better shape with one then he would with two. There is still a break, if you will on the power and restraint that the senate will have over the administration. Sean, i know this was not the news you are hoping for in the first race, but talk to me about now that we can kind of start doing the postmortem especially in this one race, talk to me what you think some of the logjams were. A lot of republicans, voters and lawmakers, really thought that President Trump rallying in dalton monday night was going to help carry both these candidates across the finish line. People at that rally where pumped up. I remember a Steve Harrigan reporting live from the rally as it was going on saying he has never seen Trump Supporters angrier, more fired up, more ready to come out and vote. What happened . I think democrats obviously had a good night. When we do the postmortem, you are going to see that there was a massive africanamerican voter turnout which was huge for reverend warnock. If my numbers were right, its a 30 increase from the november election. That margin, i think democrats had about 90 turnout and republicans mightve been slightly less than that and thats going to be the story that is written here and i think President Trump did a great job. You needed his voters to come out and support his two Senate Candidates and obviously they did. But in the warnock race, they didnt come out in the numbers that were needed. I would just note that republicans normally do very well in these runoffs. Itll be interesting to see how the purdue name goes. The purdue name is the Gold Standard in georgia. Now secretary of agriculture, a lot of democrats like him. He has a little bit of wind to his back compared to Kelly Loeffler. I know it is tight. Will check back with you again later in the hour. Stick with us, stand by. We have just learned that Raphael Warnock has unseated senator Kelly Loeffler. Meanwhile President Trump is not giving up his fight with the president ial election. Did a leak phone call days before the georgia runoff end up turning off some Republican Voters . We are going to debate that ne next. Fox news election alert, the fox news projection desk predicts Raphael Warnock will unseat republican senator Kelly Loeffler giving fox news a 49 senate seat and keeping alive democratic hopes of taking control of the chamber provided that warnock democratic colleague john also defeats republican david purdue. That race not decided yet. It is still too close to call. Lets go back to our panel. Sean duffy. There is been something of a circular firing squad among republicans in georgia lately. President trump even calling on Governor Kemp to leave office, to be removed from office. All that criticism the president has directed at the republican elected officials, did that affect the outcome in these races, do you think . Listen, i dont think it was helpful. Every candidate, every politician has their constituency and no doubt the governor does. Those voters of the governor were angry with the president s harsh tone with him. I think it had a little bit of play. I do not know if that was the main factor. Half a billion dollars were spent in this race. There were ads all over georgia and spent all around georgia. Everyone around the state i think they were voting on the facts and the records on each of the candidates in the fight between the president and the state and elected officials i do not think were in the forefront of peoples minds. From the standpoint of republicans, brad, you have a state that hasnt voted for a democratic president since 1992. Now georgia voted in joe biden and has voted in at least one democrat u. S. Senator. Whats going on . Republicans, i think at the end of the day will be the ones who lost this election for themselves. Just days before this election, the Republican Senate refused to deliver further covid relief. I think that had a serious effect on the Election Results. In addition, republicans are seeking now to overturn the certification of a president ial election in georgia. I dont think thats helpful. There are a lot of things that republicans did that were selfinflicted wounds, if you will, that at the end of the day people are shaking their heads and wonder why this was done at such a critical moment when the Senate Majority was in the balance . On that point, President Trump was the one beating the drum for the 2,000 stimulus checks that Mitch Mcconnell and some other senators have been opposing, both of the republican Senate Candidates have come out in favor of the bigger numbers, but that 600 figure was negotiated in part by steven mnuchin, President Trumps own secretary of the treasury. Talk about the lefthand not knowing what the right hand is doing there. Its reflective of the payoff that has really characterized the goingson in washington ever since the election. President trump has really been missing in action and when he has been in action, he has undermined his own candidates and the Republican Party. Its almost as if hes brought a wrecking ball to the georgia elections so that the democrats could win, endorsing a bigger check, forcing republicans who are normally endorsing fiscal restraint to endorse a larger check. Nancy pelosi was totally in favor of Donald Trumps proposal to expand the stimulus checks from 600 to 2,000. Unfortunately a lot of republicans were not an Donald Trumps Election Night, preElection Night calls to Election Officials, that tape that was leaked with the conversations in which basically the president asked, bagged the republic in election official to deliver votes that werent there for him, all of this went down i think terribly badly with independents. And thats the problem. Sean is correct, the president fired up his base in that rally the night before the election. But the base was not enough to deliver a victory in georgia and thats an astonishing historic reversal and a change. Raphael warnock we project is going to the senate. The all subpurdue race still close to call. Check in with you again in a b bit. Before biden won the state of georgia in november no democratic presenter candidate has carried georgia since 1992. The entire Political Landscape of the state has really transformed. What has changed . The reliably red peach state has shades of purple. Thats next. You remember rick, her neighbor . Sure, hes the 76yearold guy who still runs marathons, right . Sadly, not anymore. What . You mean mmhm. Just like that. Wow. So sudden. Um. Were not about to have the we need Life Insurance conversation again, are we . woman no. Were having the were getting coverage so we dont have to worry about it conversation. So youre calling about the 9. 95 a month plan from Colonial Penn . I am. We put it off long enough. 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Georgia will be a majorityminority state, any party that want to be successful in the state has to reckon what it means to address the issue of health care, jobs, and of justice. Stacey abrams burst on the scene a couple of years ago. It was a signal that georgia was perhaps not the republican stronghold it had reliably and spin for upwards of two decades . Now shes helped the Peach State Senate seats, the other still too close to call at this hour. Lets bring back the panel with us. Early into these morning hours, brad, judith, sean, lets talk about the Stacey Abrams factor here. Sean, ill come to you first. As we all know, there was historic early voter turnouts. 1 Million People in person before tuesday. Does Stacey Abrams get all the credit here . There was huge early voting and the organization took place to get the votes out was impressive and Stacey Abrams was the driving force behind that. Republicans had to have a huge turnout yesterday to overcome the early votes and in the warnock race, doesnt sound like they had the early voter turnout and i look at Stacey Abrams, i disagree with her on policies. Shes promoting radical socialist ideas, but on the organization front, she totally delivered for democrats yesterday. So, judy, two major hurdles for republicans. They needed somewhere between 800,000 and a million voters to show up today in order to erase those gains by democrats that we just talked about, whatever percentage of those early votes belong to them. They also needed their voters to overcome their beliefs prevalent by Republican Voters or at least president Trump Supporters that the election was rigged, there was no point to go out to vote anyway. I think you are right, gillian. Stacey abrams deserves a lot of credit for undermining that republican argument about the fraudulent nature of the election. She made this turnout an issue of faith in the election and a vote for economic progress and she concentrated again and again to her organization a fair fight on the 600 stimulus checks, the fact that democrats have consistently supported larger amounts of money for working people. Its the economy, its the economy, and her own race helped because she helped motivate other black voters to turn out which in georgia was absolutely crucial. Brad, Something Else abrams is getting credit for is really delivering on the black vote in georgia. So far tonight we know the turnout has been tremendous. Africanamerican boats have so far exceeded what they were in round numbers and in percentages back in november. There is no doubt that Stacey Abrams is a force to be reckoned with in georgia but beyond georgia shes a National Figure now. Shes going to seek to replicate this around the country and in other races. Its going to be interesting to see what her next move will be. There is no doubt that she has had tremendous success in her organizational ability to micr microtarget, to understand who needs to be motivated, to get them out to vote, and they did. Also to her credit, i understand she was microtargeting youth, some of which were not even of age when they were targeted but knowing they would come of age for this vote. They were very smart in their targeting and it seems to work in their benefit. We dont know whether ossof or purdue gets the race tonight but lets play the hypothetical game just for a moment and talk about what a democrat led senate and the new congress is likely to look like. I want to pull up for you on the screen which democrats are likely to take the key choice chairmanships in the new congress if the democrats sweep this thing. Senate intel chair will likely go to mark warner, Foreign Relations likely to robert menendez, and Bernie Sanders of course will run the budget committee. Talk to us about what that looks like for republicans. Isnt all doom and gloom . Is there any chance of pushing any part of the republican platform forward in the new congress if this is the case . Let me throw you a curveball, gillian. The one list i didnt see was joe manchin. I bet you tonight that Mitch Mcconnell this morning is going to be having big conversations to get him to change partisans. Hes talked about that 2 three years ago. I bet that pressure is on right now because joe manchin will be in a tough place with the Progressive Liberal Movement coming out of the house and senate, doesnt fit the values of west virginia. The rebel can the party is a better home for him. With that said, if you look at the house, 329, its a tough majority that nancy pelosi has. You have a lot of democrats who come from republican leading states, going to have tough races in the first off election of a new president and they do not want to be as radical as aoc and nancy pelosi. I think republicans have the ability to peel off a few of the democrats in the house but also with a 50 50 split with Kamala Harris per siding as the deciding vote, its going to be tough to get much done in the senate as well. Again, i cant tell you but i think its going to be tough because the margins are now so tight. Even if the dems provide the tiebreaking vote in the senate, theyll still need to get the 60 votes to overcome the filibust filibuster, thats one thing republicans have going for them. Thanks so much, panel. We will check back with you so soon. President trumps role in the georgia runoff is under the microscope. Some accuse him of splitting the Republican Party. Others say hes firing up the base. Its become clear democrats have picked up at least one of the two runoff seats in georgia with fox news projecting water raphaelwarnock will unseat Kelly Loeffler prebetween jon ossoff and david produced no too close to call. 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Did this stance hurt the republicans . For more insight we go to our panel. In particular when it comes to mail in voting, the president timed at that rally on monday night, the night before the election saying go out and vote tomorrow. But in the meantime democrats had already flooded the accounting offices with mail in ballots. Did the president , did republicans miss an opportunity here to stress, you know, doing it the easy way . You know, the same thing could be said perhaps about the general election. Last year, did we miss an opportunity with mail in ballots . I think we did. I think we should of been more aggressive in getting people, especially republicans and independents to vote by mail. Voting by mail is not going away after covid. If anything its going to increase and thats why its so very important that congress tackle National Uniform voting standards so we have some uniformity and surely as we move to more mail in or virtual voting, there is a lot of things that are going to be sad after this election, both in this election cycle and the general election cycle we just went through, lessons to be learned. Lets see if we learned our lessons. If democrats are running the show in washington, judy, and we dont yet know what the results are in that ossofpurdue race, but right now its looking very close. Its going to be a 5049 senate for sure, if democrats are running the entire show are they going to be motivated to revamp the election law in any significant way . Once again, sean, i thank you very much depends on the signals that joe biden sends in terms of his own priority. I think joe biden is going to be focused on the economy, on pandemic, on the crises he faces. I think voting reform is going to be way, way down on his agenda and i think thats true for most democrats. I think you can look at centrist measures and his moderate program that he will be focusing on that and the republicans are going to have to focus on clawing their way back into being republicans rather than the party of trump. Sean, i know you talked to a lot of the former colleagues on the hill. Is there an appetite, concern among republicans that mail in voting and some of the changes that came with the covid epidemic have permanently hurt the partys chances . I think what they believe is when you have mail in ballots, without voter i. D. , its right for fraud, which is concerning for all of them. They want to make sure if you are going to vote early you should do that in person and you should show an i. D. Thats just common sense. Donald trump was remarkable for so many americans. Low unemployment, rising wages, the gap between the haves and the has not closed. The fact he fought china and looked out for middle america. These results were remarkable and unified the Republican Party around a set of ideas. The problem we have in the country is democrats have become so radical. They are not afraid of saying they are socialists. I would argue that ossof and warnock are actually communists and the fact you have these radical policies, this isnt the party of jfk any longer, this is the they lead to poverty, less income, less wage growth. That concerns republicans and they are going to fight really hard to make sure they preserve freedom and pushback on socialism. Sean, judith, brad, well check back in with you in just a bit. Thank you. Candidates the cycle turn to social media and relied on one platform in particular to reach out to young voters. We will tell you how tiktok is shaping the future of Political Races coming up next. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. Welcome back. Fox news canal project that democrat Rafael Warnock will unseat republican senator Kelly Loeffler. Loeffler however is not conceding just yet. The race between jon ossoff and david purdue meanwhile is still razorthin, too close to call this hour. During these races, young voters came in the spotlight like ever before. The enthusiasm we saw from the demographic in november helped lead to the first democrat president ial nominee winning the peach state since 1992 and that same wave enthusiasm seemed to roll right on into the Senate Runoffs as democrats picked up with many points of social media platforms, specifically tiktok. As prime influencers. Lets bring in Senior Reporter of the hill, thank you for joining us. You say that jon ossoff in particular was very effective at harnessing the power and influence of tiktok in this cycle. How did he do that . Well, ossof knows how to go virals. Addressing student debt, and forgiving it. And also he has talked about finding ways to empower people, motivate them. He was helped by tiktok influencers who reached out to their own followers, a group of tiktok influencers who held a rally for the democratic ticket for getting out the vote and they reached out to an audience of about 5 million followers so that seem to have a big influence. That platform has really exploded in popularity among people ages 1622 and that is a demographic that traditionally has been very difficult for campaigns to infiltrate. Ossof was able to playing videos that were a little bit quirky, caught fire, and got a lot of eyeballs. Is not a little bit ironic that while President Trump and republican lawmakers were laser focused on facebook and twitter after they censored conservative speech, while that was going on, democrats were focused elsewhere making inroads on tiktok. Ive hardly hear conservatives mention tiktok this cycle. The influence of that social media platform has come to the floor as weve seen the influence that Younger Voters are having on this race. Its estimated that between 90,120,000 voters who did not vote in the november 3rd general election voted in these runoffs and that group skewed root young and skewed nonwhite. So i think the story that we are seeing play out here tonight is that its not so much trump hurting republicans as its the democrats ability to motivate voters in a special election, and run off after the general election, something they have not been very good at turned out to be quite effective. How did they do that . Was the reason behind that . Your panel talk about Stacey Abrams being very effective in motivating voters, but the tiktok influencers and the ability of jon ossoff who is much younger than david purdue the play in that medium seems to be a factor as well. Quickly before i let you go, tell me about the content in these videos. What is it that voters between 1622 are looking for that say ossof delivered for them . I think what they are looking for is a fresh face. Youth. Hes a goodlooking guy. Hes a guy who seems to play into that image centric media youth. Weve got to leave it there but thanks so much for staying up with us. We appreciate it. Thanks for having me. That wraps up our second hour of coverage but stay tuned, georgias Historic Senate races are not fully decided yet. Also be talking about the congressional certification vote due tomorrow. Live georgia have spoken and fox news is projecting Rafael Warnock has unseated Kelly Leffler. The other race remains too close to call. Kelly left for has not conceded. Control of the Senate Remains uncertain for now. Im john scott in new york. Shannon we have continuing live coverage of the Senate Runoff, the most consequential senate race in recent history. Rafael warknock will be representing a state that hasnt elected a democratic senator in over two decades but that is not the only race that might put the nation on a new path. At this hour Democrat John ossoff is locked in in the battle for the other senate seat held by Republican David Perdue. If both democrats ultimately prevail it will flip the senate. And gain control of congress allowing president elect joe biden to make some major headway on his agenda. John this Political Drama reaching a climax is congress will meet later today for the final count of the Electoral College votes, the last step in confirming joe biden is the next president of the United States but some republican lawmakers hope to block his certification while outside the capital Trump Supporters rally and protest prompting washingtons mayor to make an urgent request for deployment of the national guard. The outcome of one Georgia Senate race remains in limbo but his feet clear the battle for power will continue beyond georgia in the coming days. Lets head to the heart of georgia where Charles Watson is joining us from atlanta. Reporter Election Officials in georgia tell fox news it was possible we could see some results in these races at some point tonight, that is the case in at least one of these races, democrat Rafael Warnock considered the winner, incumbent senator Kelly Leffler in their senate race, warnock will be the first africanamerican senator to serve in washington, we heard from him earlier this evening, he sounded very confident about his chances. We were told we couldnt win this election, but tonight we proved that with hope, hard work and the people by our side, anything is possible. Must be an inspiration to some young person who is trying to grasp and grab hold of the american dream. We will fight for this president so im asking every single georgian, every single american stay in the fight with us. We are going to keep fighting for you. Reporter you heard from senator leffler. I must mention she has not conceded yet. On the other side the race between john ossoff and perdues razor tight but we could get more answers how the race will turn out a little later today. Right now vote counting has concluded for the night in Fulton County. Election officials tell us they have 4000 absentee ballots that need to be uploaded. Additionally we are told counting will continue later today to the georgia Congress Center at 8 30 this morning so they can continue counting those 4000 outstanding absentee ballots but hopefully we will learn more about where this race stands between democrat ossoff and david perdue as the day goes forward. John thank you. Jillian we are down to the wire and historic election, democrats inching closer to taking control of the senate. With 49 seats after Rafael Warnocks victory. The Electoral College years up to certify president ial Election Results later today. Growing number of republican senators are planning to object. Lisa tomlinson is tracking reaction in washington. What is the mood like right now . Reporter the mood for democrats, a lastsecond victory. Senator elect reverend warnock is projected when a similar fashion. In 2022, he spoke earlier had of the election being called in his favor. Im going to the senate to work for all georgia no matter who you cast your vote for in this election, in this moment in American History washington has a choice to make. All of us have a choice to make. When we continue to divide, distract and dishonor one another or will we love our neighbors as we love ourselves . Reporter donald trump tweeted of mike pence comes through for us we will win the presidency. Many states want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect and fraudulent numbers and process not approved by the state legislatures which it must be. Mike can send it back. The New York Times reports Vice President pence told the president he did not have the power to block congressional certification, the president released a statement saying, quote, New York Times reports regarding mike pences comments is fake news. He never said that, the pretty Vice President and i are in agreement the Vice President has power to act. Not all republicans agree the president should be challenging results of the election. I think he is on very unsound constitutional grounds and we would be setting a dangerous precedent which i fear the day when the democrats control the congress and begin throwing out republican electors and decorative this precedent we will be establishing tomorrow as their justification. The literal College Certification begins on capitol hill at 1 00 pm this afternoon. There will be challenges, the process is expected to go late into the night, perhaps into thursday. It has been 20 years since both Georgia Senate seats were blue. The midterms or two years away, the president s party and 26 seats in the house and four in the senate. A ways to go before then. We are close to a wrap on this turbulent political season. Hopefully we will know in the coming hours. Thanks so much. For more on what we can expect in the next 24 hours lets turn to steve mulroy, author of rethinking us election law, unscrewing the system. Thanks for being with us in what is an interesting night already. Does Vice President pence have the power to reject the electors that are submitted by the states, thats the argument he and the president have been having . Know he does not have that power coming nothing in the constitution gives the Vice President that power. The proceeding we are going to be seeing this afternoon is done pursuant to a federal law called the electoral counteract. Pursuant to better than the normal roles of congress the most the role mike pence has is to preside over the joint session which is designed to certify the final president ial the. In that role he can will on procedural objections, he can decide which objections are proper and can go to debate and which arent but other than that he has largely a ceremonial role. Reporter the president is saying as we heard in the tweet that Lucas Tomlinson just read, complaining that state legislatures are supposed to make election law and in this particular election much of it was done by local officials in contravention of state law. Does the president have a leg to stand on . That is one legal theory that might have some validity and you might see that gain more ground in future elections, there are four Supreme Court justices that buy into this notion that you cant have state courts or state executive officials changing election procedures in the middle of the game because they usurp the Plenary Authority state legislatures have over president ial elections under article 2 of the constitution. However that year he has been advanced in multiple courts in multiple states and at least as it applies to this election has been rejected by all judges including federal judges that are republican and trump appointees, really theyre just doesnt appear to be enough evidence to suggest these changes to the president ial election procedures that are at issue changed enough votes to change the outcome in even one of the swing states, to change the overall president ial election. The certification of this Electoral College vote is a perfunctory affair, sounds like tomorrows is going to be very drawn out in part because of the challenges to some of the states electors late submitted, a challenge being led by senator ted cruz of texas and a dozen or so other senators allied with him, do you expect they are going to be able to get any of these votes tossed out or get that Election Commission established which they say they would like to have . It seems unlikely. Because they have house of representatives members and senators they will be able to raise the objection the floor debate in each of the chambers. They will be able to bring their concerns forward. But under the electoral challenge act in order for it to change the certified result in any one particular state you would need a vote of both the u. S. Senate and the u. S. House, both of them and since the house is controlled by democrats it seems extremely unlikely that this is going anywhere. One other procedural point i will mention that hasnt gotten enough attention is under the electoral challenge act congress has to accept as conclusive the results certified by any state if they got there certification in by the socalled safe harbor deadline which this year was december 8th. Allstate met that deadline except wisconsin so the exception of wisconsin is a pretty reasonable argument this objection is not procedurally sound but putting that aside even if that objection goes forward you need the house on board with donald trump as well as the senate and given the democrats control the house it doesnt seem likely. John thanks for sharing your thoughts. Jillian the 2020 election season nearing its end, one undecided racing georgia will determine who holds the senate and that is the entire congress. Also a joint session of congress will kick off a few hours from now. Lawmakers will vote for the certification of Electoral College votes. Joining us is brad blakeman, Deputy Assistant to george w. Bush, judy miller at the Manhattan Institute for policy research and former wisconsin congressman and Fox News Contributor sean duffy. I will come to you first. Republicans have said throughout the election season about these georgia runoffs that the fate of america hangs in the balance with these two races, that it is a challenge between socialism and capitalism, between small and big government. Americans it siding how much control they want the government to have over their lives. If we look at the results from the one race that is now in, left her has been in cedar will be once she concedes if she is planning to do that. Are we to take from that that americans are voting in favor of socialism and huge government . I dont think you can say that based on the race in georgia. What you can say about this historic race is voters were extremely motivated to turn out to legitimate the president ial election and i think if we see a democratic sweep in georgia and as you point out we still dont know that but it is certainly looking that way, you will see the American People saying enough delay, enough denial of the obvious which is joe biden won this election handily by 6 million votes, lets get on with the business of the republic, lets elect john ossoff and stop Mitch Mcconnell from being able to veto proposals that come up from the democratic side of the house. I think what you have really seen is an endorsement of what biden is trying to do which is to promote a centrist moderate platform for america that advances the interests of the middle class and reclaims the economic ground we have lost because of the pandemic. I will bet you 100 you disagree that joe bidens platform is moderate and reasonable and the nice things judy said. The problem is i listened to the democrat d bates and i heard the things joe biden talked about. He might have been a moderate 30 years ago but isnt today. They talked about open borders, universal healthcare, free college, the green new deal, a radical set of proposals joe biden has fully embraced. The question is what will happen in the senate . Are democrats if they win the second seat in georgia will they overturn the filibuster rule . The filibuster rule will make sure republicans have some power in the senate. If that rule goes way democrats will have complete control. If you look to the house side, democrats got rid of the minority procedure called the motion to recommit taking away all rights of the minority in the house. I see democrats trying to have complete control of washington so they can push forward this agenda and most of the middle of america doesnt agree with where democrats want to take the country. We will sit back and watch but this is pretty radically left. Jillian i will give you the last word. What do you think . I agree with sean. The Democratic Party as joe biden knew it has passed, he will be between a rock and a hard place, he will be pulled by his Vice President , warnock is no centrist, listen to his speeches and the debates in this election, joe biden has his hands full trying to hurt his own cats and they will pull him so far left and that is where the republicans come in and joe manchin could be the best thing that ever happened to the Republican Party in our country to put the brakes on the more radical agenda items democrats have been putting forth not only in the general election but also in bidens cabinet. I am sure the bidens have dogged but maybe they have a cat. Any of you know . Two dogs. Jillian thank you so much. Back to the other side. Todd a dog was involved in joe biden fracturing his foot. Donald trump using the georgia runoff to revive claims that the election was rigged. 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Jillian donald trump remains committed to the claim that the president ial election was rigged and the key issue ahead of yesterdays georgia runoff. Both candidates are echoing the president s claims was one of them, senator kelly left her, is out and Republican David Perdue is in a razor thin fight with john ossoff. Should be expect more legal challenges ahead . Mark smith is Kings College senior fellow and constitutional law attorney. Thanks for staying up late with this was what are the odds there is some kind of legal opposition mounted in the aftermath of the two runoff races, when in which we know the results, Kelly Leffler has yet to concede that fox news projects Rafael Warnock is in. I think the odds of their being a legal challenges almost 100 regardless of who wins or loses and theres two reasons why you see lawsuits a legal dispute after virtually all american elections now and that is because these elections are very close so theres a good chance that if you have litigation legal challenge theres a chance it could affect the outcome. In 2008 republican norm coleman ran for the senate and was winning on Election Night but after a series of legal battles democratic senator how franken won that race. Sometimes lawsuits and Legal Proceedings in these elections can change the outcome but beyond that keep in mind these lawsuits can also give rise to future reform of the election system if you go back to 2018 in georgia, stacy abrams ran for governor and lost but after that race there was a series of lawsuits, legal and political debates about whether or not that election was run the right way and there were changes between 2018 and today and these elections today. One wonders if there was a change that occurred that actually materially affected the outcome of the Senate Runoff seats. Democrats have been saying for months Donald Trumps legal challenges to the 2020 president ial election are harmful, dangerous, undercutting democracy, unconstitutional, but you just hit on an interesting point which is sometimes legal action affects lasting, worthwhile change which is what the republican senators who are part of this group that will challenge the results tomorrow by asking for a 10 day reassessment of the vote are saying they are trying to do. That is right. Legal challenges and lawsuits dont just have the effect of trying to impact the parties involved. Often you bring Public Interest lawsuits with the goal of changing things politically. It happens all the time in the United States so even if the lawsuits donald trump and his allies brought in georgia and these other states do not succeed on the merits theres a good chance they will score political points and give rise to political change that would be favorable to the election system or republicans or what not. I agree there is a long history in american politics of lawsuits and legal challenges being used not just as tools to winning lawsuits but also tools for changing american political life. Jillian the latest fox news polling showed that 10 of voters who support donald trump believe that the election was in some way mismanaged or fraudulent or rigged. That is 10 of 74 million americans. Is there a legal route to remedy this mistrust . Is there an answer in the courts . At this point it would be no. There been a series of lawsuits brought to the United States Supreme Court and so far no American Court has been willing to step in and hold a trial or anything like that. There are a lot of reasons that may be the case but today on capitol hill there will be the opportunity for a legal political debate to take place were constitutional and other legal arguments can be made by the sitting senator, members of the house of representatives and mike pence about how the president ial election was run in november of 2020. Sometimes political arguments and legal arguments blend together and it will be a chance to raise constitutional legal arguments on capitol hill as part of the political process because constitutional issues dont just get raised in court but in the political space because all politicians and judges swear an oath to the u. S. Constitution and have to uphold it. Jillian leave it there, thanks for sharing your perspective on this, we appreciate it. 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Senate writing on the results of georgia with democratic candidate Rafael Warnock projected to beat incumbent republican senator Kelly Leffler. She has not conceded the race. All eyes are on ossoff versus purdue. Florida republican senator marco rubio putting it in perspective in an opinion article on foxnews. Com on monday writing, quote, if democrats are successful in the georgia runoff elections on tuesday House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer will have the power to enact the radical left socialist agenda that has become mainstream in the Democratic Party. Green new deal, socialized medicine, unaccountable bureaucrats in washington, europeanstyle taxes on american industry, radical regulations that will harm Small Businesses and capitulation to the Chinese Communist party will all be on the agenda. Lets discuss some of that with our next guest, former 2000 a Clinton Campaign advisor and Fox News Contributor, Lloyd Matheson as a republican strategist and former chief of staff utah senator mike lee. Thanks for being with us in the we hours of this wednesday morning what do you think of senator rubios comments . I have to start by saying congratulations to senator electra phil warknock. Hes made history and this is something we should all recognize and celebrate regardless of which side of the aisle you are on and we should give that victory. Where we are moving forward with john ossoff, very likely to be winning this race, we now have an opportunity to make sure biden has the mandate to deliver on all the promises that he made, that means making sure our healthcare isnt under attack anymore, adding to a place we can have that distribution for the greatest pandemic weve seen in 100 years, working at a level the United States of america should be operating at. This mandate is going to be key to getting our country back, getting our country back to working and i hope senators like marco rubio at some point before trump brainwashed and used to be somewhat reasonable. I hope they can get on that page of lets get back to work. Take a look down the road. If democrats do end up controlling all the levers of power in washington and at this point it is too soon to know, the race is not decided yet but if they do wind up controlling all levels of power do you see some of the things senator rubio predicts coming true . I dont see it as dire as senator rubio doesnt part of the reason is the United States senate has been broken for over a decade. Whether that was under the leadership of which mcconnell or harry reid or soon to be if the race holds out Chuck Schumer it is not about the left or right battle in the senate, the real battle is those in power against everyone else. We saw that recently in what was just past, four people who decided what would happen, schumer, mccarthy and pelosi, four people deciding and thats not what it was about. My hope would be regardless who end of 5 controlling the senate would be the rest of the senators decide to be senators at not advocate that power. Would only take 26 democrats are 26 republicans to change the leadership model in the senate. Both sides of the aisle have to recognize the American People are different from those in washington even the far left and far right are putting forward, the country is centerleft or central right country and people in the movable middle, the middle part of the country are tired of both sides of the aisle and want them to be governing for the people again and not for a leftwing agenda or rightwing agenda but for the American Peoples agenda and that is what we should be hoping for. If john ossoff were to win is a temptation for democrats to overreach and go so far to the left for the American People rebel and toss them in the midterm elections two years from now . There is one person who has been standing in the way of americans getting a relief from the pandemic that they need since the 2,000 checks, only one person that looked at the pain and suffering, death, and said i dont care, we are not going to move and this and this is Mitch Mcconnell. And after tonight Mitch Mcconnell has lost his job so the American People are going to get a delivery on the promise of being able to get the resources they need to get through this pandemic and i think they are going to say good riddance to the type of obstruction and shut down and any sort of political compromise that we have seen from Mitch Mcconnell. This is the continuation of the 2020 election, and republicans and especially donald trump lack leadership on this pandemic. You are a bit premature, we dont know the results of the race and if david perdue were to hang on then Mitch Mcconnell hangs on as majority leader and you can get into the argument of whether joe manchin might consider switching parties. Is that a possibility if both parties when in georgia . If democrats win in georgia it is not an easy path, the magic number is still 60 so it does require some compromise. We always complain about conflict being the problem. Collusion is the problem. You dont get 27 trillion in debt through compromise. It is collusion. It is both sides of the aisle. I will be an equal opportunity offender. Both sides are guilty on this. Could you see joe manchin, i doubt he moves because he has more power being the centerleft side of the democratic aisle. As youve seen mitt romney play that role or john mccain in that role, there will be a lot of senators that will move to those positions as this shakes out. We are far from done but i also think we are far from getting to the right conversation about what the right agenda is for the American People. John thank you both. Georgians are suffering the most erratic surge of covid19 infections in the state since the outbreak of the pandemic, it is further complicating already contentious election, next up we will consider the impact of the pandemic right now tonight on the georgia runoff. Jillian covid19 cases of exploding across georgia, hospitalizations double where they were 2 months ago before the president ial election in november. What impact did covid19 have on yesterdays runoff . Did it affect which candidates voters chose . Former insight, jim handels politics editor at the washington examiner, good morning. I want to pull up some stats to kick us off and get everybody on the same page. In the state of georgia covid19 rates are such that the state ranks tenth among states nationwide for new cases for 100,000 people, ranks ninth in positive test rate and second in the number of filled icu beds, 92 . You have been tracking this for a wild but do these numbers shock you . It certainly didnt help. Given the state as a republican led state it was detrimental to the republican candidates as it was for donald trump in his reelection race. It contributed to a situation where Georgia Governor Brian Kemp was beset on all sides, a lot of democratic and swing voters were unhappy with him for his management of the covid19 pandemic and some hangover from the contentious Gubernatorial Election with stacy abrams and a number of Republican Voters unhappy with a state gop leaders because of the president ial election, unhappy he didnt take a firmer stand with donald trump as many thought he should have. Against the backdrop of the covid19 outbreak, it was a whole host of problems the gop was trying to deal with in a of races. Jillian the latest polling shows through the pandemic georgians response to covid19 has been polarized in accordance with political views, 90 of republicans feel donald trump and brian kemp handled the outbreak well. The same number of democrats believe, have believed they failed. There is a partisan breakdown on the issue of whether the highest priority is economic reopening which is preferred by a lot of republicans, a lot of republicans think the lockdowns have done more harm than good versus a lot of democratic voters and some independents who are concerned and think virus mitigation practices have to take precedence over any economic reopening and we saw that split in the president ial race and we certainly saw that split in georgia as well. Fox news projected Rafael Warnock will unseat Kelly Leffler. Shes not conceited yet. We also know the Ossoff Purdue race is too close to call. Can you read some tea leaves and tell us what these results so far tell us about georgians response to how covid19 has been handled . Certainly you saw a little drop off in the trump friendliest areas in terms of turnout, a very strong suburban turnout, very strong turnout by democratic voters. Both of these races came down to the wire. When you look at anything like covid19 it clearly splits people on partisan lines. To have this surge at this time was detrimental to the republicans. Republicans really were hoping to use this as a last stand to maintain their Senate Majority, depending on what happens with perdue that is still a possibility, but it is going to be a closely divided senate and the winners will not win by a big margin. Jillian thanks for staying up with us, we appreciate it. Todd a race to the finish line in georgia, one senate seat still without a projected winner. Willoughby john ossoff or david perdue . 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I believe when the dust settles it will be the efforts of stacy abrams and the africanamerican vote that pushed him over the line and i think perdue remains to be seen. We have democratic bastians that have taken a break tonight but are coming back tomorrow so we have to watch that closely. One down one to go and we hope republicans can hold onto the senate. Divided government is healthy for our country. John not in this election was a topic that race was a topic and the general election in november, black lives matter and so forth. The state of georgia sending its first black senator to washington. What does that tell you about racism in america . The country is changing and for the better. Africanamerican elected for the first time in georgia. I disagree with his policies wholeheartedly but there was a substantial africanamerican turnout that carried the day for warnock but if we look forward we will put our seatbelts on it will be a rough and tumble two years, republicans continue to fight for freedom and liberty putting America First and democrats are very much on the other side fighting for these leftist socialist policies and the fight will continue no matter what happens in georgia. John we will hear from donald trump who is going to continue to tweet and to fire at his perceived political opponents, perhaps the people he thinks cost him a second term. That will be a lot of turmoil in the Republican Party and the two years ahead. Absolutely. We focused on the Democratic Party discord but look at the mess that is now the Republican Party, the division, deep divisions over Donald Trumps effort to overturn the legitimate election of joe biden. A lot of republicans are unhappy with this and the effort to smear same policy is socialist, what happened in georgia, it didnt work. The Affordable Care act is not socialism. Getting americans vaccinated and Wearing Masks is not socialism. Sciencebased policies are not socialism, they are sanity and a return to that and to centrist policies in america will be welcomed i think by many people on both sides of the political aisle. John judy miller, sean duffy, brad blakeman, you have been good to stay with us through the we hours of the morning especially on the east coast, thank you for joining us and for your thoughts. Jillian the bottom of the hour, fox news is projecting reverend Rafael Warnock will unseat Kelly Leffler in the Georgia Senate runoff. Leffler this hour has not yet conceded. The battle between Democrat John ossoff and Republican David Perdue is no in that can. John and i wrapping up coverage but election coverage continues on the Fox News Channel next. 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