Than 60,000 new infections voting in the us state of georgia has ended with the result deciding in a single day. The balance of power in congress for the next two years. Itll also define how much a biden presidency is able to accomplish. Joe biden won the state in novembers president ial election but the two senate seats in georgia both went to run offs. Heres a quick reminder why this race in georgia is so important. In the senate, there are currently 50 republicans and 48 democrats. There are two vacant seats. Ifjon ossoff and the reverend Raphael Warnock win their races, democrats would be tied for power. Then the Vice President elect kamala harris, a democrat of course, would have the deciding vote. And that would give democrats control of both chambers of congress and the white house meaning mr biden could get more of his agenda passed by the house and senate. Hed have more power. The bbcs larry madowo is in atlanta, georgia. Republicans have set up an in person Victory Party here
Hello and welcome. Crucial elections for georgias two seats in the us senate are on a knife edge. 95 of returns have been counted, but the outcome is uncertain. The Democratic Party challengers are separated from their republican rivals by less than a percentage point in the share of the vote. The Republican Party needs to retain just one of georgias seats to keep control of the Upper Chamber of congress, where they would be able to constrain the legislative agenda of president electjoe biden. Georgia election official, Gabriel Stirling has just given an update on the counties yet to be counted saying more than 1. 2 Million People cast their votes on election day, and the race remains incredibly close. As you can see, still a set of tight races out there, odonnell has the largest lead among the republicans, perdue has a small lead, behind Raphael Warnock. Fulton, and these larger counties will have big sways of votes that come m, big sways of votes that come in, that came in today, so
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