English By Mike O Sullivan Share on Facebook Print this page LOS ANGELES - Early voting is under way in the U.S. southern state of Georgia for two Senate seats for which none of the candidates received a majority of the vote in the November election. At stake in the January 5 runoff vote the balance of power in the U.S. Congress.
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Both U.S. President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden have focused their energies on the races. Trump told a December 5 rally in the state that the voters of Georgia will determine which party runs every committee, writes every piece of legislation, controls every single taxpayer dollar, as he urged support for incumbent Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
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