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The southern state of Georgia goes to the polls on Tuesday to vote in two crucial runoff elections that could shift the balance of power in the US Senate from a Republican to a Democratic majority, as GOP incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue take on challengers Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
Secretary of state Brad Raffensperger has said he does not expect final results to become clear until Wednesday morning while the Loeffler campaign has found itself caught up in a late racism scandal over an attack ad that appeared on Facebook in which Reverend Warnock’s skin appeared to have been made artificially darker.
President-elect Joe Biden was campaigning for the Democrats on Monday evening, promising voters that their victories would mean a blue takeover of the Senate and thus the chance to upgrade Covid relief cheques for American citizens from the current $600 a month to $2,000, a move staunchly opposed by current majority leader Mitch McConnell.
