And the early voting has been far heavier that in most runoff elections. The battle is intense – already a super-record of $470 million is pouring into campaign ads.
So the stakes in Georgia are extremely high.
But if Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock can upset and oust two incumbent Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, in Georgia’s January 5 runoff election, that would literally tie the Senate at 50-50, and give the deciding vote to Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris. Right now, Republicans have locked in a 50-48 advantage in the Senate and that poses a serious obstacle to President-Elect Biden. Senate runoff elections in Georgia in early January and thereby gaining control of the U.S. Washington – Joe Biden’s tradition-shattering, razor-thin, 11,799-vote victory in the Deep South state of Georgia in November is the political explosion that fires Democratic dreams of winning two fiercely fought U.S. Trump is understood to have two main areas of legal jeopardy in Georgia: the calls he made to officials like the secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, in an effort to reverse his election defeat in the weeks after the 2020 election, as well as his role in assembling the fake electors.īut at the heart of the investigation are the steps that Trump and his campaign aides took – knowing it was probably illegal – in assembling 16 pro-Trump electors to surreptitiously gain entry to the Georgia state capitol and submit unauthorized electoral college votes for Trump to Congress. “I am providing this letter to bring to your attention the need for heightened security and preparedness in coming months due to this pending announcement.” “In the near future, I will announce charging decisions,” Willis wrote in the letter. The meeting on Thursday afternoon appears to have been convened in part to give staff a more specific window for when indictments could arrive after Willis outlined her prosecutorial intentions in the case in a letter to the Fulton county sheriff Patrick Labat last month. The dispute resolved itself last week after the fake elector without a deal found a new lawyer. Prosecutors then also spent several weeks on a potential conflict issue resulting from the fact that not all of the fake electors defended by lawyer Kimberly Debrow were offered immunity deals. Willis originally suggested charging decisions were “imminent” in January, but the timetable has been repeatedly delayed after a number of Republicans who sought to help Trump stay in power as so-called fake electors accepted immunity deals as the investigation neared its end. The district attorney’s office has spent more than two years investigating whether Trump and his allies interfered in the 2020 election in Georgia, while prosecutors at the federal level are scrutinizing Trump’s efforts to reverse his defeat that culminated in the January 6 Capitol attack.Ī special grand jury in Atlanta that heard evidence for roughly seven months recommended charges for more than a dozen people including the former president himself, its forewoman strongly suggested in interviews, though Willis will have to seek indictments from a regular grand jury.
The district attorney’s office hours later told the county superior court chief judge Ural Glanville asking judges not to schedule trials and in-person hearings from 31 July to 18 August because most of her staff would be remote in a letter seen by the Guardian and first reported by the New York Times.Ī spokesperson for Willis did not respond to a request for comment.
Willis made no explicit mention of Trump during the meeting, but the specific timing is understood to reflect the expected window for indictments after previous indications suggested charging decisions would come during the court term that runs July to September.
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