Georgia voters headed to the polls on Tuesday to choose between Republicans and Democrats for the last two undecided U.S. Senate seats. Having already captured 48 seats, the Democratic Party could gain a bare minimum control of the chamber if their candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff win both their races against incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Weeks of early voting have been dominated by Democratic voters, but Republicans are expected to turn out in high numbers on Tuesday. Both races are close if polls are to be believed and the outcomes may not be known for a few days. The GOP Senators fighting to keep their seats have both backed to varying degrees, President Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the Presidential election. On Monday Loeffler took to the stage at a Trump rally saying she would join the group of Republicans Senators objecting to the electoral college vote. Her opponent Warnock cited her stated intention on Twitter saying she wants to, “undermine your vote and overturn Georgia’s election.” 

President Trump has made the Georgia Senate races about his Presidential state loss as well, and in conflating the two has risked lowering Republican turnout. On Monday, Gabriel Sterling, a Voting System Implementation Manager for Georgia and a Republican, responded to the now-infamous tape of the Saturday phone call that Trump had with State Secretary Brad Raffensperger. Sterling debunked Trump’s wild claims point-by-point, without mincing words, and indicating just how frustrated he was with the President. “I wanted to scream,” he said when he heard the Trump call before going on to explain.

But proving once again that facts don’t matter to him Trump regurgitated the lies at his Georgia rally which was ostensibly meant as a booster for the GOP Senate candidates. Two days before the electoral college votes are formally tallied he remained adamant saying, “I’ll fight like hell” to remain in power, echoing the sentiment of an undemocratic dictator. And he claimed that “everyone loved my phone call” with the Georgia Secretary of State. Meanwhile, President elect Joe Biden who was also in Georgia to rally behind the Democratic candidates reminded voters in that state that they held the power now to determine which party would be in charge. Mr. Biden even tied $2,000 economic stimulus checks to the senate races. Biden also accused Trump of “whining and complaining” rather than addressing the Covid-19 pandemic. 

In other news the leader of the pro-Trump men-only hate-group Proud Boys, has been arrested. Enrique Tarrio was charged with destroying a Black Lives Matter banner that hung outside a Black church in Washington DC during a violent rally late last year where several people were beaten and stabbed. The Proud Boys have