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Biden delivered comments in Atlanta condemning violence and discrimination against the Asian-American community after eight people, six of whom were Asian, were shot and murdered there Tuesday night. But he used the second half of his speech to credit Georgia with both securing his victory and supplying the majority of Democrats in the Senate.
The president took a thinly disguised swipe at his predecessor, who for weeks challenged Georgia’s election results, made unproven fraud allegations and pressured state officials to reverse the result.
“The people in Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry. And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, you’ve recalculated it,” Trump said in a January telephone conversation with the Georgia secretary of state. Brad Raffensperger (R). .
“All I want is this,” he continued. ‘I just want to find 11,780 votes, that’s one more than we have. Because we won the state. ‘
The Peach State is one of many this year where Republicans have introduced new restrictions on early and postal voting following Democratic victories in November.
“This is a democracy. The right to vote is fundamental. The fact that there was a record turnout in America in the last election amid a pandemic should be something we celebrate, not attack,” Biden said in scripted comments.
“The fact that you held free and fair elections in Georgia that stood up to tell after recount, trial after trial, is something you should be proud of,” he continued. “The fact that your polling stations, your election officials, your volunteers, your local officials, your state officials, your courts stood up to the immense pressure with character and honesty and integrity helped save our democracy. And this country will long thank you for it. . “
Biden won the state of Georgia and its 16 electoral votes by nearly 12,000 votes in November, reversing a state Trump won in 2016 by more than 100,000 votes.
Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff
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Biden both stood up for the state’s electoral system and praised the impact of those victories in his speech on Friday.
“For those people who already have or will soon have $ 1,400 in their pocket, thank Senators Warnock and Ossoff,” said Biden. “But for their votes it wouldn’t have happened.”
Ossoff and Warnock gave the Democrats 50 seats in the Senate, which, combined with control of the White House, gave them a narrow majority.
Congress passed Biden’s US bailout earlier this month, which included the $ 1,400 checks, in a vote of 50-49 through the budget reconciliation process, requiring a simple majority in both chambers.