Georgia’s Jan. 5 U.S. Senate runoff is underway with a large turnout. That’s when a video exposed by the nonprofit Project Veritas in October reignited attention.
The video shows members of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff’s team saying that Ossoff downplayed his radical views in order to win votes on the rural Joe State ballot.
In the video, Dino Nguyen, a campaign organizer for Ossoff’s team, said Ossoff would not have won if he had been a radical, portraying himself as a moderate leftist so that rural Joe voters would think Ossoff was not the kind of radical leftist they could not accept; but deep down, Ossoff was a radical, just laying low and not letting people see him as 100 percent himself.
Nguyen added that Ossoff hid his radical views in Georgia because “Georgians are not open-minded.
The video continues to fester, and on Jan. 4 one user commented, “He’s basically saying we’re very stubborn and shitty.” Another commented, “Don’t let him [Ossoff] fool you, he’s a radical leftist.”
Voting on Jan. 5 begins at 7 a.m., with two seats up for grabs. Ossoff is running against Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue, who is seeking re-election. Perdue defeated Ossoff by 88,000 votes in the November election, but a runoff must be held because neither received a majority of the vote.
The other contenders for the seat are Republican candidate Kelly Loeffler and Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock.
The two parties currently hold 50 Republican seats in the U.S. Senate versus 49 Democratic seats, so the Georgia 5 runoff is of great interest. If the Democrats win the two seats in the Joe state, it will mean that the Democrats control both the House and Senate.
In recent weeks, President Trump, Vice President Pence and many Republican lawmakers have continued to campaign for the two Republican candidates.
President Trump went to Dalton, Georgia, on the evening of Jan. 4 to give a campaign speech. He said they (Democrats) would massively raise taxes on the middle class and then give the money to the socialist state, and that the damage would be lasting and irreversible, with these two Senate seats as the last line of defense.
Trump praised Loeffler for his strong defense of the people’s rights under the Second Amendment to the Constitution, and Perdue for being the staunchest ally, casting a key vote for the tax reform bill.
Biden also traveled to the Joe State on the same day to campaign for two Democratic candidates. He said in a speech in Atlanta that the two Democratic candidates would lead a direct $2,000 bailout and that their votes in the Senate would help improve jobs, health care, justice, the environment and many other things.
Gabriel Sterling, an official with the Joe Secretary of State, told the media that 962,000 mail-in ballots had been received as of Jan. 4, with only 281,000 ballots outstanding. The number of early in-person votes is 2.07 million.
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