Biden will campaign in Atlanta on Monday just before the Jan. 5 qualifiers and Harris will travel to Savannah on Sunday, according to a consultant first shared with CNN. This will be the second visit to the state, for both the president-elect and vice president-elect, as they campaign for Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, hoping the party will gain control of the Senate.
Control of the chamber depends on next week’s clashes. If the Democrats won both races, the composition of the Senate would be 50 to 50, placing Harris as a tiebreaker vote and setting an easier path for Biden to advance the agenda he promoted during his campaign.
During Biden’s last stop in early December, which came after the Electoral College claimed victory, he struck Perdue and Loeffler, arguing that they stood by and “fully accepted the annulment. of nearly 5 million votes in Georgia. ” He urged Georgians to vote as if their lives depended on it.
“Send me these two men,” Biden said during the rally for the two Democratic candidates, “and we will control the Senate and change the lives of the people of Georgia.”
Campaigning at a virtual rally for the Ossoff and Warnock campaigns earlier this month, former President Barack Obama told voters bluntly: “Georgia’s special election will ultimately determine the course of the presidency of Georgia. Biden “.
Biden’s trips to the state come after he became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Georgia since the victory of former President Bill Clinton in 1992. Biden’s success was fueled by an accelerated grassroots organization. and an increasingly diverse constituency.
Aside from face-to-face visits, Biden’s presidential campaign has invested significant resources in the second phase, spending nearly $ 5 million on the races, a campaign official told CNN earlier this month.
It has deployed 50 paid employees, and about a dozen additional analysis and technology staff, from the campaign to help with state efforts ranging from organizing, outreach and contact with voters, focusing its efforts specifically in suburban Atlanta and smaller cities where Biden performed well during the election.
Biden has also been raising money directly for Ossoff and Warnock, with an amount approaching $ 10 million per official.
CNN’s Caroline Kelly contributed to this report.