Jon Ossoff
The president's last-minute objections set up a defining showdown with his own party during his final days in office.
The state is seeing record turnout as Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock seek to unseat Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
Republicans say Democratic wins will collapse the country. Democrats say they need to flip Georgia's two Senate seats to pass anything at all.
Control of the Senate rests on a long-shot bid to unseat two Republican senators in a state that has only just started to turn purple.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The GOP senator from Georgia has been using China as a political football, so a picture of him in front of the Great Wall apparently wasn't very convenient.
The president-elect campaigned alongside Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock as they try to unseat Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the January 5 runoff.
The races in which Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff try to beat GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue will decide which party controls the Senate.
The Georgia Democrat won back the support of former Rep. Luis Gutiérrez by affirming his support for Puerto Rican self-determination.
Jon Ossoff was left debating an empty podium after Republican Sen. David Perdue refused to debate him ahead of Georgia’s special Senate election.
"So arrogant that he’s not with us here today to answer questions,” Ossoff said of no-show Republican Sen. David Perdue.