Let's talk about the United States Senate.
It's like a retirement home
that can take away your health care.
With the Election Day results coming in,
the Senate is now divided almost exactly in half
between Democrats and Republicans.
But there are actually two Senate elections in Georgia
that weren't decided last week,
and those are the ones that will determine
which party wins this tug-of-war.
NEWSMAN: Turning to Georgia,
where the balance of power in the Senate will be decided
just a couple of months from now.
The Peach State will hold a pair of runoff elections
in January after neither race landed a winner
with at least 50% of the vote.
NEWSMAN 2: The two Senate runoffs in the state,
scheduled for January 5th,
will now determine the fate of the Senate
and how much legislation
Mr. Biden is able to get passed next year.
Both parties will be pouring
tens of millions of dollars into the contest.
Every Republican of national profile
will be heading down to Georgia,
as will some prominent Democrats.
You know, I think it's interesting, Bret.
The scuttlebutt is that Democrats
would rather Biden stay away and Obama go.
Damn. Democrats want Obama to come down
instead of Joe Biden.
Man, once you go Barack, you never go back.
And poor Joe Biden.
I mean, he's president-elect,
but Democrats are all still like,
"Obama!"
"Everybody, uh, let's get a Democratic Senate for Joe."
"Who the hell is Joe?
Obama!"
But yes, both parties are descending on Georgia
for these two Senate races.
And if you live in Georgia,
can I just say I am so sorry
for what is about to happen in your life.
You thought the texts and TV ads were bad before?
(exhales) Nah, man. RIP to your doorbell,
because that shit is getting rung 50 times a minute.
Volunteers are gonna be popping up in your dreams.
"Hi. Sorry to interrupt your weird unicorn sex dream.
Can we count on you on January 5th?"
In fact, there's gonna be so many TV ads,
now is the perfect time to cut the cord
and cancel your cable.
Wait, not right now! Not right now.
After the show. After the show.
(exhales) Yeah, that's better.
That was close. Don't do that again.
Now, one reason that both parties think
that they both have a shot in the Georgia Senate runoffs
is that the presidential race there
was surprisingly tight.
Joe Biden did come out slightly ahead,
but it's too close for comfort.
The White House remains focused on the election tonight,
winning a hand recount in Georgia
as it pushes other legal challenges
that will likely have little bearing on the results.
NEWSWOMAN: The election is over, but the counting is not tonight
with every ballot in battleground Georgia
set to be recounted by hand.
Typically, recounts only change a race's margin
by a few hundred votes or so,
so it's very unlikely President Trump could overtake
President-elect Biden's 14,000-vote lead in Georgia.
But the Trump campaign today calls the recount
a first step toward winning their legal fight
despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
That's right. Trump is getting a hand recount
of every Georgia ballot.
There's millions of them. Hand recount.
And I don't think that's gonna be fun for him,
'cause, I mean, it's bad enough losing Georgia by 14,000 votes,
but now imagine having to hear them one by one.
It's also strange how election recounts
are the one time where people think counting by hand
is better than by machine.
There's never any other situation where we say,
"Okay, that's what the calculator says,
"but just to double-check:
"five, six, 11, 13,
"uh, 25, carry the one...
"All right, yeah. I think the spaceship
has enough fuel. You guys can take off."
I also feel like counting each ballot by hand
is gonna take forever.
Not just because of the numbers but because it's Georgia.
Have you ever been to Georgia?
Those people are not in a rush.
"One vote.
"Two votes.
"Three votes.
You gonna bring me some of that peach tea?"
What they need to do is they need to go and hire
Atlanta's trap rappers to do the counting for them.
♪ One and six and a thousand and 500 ♪
(whoops) ♪ And a million and done it again ♪
(whoops, rapping indistinctly)
But as you heard, it's unlikely
that Trump will actually find enough miscounted ballots
to flip the results in Georgia.
But even if he does,
he still won't have enough electoral votes
to change the overall result.