and we are just as you know a bit more
than a month away from two of the most
important senate elections and recent
memory
the georgia runoffs on january 5th
we'll decide the balance of power on
capitol hill and the fate
of president-elect joe biden's agenda
early voting begins a little more than
two weeks from today
with democrats jon ossoff and raphael
warnock
challenging republican incumbents david
perdue and kelly lefler
and with so much at stake joe biden's
incoming white house chief of staff
says to expect the president-elect to
campaign
in georgia winning those two senate
seats in georgia is important
and we're going to do everything we can
to help those two candidates great
candidates in georgia
help them win we've already moved people
who were working
on the biden campaign on the recounts
down there over to be supportive in the
field work
republicans have launched what they call
a 50-state fundraising effort to win
georgia runoffs and keep their senate
majority
and vice president mike pence has been
stumping there in recent days
stakes in this election have never been
higher
and here in georgia i got to tell you
the choice has never been clear
we need you to do everything in your
power
to make sure to just be sure
that your two senators will be there to
be a check on agenda of the radical left
let's take it right to our virtual couch
town hall editor and fox news
contributor katie pavlich
fox news correspondent jillian turner
executive director of serve america pac
and fox news contributor
marie harf joining us today fox business
anchor david asman
happy thanksgiving everybody happy
thanksgiving to you
here i've got a little plate of
leftovers off to the right here
to keep myself motivated no i want to be
with you
so david asman you know we we talk about
money in so many different ways at the
business network where you
star um and i'm wondering
what it all means now with regard to
georgia does georgia benefit from tons
of campaign money coming in from
democrats and republicans
well the question is who is georgia i
mean i don't know if the people benefit
from the bombardment they're about to
get from both sides
i mean obviously there's never been a
senate race that's going to
have more money thrown at it than this
than these two
senate races i mean it really is so much
bigger than just
georgia i know the georgians hate it
when they when they hear that but it
happens to be true because
it will affect uh the the nation for
years to come
if if democrats win both senate races
both senate runoffs
uh they will have the executive power
and both houses of congress and they
will get a lot of stuff done that will
change america as senator schumer
said it would i mean he was senator
schumer was right there and frankly that
sound bite of senator schumer saying
this now on to georgia so that we can
he first said change the world and then
said change america
that is being used as a republican ad
because of course a lot of
americans i think something like 57
percent of americans say that they are
concerned about democrats winning both
of those races and having a carte
blanche
to chat i mean you just think of what
would be affected everything from
from packing the supreme court to an
assurance of
tax increases just when the the
country's trying to build its way out of
the coveted lockdowns uh and and then on
and on whether the states
uh whether we will add the district of
columbia as a state which would
essentially change the balance of power
so i mean there are a lot of things that
will affect the country
uh but the question is how it will
affect georgia
and uh i'm frankly glad that i don't
live there right now
uh you know marie when you when you hear
david and others
allude to senator schumer's you know
rallying cry
to change the country do you think that
does
anything to reach across the aisle
politically
and or reach across the aisle to people
who didn't vote for
joe biden and that is north of 74
million people
so i'm just wondering when you hear that
kind of talk as a democrat what goes
through your mind
well this is a partisan election and
republicans certainly aren't reaching
across the aisle to try to understand
biden voters and so
when we're talking about georgia here
each side is trying to mobilize its base
and its voters to get to the polls
and democrats i think are cautiously
optimistic because joe biden did win
this state
democrats have won there statewide just
this month i can't believe we're still
in november it feels like the longest
month ever
but i think what's so interesting is the
democratic point of view the position
they're pushing harris
is that with mitch mcconnell in charge
of the senate
nothing will get done americans will not
get more covert relief
americans will not get actual fixes to
obamacare
they won't actually get a new voting
rights act or prescription drug
benefits passed through congress because
mitch mcconnell has refused to do that
for the last four years when the
democratic house passed it so what
democrats are actually saying is
you're sick of gridlock in washington
mitch mcconnell's senate is why
that's why democrats need control of it
and to many people i think that is a
powerful argument that the reason
coveted relief has twice now been
sitting on mitch mcconnell's desk
for months so i i hear what you're
saying but
katie what happened to it had to be joe
biden
because he was the only presidential
candidate in 2020 that could bring
people together
that could make them work together no
matter what the configurations were
because
he's joe biden what happened to that i
don't think i heard marie mention him
once in terms of being the unifier
she mentioned mitch mcconnell a lot
well i did see this week that joe biden
tweeted again that we need to come
together as americans and work together
and stop demonizing each other
but it is washington d.c and you have a
flank of the democratic party that has
been demonizing trump supporters
since the day of the election saying
they want to put them on lists they want
to make sure that they are unemployable
because they worked for the trump
administration
but in terms of getting back to georgia
and what this is going to mean
you know whatever happens in georgia is
really going to make
joe biden's presidency look quite
different if it's republican
senate there will be more negotiation
you know mitch mcconnell has worked with
joe biden in the past of course they're
both
served in the senate and joe biden's
cabinet members are also going to have a
different
experience depending on who has the
majority in the senate and you can say
that maybe americans are
quote sick of gridlock but a lot of
americans would make the opposite
argument and say
it's a good thing for washington d.c to
be doing less
for government to be focused on local
issues at the local level rather than
these one-size-fits-all policies
and when it comes to coveted relief you
know it's mitch mcconnell and the
republicans who voted to pass 500
billion
more dollars in covet relief you have
this treasury secretary asking for
congress nancy pelosi to vote to approve
money to be released that has already
been set aside
for coveted relief what the democrats
have done in the house has pushed
through
quote relief that is full of a number of
progressive left-wing
wish list items that are put in his pork
on the back of a coveted relief package
and so
georgia will be important you have john
junior advocating for people to get out
the vote there and that
that's what it's going to come down to
is voter turnout in that state
yeah you mentioned cobit 19 and that is
such a crude
crucial one jillian i'm reading now
single day record for new covet
infections reached in georgia again
this week we've been seeing that spike
since earlier on in november with more
than 3
000 cases per day rocking and georgia
you've got some of the medical
professionals there saying that they're
expressing sadness regret and betrayal
this has to be an issue on the ground in
georgia just like it is in other
states so what to be done politically i
mean how do republicans
the president didn't do well on that
issue until the very very end
um with the vaccine so how do
republicans battle back
well harris georgia i think is a very
clear example of just how much
covid has seeped into politics the main
headline
in the news this week about the race
here these runoffs
is whether kelly lefler has coveted we
know that she tested
positive and negative and then
inconclusively all within the span of a
few days
so people have been very focused on this
issue as a political issue and as a
public health issue
in the state but you know the real i
think
political drama here that's going to
emerge over the coming
weeks and months which is why you're
seeing so many tens of millions of
dollars pour into the state
is that this election more than any
other is really going to solidify
whether or not this state
is turning blue as democrats claim that
it has the democrats argument here
is that oh if you look at the margins of
republican victories in the state over
the last 15 years
they have been consistently diminishing
if they keep that trend going they're
going to have
a lot firmer ground to stand on if it
stays republican
then obviously that puts the kibosh on
the idea that georgia is an official
swing state right now
a quick note i spoke to a dem strategist
earlier this morning who told me they
really feel
their secret sauce here in the state is
demographics they're telling me that the
state overall is becoming younger
and less white and more african-american
and that this is the thing
that's really going to pay dividends for
them whether that is the case or not
i'll leave it up to
marie to tell us but that's kind of what
they're banking on
all right