-For most American voters, the 2020 election is over,
but in Georgia, it's still heating up.
-Whoo!
-In November's presidential race,
Georgia went blue for the first time since 1992,
and Democrats are energized.
-Welcome to the new Georgia, the blue Georgia!
And come January 5th, we are going to seal the deal.
When you send yours truly and my brother from another mother,
Jon Ossoff, to the United States Senate.
-Reverend Raphael Warnock
is running against Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler
while Jon Ossoff is matched up
against Republic Senator David Perdue.
Democrats need to flip both seats to control the U.
S.
Senate, and history isn't on their side.
-In the past, Republicans have done a better job
of getting their voters to come back,
so that's gonna be a challenge for Democrats.
But in those seven
partisan general election runoffs in the past,
Republicans have won every one even though sometimes a Democrat
led going into it, led in the first round.
There's some reason to think it might change this year.
One would be because we have not one,
but two high-profile runoffs.
There's more attention.
And the other thing and this may be absolutely critical,
what do African-American voters do?
In the past, their dropoff has been greater
than the white dropoff, but in the past, you didn't have
a high-profile African-American candidate.
-So there's so much at stake
and that's why I got in this race in the first place.
-Mobilizing Black voters is a priority for Georgia Stand-Up,
a progressive group that's been doing this work
for the last 15 years.
-We know that in Georgia, this has a history
of voter suppression, as well as racial issues.
So we're not surprised that people got tired
of being sick and tired
and say that, "We're not gonna do it anymore
and we're gonna vote our values."
-The turn-out for African-American women this year
was better than it has ever been.
-This is really the tightest race in the world right now,
and the world is watching.
And we're excited because we know that no matter
what happens in this runoff, Georgia will never be the same
and we'll just keep building on this momentum.
-We don't have to negotiate. -No negotiation?
Think about that.
With Jon Ossoff, they get total control.
-Republicans made big down-ballot gains in November,
in part because of their message
that Democrats have moved too far left.
-We're not gonna let that happen because we're gonna stand up
to this onslaught
that will perpetrate a socialist agenda right here in Georgia.
-And that's become a dominant theme
for the Loeffler and Perdue campaigns.
-Chuck Schumer has said that he'll add two states,
he'll pack the court,
he wants to do away with the Electoral College.
And that will allow them total control.
And once they get that, they'll be able to execute
this agenda that they keep talking about.
-Oh, I'm trying to save our country
from the radical agenda.
-But another figure looms over this race,
even if he's not on the ballot anymore.
-You got to make sure that when they collect the ballots
and they start bragging about how many ballots
they already have, you got to make sure
your Secretary of State knows what the hell he's doing.
-President Trump has spent weeks attacking
Georgia election officials
and falsely claiming he won the state.
-And the beauty is that we also won Georgia, and that was good.
-Many of his supporters here believe him,
despite two recounts confirming Joe Biden as the winner.
-This election was rigged.
-Neither of us think the last election
was a fair and just election.
-I don't know if Georgia really went blue or not.
There's just a lot of things you don't know.
-I think my vote will be counted.
I just don't want a lot of illegal votes to be counted.
-Conservative organizer Tim Head says concerns
over election legitimacy have become a real challenge.
-Yeah, that's actually probably the biggest,
um, obstacle or barrier that we're seeking to overcome
is basically my message tends to be
"The only way you know that your voice will not be heard
is if you remain silent."
-Hey, sorry to bother you.
We have one question we're asking voters.
-And in a race this close,
convincing the people who think the system is rigged
to participate in that system again could make the difference.
-No, I think cheating is, um, I think it was done in November
and I think it will be done again in January.
-If 15,000 people in a state of 11 million
feel the way that their vote doesn't matter,
you know, technology has been rigged,
that's a significant number.
Not in 11 million but in a point and half race.
That's three quarters of a percentage point.
-I'll take your card. -We're good to go.
-Put your ballot in the scanner.
It's being recorded here.
This number will click and go up by one.
-After a presidential election decided by just 12,000 votes,
neither side is taking anything for granted.
And at early voting locations across the state,
Georgians are already making themselves heard.
-I've been here for about, like, approximately an hour.
I got a lot of adrenaline built up
because I'm actually doing something positive.
-It's one thing to listen to all those ads
and hear all the negative rhetoric
and not be able to do anything about it,
but now that the election is actually here,
we can really do something.
-You know, we have to do something.
We can't just sit there and scream at the TV.
-This is a good movement going on.
People trying to make change in the world,
and that's a beautiful thing.