Pence Comes To Georgia As Calm Before Potential Trump Storm

Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield exchange elbow bumps after a briefing at the CDC on Friday in Atlanta. The vice president is also campaigning with Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, with the GOP roiled by President Donald Trump’s continued denial of his own defeat and his baseless attacks that Republican officials in Georgia enabled widespread voter fraud on behalf of President-elect Joe Biden.

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Updated at 6 p.m. Friday

Ahead of President Donald Trump wading into two high-profile Georgia Senate runoffs this weekend, Vice President Mike Pence on Friday urged Republicans to form a united front in the contests that will determine which party controls the Senate in January.

Pence campaigned Friday with Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, with the GOP roiled by Trump’s continued denial of his own defeat and his baseless attacks that Republican officials in Georgia, including the governor and secretary of state, enabled widespread voter fraud on behalf of President-elect Joe Biden. There have even been suggestions from some Trump allies that conservative voters should sit out the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs in protest, a notion Pence took head on.