Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia is set to face Democrat Jon Ossoff in the first debate of their U.S. Senate race Monday afternoon.
The debate will be held virtually with candidates joining by video conferencing from separate locations. The coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 213,000 people in the U.S., is likely to be front and center.
Ossoff has already sought to make Perdue’s handling of the pandemic a central part of the campaign, accusing him of downplaying the risk of the virus and undermining scientists.
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