Biden Tells Voters That $2,000 Stimulus Checks Will Be Sent “Immediately” If Dems Win Georgia
All eyes on Georgia: If Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock beat incumbent Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in today’s Georgia runoff elections, then “$2,000 checks will go out the door,” this is according to President-Elect Joe Biden.
Biden made this statement during a campaign event for Ossoff and Warnock in Atlanta. “One state can chart the course—not just for the next four years, but for the next generation,” Biden said in a Monday evening speech in Atlanta. “By electing Jon and the Reverend you can make an immediate difference in your own lives, the lives of people all across this country because their election will put an end to the block in Washington on that $2,000 stimulus check, that money that will go out the door immediately to people who are in real trouble.”
Biden, who is due to take office on January 20, argued during his final pitch that if Georgians let Sen. David Perdue or Sen. Kelly Loeffler win, the two Republican incumbents, “those checks will never get there, ” Business Insider quotes. As we previously reported, direct payments of $2,000 was backed by President Donald Trump, but have been blocked four times by the Republican-controlled Senate, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calling them “socialism for the rich.”
Meanwhile, VP- Elect Kamala Harris shared some words this morning to encourage Georgians to get out and vote. She reminded folks on Twitter that “The late great John Lewis shed his blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge for our right to vote. The forces against him were powerful, but he knew the capacity of what our country could be was a fight worth having. Georgia, mask up today and march on to the ballot box in his honor.”
The late great John Lewis shed his blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge for our right to vote. The forces against him were powerful, but he knew the capacity of what our country could be was a fight worth having. Georgia, mask up today and march on to the ballot box in his honor.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 5, 2021
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