LIVE UPDATES: Georgia county defends election handling in hearing

Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock are expected to appear at a get-out-the-vote event in Georgia on Sunday with a panelist who last year presented controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan with an honorary membership into his fraternity.

Nearly 1.1 million voters in Georgia have already cast their ballots in the two Senate runoffs next month that will decide which party controls the upper chamber.  Fast Facts Between mail ballots and early in-person votes, more than 1.12 million votes have been cast in the two January runoffs  Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue will face Democrats Rev.

Georgians have early-voted in unusually high numbers this runoff season, with nearly 356,000 casting their ballots in the first two days of in-person voting.  Through Tuesday, 715,048 Georgians voted ahead of the state's two U.S. Senate runoffs, set for Jan.

Jon Ossoff, a Democratic challenger in one of the two Georgia Senate runoffs next month, suggested earlier this week that federal immigration authorities should enforce workplace protections for illegal immigrants.

Early voting for the Georgia Senate runoff elections started Monday, and Tuesday will bring a visit from President-elect Joe Biden, who will campaign for the Democratic candidates just a day after the Electoral College confirmed his victory.  Biden will be backing Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev.

More than two dozen Black pastors, many of them from Georgia, sent a letter Friday to Rev. Raphael Warnock, one of Georgia's Democratic Senate candidates, urging him to reconsider his stance on abortion heading into the January runoffs.  Fast Facts More than two dozen Black pastors sent a letter to Georgia Senate runoff candidate Rev.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday urged Democrats to vote in the Senate runoffs in Georgia, telling them if they turn out in the state on Jan. 5 they can help advance objectives such as a $15 minimum wage and expanded health care.  Fast Facts Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Democrats if they turn out in Georgia they can get a $15 minimum wage, expanded health care and other objectives through the Senate. Republican Sen.

President-elect Joe Biden announced the launch of a “Flip Georgia Fund” on Thursday, urging supporters to donate to the campaigns of Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock ahead of the state’s crucial runoff vote. “The Georgia Senate runoffs are crucial – it’s why I’ll be traveling there next Tuesday,” Biden wrote on Twitter.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler labeling her opponent Raphael Warnock a “radical liberal," during Georgia’s Senate debate Sunday night.

Greg James has defended his hilarious reaction to Giovanna Fletcher winning I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!The author, actor and podcast host was crowned the first-ever Queen of the Castle last week, beating fellow campmates Jordan North and Vernon Kay.

President Trump on Saturday urged Georgia Republicans to reelect the party's two incumbent U.S. senators in the January runoffs.  The president held a rally in Valdosta, Ga., near the Florida border, for Sens.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, pushed back on President Trump’s demands for “signature verification” in an attempt to overturn the state's election results, saying he has called for such an audit three times.

returned for its first new episode after a three-week hiatus and hit the ground running with a cold open sketch that poked fun at Rudy Giuliani's embarrassing election fraud hearing in Michigan this week.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAlthough the swearing-in of President-elect Joe Biden is just about six weeks away, President Donald Trump has still been dominating the news, most recently with a hearing regarding allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

The Republican Party in Nevada said Friday it planned to appeal after a judge in the state dismissed a lawsuit claiming fraud in the Nov. 3 presidential election.  Judge James Todd Russell in Carson City dismissed the effort to overturn the results, claiming a lack of evidence.  “Contestants did not prove ...

Rep. Doug Collins Thursday said Republicans in Georgia need to vote in the January runoffs even if they're disappointed in the presidential election results or concerned about fraud.  "People cannot give up on the system," Collins told "The Story" host Martha MacCallum. "Right now, we have to turn our voters back out." Fast Facts Republican Sens.

The chairman of Georgia's Fulton County Board of Commissioners insisted the county deserves an "A-plus" for its handling of the general election during a Georgia Senate Government Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday. Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chair Rob Pitts objected to criticism of the county from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger earlier in the week.

President Trump will headline a Republican National Committee rally in Georgia on Saturday evening in support of Republican incumbent U.S. Sens.

Republicans have "unbelievable energy" on their side in Georgia ahead of next month's vital Senate runoff races, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told "Bill Hemmer Reports" Tuesday.  "We're going to win," Scott told host Bill Hemmer, going on to describe GOP candidates David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler as "businesspeople ...