this is g.w. news live from berlin with dueling election rallies with the balance of power in washington at stake joe biden tells voters in the state of georgia they can chart the country's course for a generation by electing democrats to the senate and donald trump repeats unfounded claims calling for a republican victory so big the democrats can't steal it. also coming up germany

gets ready to extend its coronavirus lockdown as leaders seek a safer path to the pandemic. plus being smaller has advantages how these home bound cooks turned their limited operations into big business during the pandemic. i'm sumi so much gun it's good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump has repeated unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud on the eve of a crucial senate runoff election taking place in the state of georgia trump made those claims at an election rally of dalton georgia he was there to boo support for the 2 republican incumbents who are trying to fend off a strong challenge by democratic rivals u.s. president elect joe biden also campaigned in georgia he told voters they could set the country's course for a generation by. acting to democrats to the senate. was to tuesday's

a special election will determine president elect biden's chances of pushing his agenda through congress democrats will soon hold the white house and the house of representatives but if republicans hold control of the senate they will block biden from pushing through many of his policies let's take a look now at the balance of power in the senate where republicans currently hold 50 of the 100 seats and democrats and 2 independent allies they hold 48 seats right now so the republicans hold the balance of power there and the democrats they need to win both of the ga seats now with vice president elect come away harris's tie breaking vote in the senate that would effectively create a majority of 51 well let's take a closer look at the contestants in that georgia runoff now you have the 2 democrats john vause off and raphael warnock who are facing off against the 2 republican incumbents david perdue and kelly leslie all over salat reports now from

georgia on this crucial vote. it's people like julius hall who the democrats are now pinning their hopes on because among thousands of activists getting out the vote across georgia. african americans might be the decisive force in this runoff. we have cameras and they are trying to get there by the get out and vote we've been behind so long in this country. and so when you get a sense of you're own the rise and things are happening where we are there is some inclusion and then you get a clone that takes office for 4 years which is donald trump now we get rid of him and we feel like we can start over again. john also as one of 2 democratic candidates it's a race the 33 year old senate hopeful must win for the democrats to gain control of congress. because the stakes are

high and so are his goals.