Las Vegas Review-Journal

■ Kamala Harris and Ivanka Trump campaigned in Georgia for Senate candidates.

- By Ben Nadler and Sudhin Thanawala

MILTON, Ga. — Campaignin­g in Georgia on Monday, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris stressed a need to elect Democratic U.S. Senate candidates who will advance President-elect Joe Biden’s agenda.

Ivanka Trump, meanwhile, warned that failing to re-elect the two Republican incumbents in next month’s crucial runoff could erode her father’s legislativ­e achievemen­ts.

Telling a crowd in Columbus that “everything is at stake” in the Jan. 5 contests, Harris said Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock would advance Biden policy priorities such as increased funding for schools in low-income districts, a $15,000 tax credit to first-time home buyers, and policing reforms.

“We will need the legislatio­n to be passed,” Harris said. “We will need Jon and Raphael in the United States Senate. These are the things that are at stake.”

Harris’ other planned stop was canceled due to a scheduled Senate vote on a coronaviru­s relief package.

Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s daughter and a senior White House adviser, stumped with Republican U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler on Monday outside a pub in Milton, about 30 miles north of Atlanta.

Over the crowd’s shouts of “We love Trump!” and “Fight for Trump!” she implored voters to send Republican­s back to the Senate “to protect all that America stands for.”

She called the runoff the “most important congressio­nal race in history,” and described Perdue and Loeffler as the “last line of defense” against Democrats’ agenda and for her father in Congress.

“We need David and Kelly in the Senate to keep our economy going, to keep delivering on the president’s plans, and to keep our schools open,” she said, drawing cheers from the audience.

As she spoke, touting her father’s record on unemployme­nt and work on a COVID-19 vaccine, a truck pulling a massive “Trump 2020” sign circled the street, drawing audience members to take videos and selfies.

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