The polls are hours away from opening in Georgia as Trump’s sway faces a major test with the former president backing David Perdue as Pence campaigns for incumbent Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, a Republican who refused to help overturn the 2020 election. That, as early voting surges in Georgia despite a prohibitive new election law, and the WAPO reports the GOP Governor Association spent millions to protect candidates from Trump’s “personal vendetta tour”.

Plus, President Biden vows to respond militarily if China attacks Taiwan, satellite images appear to show Russian ships loading up and stealing Ukrainian grain, Senator Bill Cassidy is in hot water for his comments on Louisiana’s high black maternal mortality rate, a Russian diplomat resigns over the “aggressive war” in Ukraine, and the CDC confirm one case of monkeypox in the U.S. with a further six suspected.

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