The Georgia runoff elections are important for Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Here’s what you need to know

Just over a month after the US presidential election, millions of voters in the state of Georgia will return to the polls.

They’ll be voting in two Senate runoff races that will be vitally important for the first two years of the Biden administration.

Here are five key issues to get you up to speed on what’s happening.

1. Why is there another election so soon?

At the 2020 US election, the two separate races for Georgia’s Senate seats were close.

So close in fact, that in both races no single candidate won more than 50 per cent of the vote.

Georgia has special rules that say when that happens, the top two candidates advance to what’s known as a “runoff”.

Basically, they run the election again but with just two people in the race. And in this…