With Democrats winning two Georgia Senate runoffs, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will have a new role: the tie-breaking vote in the Senate.

“Depending on how it plays out, she will cast tie-breaking votes on some of the most important pieces of legislation of the early Biden administration,” said Jim Manley, a former top aide to onetime Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat. “But it’s not going to happen all the time.”

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