Can Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock Make History?
The two candidates hope to be Georgia’s first Jewish senator and Black senator, respectively—a reckoning that has been decades in the making.
Photographs by JESSE PRATT LÓPEZ for The New Republic
Jon Ossoff arrives in Reverend Raphael Warnock's campaign bus at a rally in Conyers, Georgia, in early December.
If you speak with people who have long
known Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff—the Democratic candidates hoping
to flip Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats in tightly contested runoff elections
on January 5—you will hear them use words like “destiny” and “providential” to