David Perdue concedes to Jon Ossoff after bitter Georgia Senate runoff
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Republican Sen. David Perdue dropped his fight over the results of the Georgia Senate runoff on Friday, conceding to Democratic Sen.-elect Jon Ossoff.
"Although we won the general election, we came up just short of Georgia’s 50% rule, and now I want to congratulate the Democratic Party and my opponent for this runoff win," he wrote in a statement.
After polls closed on Tuesday, Ossoff won 50.5% of the vote to Perdue's 49.5%. Ossoff's 1 percentage-point margin of victory precluded the first-term senator from asking for a recount.