New Georgia runoffs data finds that more Black voters than usual came out. Trump voters stayed home.
Bernard L. Fraga, Zachary Peskowitz, James Szewczyk
Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff, left, and Raphael G. Warnock bump elbows onstage during a rally with Joe Biden in Atlanta. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
This month, Georgia voters sent two Democrats to the U.S. Senate after runoff elections, breaking with a decades-long history of electing Republicans. Raphael G. Warnock and Jon Ossoff’s victories were particularly surprising, since Republicans usually have an advantage in off-cycle elections, which usually bring out an older, whiter and more conservative electorate (not just in Georgia but nationwide) than those who show up in November.