The Georgia run-off elections can continue to make history and usher in a new era for politics in the Peach State. Primed to become a figure for the transition is Reverend Raphael Warnock, representing the Democratic Party and set to become the first Black senator in the state’s history and the 10th Black senator in the history of our country.
During the November election, the two Republican senators did not draw a majority of the vote, creating a runoff election that is occurring in January. The election will determine which of America’s two major political parties will have control over the Senate. The result of the election will come two weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. With an election win, Rev. Warnock will become an instrumental party of a Senate that will assist in legislation led by Biden.
Community voices: Andre Stepankowsky on the Georgia Senate campaigns tdn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tdn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“We are set to have the highest turnout in runoff history in Georgia if not the country,” he said. “I don’t think those two things are consequences.”
The Jan. 5 contests between Mr. Perdue and Mr. Ossoff and Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Raphael Warnock have attracted the focus of the political world.
Democrats can flip control of the Senate by winning both seats, while Republicans can hold their majority by winning one of the races.
The stakes are high, given the results will determine the level of opposition President-elect Joseph R. Biden faces in the Senate when he takes over next month.
Kelly Loeffler: llinois farms and Gold Coast condos chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Font Size
Building up to the crucial pair of U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia, which will decide party control and the direction of the future Biden Administration,
The New York Times has worked fervently to protect Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock and attack his Republican opponent, sitting Sen. Kelly Loeffler.
Reporter Rick Rojas took his shot defending Warnock’s far-left flank in Sunday’s edition with “Georgia Pastors Accuse Loeffler’s Campaign Attacks of Crossing the Line” and set the tone from the lede: “A coalition of African-American pastors in Georgia assailed Senator Kelly Loeffler on Saturday, arguing that her characterizations of her opponent, the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, had crossed a line and amounted to an attack on the Black church.”