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Democrats win Senate control with sweep of Georgia runoffs January 5, 2021 Democrat Jon Ossoff was projected as the winner in one of two Georgia Senate runoff races on Wednesday, CBS News and NBC News report. He declared victory earlier Wednesday after taking the lead in the close race against Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.). Democrat Raphael Warnock also defeated Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) in the other runoff, giving Democrats control of both houses of Congress starting Jan. 20. Warnock, the pastor at Atlanta s Ebenezer Baptist Church, will be Georgia s first Black senator and the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate in the South. Ossoff will be Georgia s first Jewish senator and the youngest U.S. senator to take office since President-elect Joe Biden. Biden narrowly won Georgia, the first time a Democrat has carried the state in 28 years.

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