It’s one thing to back a candidate who has baggage, owns up to it, and it doesn’t impact their character in the present. However, it’s entirely different when the candidate doesn’t seem to grasp the gravity of how damaging it is to character as a politician. What did you think of Walker’s campaign against Warnock? Should he have gone as far as he did? Were you bothered by his grasp of certain issues and hypocrisy in others? Could you see him beating Warnock in a rematch down the line now that his cards are on the table?
Despite Georgia voters listing the economy as their top concern, Newsweek found that abortion matters in the Senate race, but not as people might expect.
January 6, 2021 2:07 a.m.
Democrat Reverend Raphael Warnock has won the special Senate runoff in Georgia, toppling Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) just one year after she was appointed to fill retired Sen. Johnny Isakson’s (R-GA) seat.
It’s a historic triumph, as Warnock will be the first ever Black senator from Georgia.
“The other day, because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” Warnock said in an emotional speech early Wednesday morning.
CNN and the Associated Press called the race for Warnock at 2:00 a.m. Wednesday. Warnock had won 50.46 percent of the vote with an expected 97 percent or votes tallied, per the AP.
More people vote in person Jan. 5 for Senate runoffs than Nov. 3 election in Glynn County
According to the Glynn County supervisor of elections, close to 60% of voters came to the polls Jan. 5. Author: Kailey Tracy Updated: 3:17 AM EST January 6, 2021
GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. At the stroke of 7 p.m. Tuesday, polls across Georgia closed. Close to 60% of voters showed up at the polls Tuesday in Glynn County before the doors closed at the precincts.
According to Glynn County Supervisor of Elections Christopher Channell, more people came to vote at the polls on Jan. 5 for the senate runoff races in Glynn than on Nov. 3.