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01/11/2021 10:00 AM EST
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The Associated Press
WASHINGTON The Rev. and Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock shares more than a party with President-elect Joe Biden: Both Democrats made faith a central part of their political identity on the campaign trail and their victories are emboldening religious liberals.
Warnock, who leads the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, will become Georgia’s first African American senator after a hard-fought runoff that saw GOP opponent Kelly Loeffler cite his sermons in attack ads that portrayed him as radical.
His self-identification as a ” pro-choice pastor “ angered conservatives, but Warnock’s win in a state that Biden turned blue for the first time since 1992 has religious progressives hopeful that Democrats will keep broadening their outreach to voters of faith.
Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, the Republican incumbent, conceded her Senate runoff to Democratic Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock on Thursday two days after Election Day and CNN and after several other news organizations projected Warnock the winner.
David Perdue concedes to Jon Ossoff after bitter Georgia Senate runoff Print this article
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.