Twitter Reacts to Georgia’s Historic Election Handing Democrats the Senate Jan 6, 2021
Georgia has been on the minds of Americans for weeks now. Both Democrats and Republicans anticipated Tuesday night and an historic runoff election that will decide which party controls the Senate. This morning, CNN projected that Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock beat incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in a tight race. Later in the day amid pro-Trump protesters invading the U.S. Capitol the second race was called, with Democrat Jon Ossoff s beating out Republican Sen. David Perdue in a tight race.
President-elect Joe Biden needed both seats in the Senate in order to enact key legislation in his administration. Winning both seats creates a 50-50 party split with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as the tie-breaking vote. GOP victory would have maintained Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell s standing. Now, Warnock s will become the first Black senator from Georgia and the first
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Coming off an absolute nightmare of an election year, Georgia headed into a special runoff on Tuesday that would decide whether Democrats would take the majority in the Senate. Millions of Georgians cast their votes and while it seemed likely that incumbent Republican senators David Perdue and Kelly Does This Puffy Vest Make Me Relatable? Loeffler would keep their positions, Georgia flipped the agenda, electing Democratic nominees Reverend Raphael Warnock and from what it looks like right now Jon Ossoff to the Senate instead. Naturally, social media had some big feelings about it.
With major how will this end? vibes lingering from the drawn-out election this past November, a lot of users from Georgia and elsewhere held on throughout the night to see how the election would turn out, dunking on the incumbent senators and commemorating the increasingly likely chance that Georgia would elect its first-ever Black senator. And if the impending doom scrolling w