Mitt Romney says Trump has disgraced the presidency for demanding Pence overturn the election - as GOP blames President s election fraud campaign for Georgia runoffs defeat
Republicans were quick to turn on President Donald Trump after losing a Senate seat Tuesday in Georgia s runoff elections and projections pointing toward the GOP losing control of the Senate It turns out that telling the voters that the election was rigged is not a great way to turn out your voters, Republican Senator Mitt Romney told reporters on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning
Georgia s voting system implementation manager Gabriel Sterling, a conservative, said Wednesday the president is 100 per cent to blame for Republicans losing
Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated Sen. David Perdue in the Georgia Senate runoff
Ossoff declared victory in his Senate race on Wednesday morning
His win gives Democrats control of the upper chamber of Congress It is with humility that I thank the people of Georgia, Ossoff said
The Democratic victory came as Congress prepares to convene a Joint Session to certify Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election
President Trump made desperate last-minute pitch to stay in office
He keeps putting pressure on VP Mike Pence to overturn results Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!, Trump tweeted
Raphael Warnock honors the journey of his 82-year-old mother, who as a teen ‘used to pick somebody else’s cotton’
Verlene Warnock spent her summers picking cotton and tobacco as a teen in Waycross, Georgia, in the 1950s before becoming a pastor.
“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 a speech shortly after midnight Wednesday.
Her story was not uncommon. In the Jim Crow South, many poor Black people built savings by working in the fields because it was almost impossible for them to own land, said Karlos Hill, chair of African-American studies at the University of Oklahoma.
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