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ATLANTA (AP) Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party's reach. A pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler. It was a stinging rebuke of outgoing President Donald Trump, who made one of his final.
ATLANTA (AP) Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party's reach. A pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler. It was a stinging rebuke of outgoing President Donald Trump, who made one of his final.
Black voter turnout fuels Warnock victory
Notably, turnout wasn’t just in metro Atlanta, but also in rural and small-town counties across South Georgia, where the Black vote has historically lagged
Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, defeated Sen.
Kelly Loeffler in Tuesday’s special election for an unexpired term for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia. Warnock will become the first Black senator in Georgia history. It remains too early to call the second race between Democrat
Jon Ossoff and Republican
David Perdue, who’s seeking a second term after his first term expired Sunday. Control of the Senate is in the balance.