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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.