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ATLANTA Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock will be Georgia s first black senator after he defeated appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in one of his state s critical runoffs.
Warnock, the senior pastor at Martin Luther King Jr. s Ebenezer Baptist Church, now brings the Democrats within one seat of Senate control in this Congress. We were told that we couldn’t win this election. But tonight, we proved that with hope, hard work, and the people by our side, anything is possible. May my story be an inspiration to some young person who is trying to grasp and grab hold to the American dream, he said via livestream earlier on Wednesday morning.