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Georgia Senate runoff result: Democrats solidify Senate control after Warnock victory

December 7, 2022
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Georgia Senate runoff result: Democrats solidify Senate control after Warnock victory

Democrats have cemented their control of the US Senate by winning a bitterly fought seat in Georgia, according to projections.

Raphael Warnock fended off Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a race that had been left undecided after last month’s midterm elections.

President Joe Biden’s party now holds the upper chamber of Congress by 51-49.

The result caps a disappointing round of midterm election results for the Republicans.

The party underperformed expectations last month by winning only a slender majority in the US House of Representatives, Congress’ lower chamber.

Mr Walker, an American football legend and political newcomer, joins a string of defeated candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump, who is currently seeking the Republican White House nomination again in 2024

Georgia’s contest had to be settled by a run-off election because no candidate passed the 50% mark in November, although Mr Warnock had led Mr Walker by 37,000 votes cast.

Mr Warnock – who became the first black senator in the Deep South state when he first won his seat in January 2021 – told his victory party at an Atlanta hotel ballroom: “It is my honour to utter the four most powerful words ever spoken in a democracy: the people have spoken!”

The 53-year-old southern Baptist preacher, whose Atlanta church was once led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King, gave a special thank you to his mother.

He said she had grown up in the 1950s “picking someone else’s cotton” in Georgia. Tonight, he said, she had “helped pick her youngest son to be a United States senator”.

Mr Warnock’s projected win came by a narrow margin. With 99% of the estimated vote counted, he secured 50.8% to Mr Walker’s 49.2%, according to Edison Research.

( source: BBC.com)

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