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Voting rights activist LaTosha Brown says the Senate runoff results in Georgia represent how mobilizing and harnessing the power of Black voters can help forge a new political landscape.
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He becomes the first Black person to be elected to the Senate from the state and the first Black Democratic senator from the South.
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Raphael Warnock defeated Sen. Kelly Loeffler, and Jon Ossoff beat David Perdue, according to the AP. The Senate will be split 50-50, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris having a tiebreaking vote.
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The reverend at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta will become the first Black Democratic senator from the South.
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Georgians are voting in two Senate runoff elections on Tuesday, January 5. Incumbent Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue face Democratic…
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Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler, according to the Associated Press. If Democrat Jon Ossoff defeats Republican David Perdue, control of the Senate will flip.
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Byung J. Pak's resignation comes just days after a phone call between the president and Georgia's secretary of state during which Trump demanded election officials "find" lost votes.
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President Trump has demanded total loyalty from Republicans, but nowhere more dramatically than in Georgia — where the last thing the GOP needed was an intraparty fight ahead of the Senate runoffs.
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It's unclear whether Trump's call violated election law or whether the president should — or even could — be prosecuted.
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If Democrats pick up both seats in Tuesday's Georgia runoff elections, they will wrest control of the U.S. Senate from Republicans. If Republicans win one, though, they will retain it.