ATLANTA, Jan 6, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Democrat Raphael Warnock ousted an
incumbent Republican Wednesday in the first of two critical runoff elections
in Georgia that will decide control of the US Senate at the outset of Joe
Biden’s presidency, networks projected.
Warnock, a Black pastor with deep roots in Georgia, narrowly ousted his
rival Senator Kelly Loeffler, CBS, NBC and CNN reported, in what is an
embarrassment for President Donald Trump as he wraps up his four years in
office.
The outcome of the second runoff, which is coming down to the wire, will
now determine which party controls the Senate in the first two years of the
Biden era.