Georgia Senate runoffs: Democrat Raphael Warnock wins against Kelly Loeffler
by Ed Pilkington in New York and David Smith in Atlan from US news | The Guardian on (#5CEWT)
Democrats within striking distance of taking control of the upper chamber in triumph that marks dramatic moment in US politics
Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta where Martin Luther King once preached, has won one of the two runoff elections for the US Senate in Georgia, putting the Democrats within striking distance of taking control of the upper chamber.
And Jon Ossoff declared victory over the Republican David Perdue on Wednesday morning, as he widened the lead over his opponent even though the race was still too close to call.
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