Reverend Raphael Warnock (Image: Screenshot)
Rev. Raphael Warnock, who won his Senate runoff against Kelly Loeffler, is yet another graduate of a historically Black college and university (HBCU) to have a hand in politics this year.
Warnock, a Morehouse College graduate, has credited the university for helping him grow and shaping who he is today.
Good morning Georgia!
I’m Raphael Warnock. I grew up in public housing in Savannah and went to college at @Morehouse where I was the first in my family to graduate college.
And I’m running to be Georgia’s next U.S. Senator. pic.twitter.com/82B3wYQGTB
Democrats Jon Ossoff, left, and Raphael Warnock exchange elbow bumps during a campaign rally in Augusta, Ga., on Monday. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)
ATLANTA (CN) Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff has won his Georgia runoff contest against Republican Senator David Perdue, giving President-elect Joe Biden’s party control of the chamber.
Ossoff won 50.28% of the vote compared to Perdue’s 49.72%, putting him just beyond the threshold that would have allowed Perdue to request a recount. Georgia law allows a losing candidate to request a recount if the final margin is 0.5 percentage points or less.
In the other runoff election, Democrat Raphael Warnock secured a win against Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler. Warnock will make history as Georgia’s first Black senator. He holds a 1.4-point lead over Loeffler, also putting him beyond the threshold for a recount.
Fulton County’s new sheriff has announced he wants to buy Atlanta’s mostly empty jail and begin housing more inmates there.
It’s a proposal that would upend promises by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and a notable departure from the momentum that’s been building for years to close Atlanta’s City Detention Center.
“This is an opportunity for the city to get out of the jail business and the sheriff’s office to do what we do,” Sheriff Patrick Labat, who ran Atlanta’s jail for the last ten years, told WABE.
He was a member of a task force Mayor Bottoms asked to come up with recommendations on the future of the jail.
Fox News contributor Deroy Murdock provides insight into the Georgia Senate runoffs on ‘Fox and Friends.’
With Democrats close to capturing control of both houses of Congress, President-elect Joe Biden is vowing to get big things done for our nation.
But the president-elect is also spotlighting that even though it’s extremely likely the Democrats will hold a razor-thin majority in the Senate, to go along with their slight House majority, and also control the White House, he plans to try to work with people in both parties to find consensus.
Biden’s statement came Wednesday, hours after Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock was projected as the winner by Fox News, the other networks, and the AP, over Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in one of Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections. In the other race, Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff was narrowly leading GOP Sen. David Perdue.