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Democrat Jon Ossoff was declared the projected winner of his U.S. Senate runoff race in the Southern state of Georgia on Wednesday afternoon by The Associated Press. He joins the Rev. Raphael Warnock, who was declared the winner of his Senate race, also in Georgia, earlier Wednesday, giving their Democratic Party control of the U.S. Senate. The Democrats already control the House of Representatives, albeit by a narrower margin than two years ago. Ossoff becomes the first Jewish senator from Geor...

Democrats win control of U.S. Senate as Ossoff defeats Perdue John Wagner, Brittany Shammas, Derek Hawkins, Cleve Wootson, Hannah Knowles Warnock declares victory with votes still to be counted Replay Video UP NEXT © Provided by The Washington Post © Provided by The Washington Post © Provided by The Washington Post Here’s what to know: Democrats’ success has abruptly shifted the outlook for Joe Biden’s presidency, giving him much stronger hopes of prevailing on...

No evidence Georgia ‘happened to find’ ballots in Senate runoff, as Trump claims | PolitiFact Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s Republican voting system implementation manager, rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that the state “happened to find 50,000 ballots.”     Observers watch an official work as ballots are counted for Georgias Senate runoff election at the Georgia World Congress Center on Wednesday in Atlanta. [ BRYNN ANDERSON | AP ] By Bill McCarthy, ...

. With national attention on Georgia for the Senate runoffs, there has been a new round of claims that Georgia’s election system is wrought with fraud. Many of those claims have come from President Donald Trump. The accusations continue to be made without proof and despite reassurances from the Secretary of State’s office. At a press conference on Tuesday, state elections official Gabriel Sterling said that, of the 2,648 polling places across the state, less than 0.2% of touchscreens and 0....

Democrats on cusp of Senate control Top Searches This story is from January 7, 2021 Democrats on cusp of Senate control Chidanand Rajghatta / TNN / Updated: Jan 7, 2021, 07:09 IST FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail WASHINGTON: Democrats in the US are on the verge of gaining control of the US Senate after narrow, come-from-behind victories in run-off elections in Georgia that was a replay of the presidential elections. The yet-to-be certified results, which strengthened the hands of the Democratic Pa...

COVID-19 is focus on Biden’s first full day Updated January 21, 2021, 6:33 p.m. Email to a Friend Joe Biden speaks during an event on his administrations Covid-19 response in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 21.Al Drago/Bloomberg President Biden and Vice President Harris were sworn into office Wednesday. Shortly after he was inaugurated, Biden took executive action to reverse or target a number of Trump-era policies on immigration, climate change, and th...

Nearly three hours before his speech, Trump, who was to speak at the rally at 11:00 a.m., sent out a barrage of tweets criticizing the then-projected results of the Georgia runoffs where Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff were leading or had already been projected to be win. In those morning tweets, ahead of his talk, Trump suggested that the American electoral process was worse than that of third countries and that around 50,000 votes were illegally produced to aid the Democ...

US election process worse than third world countries -Trump Sodiq Oyeleke United States President Donald Trump says the country’s election process is worse than that of third world countries. Third World countries are developing countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia/Oceania. Trump said this via his Twitter handle on Wednesday, apparently in protest of his defeat by Democrat Joe Biden in the US presidential election. “They just happened to find 50,000 ballots late last nigh...

How A Democratic Sweep in Georgias Senate Races is A Small Victory for Trump On 1/6/21 at 4:33 PM EST Losing both Senate runoff races in Georgia—and, subsequently, control of the upper chamber—was undoubtedly a major and unexpected blow to the Republican Party, delivering Democrats the control needed to advance a more progressive agenda under President-elect Joe Biden. However, while the longshot Democratic feat was bitter news for the Grand Old Party, Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warno...

Sitting GOP Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler were leading by 100,000 and 80,000 votes respectively with 90 per cent votes counted, but Democrats were confident their candidates Raphael Warnock and Job Ossoff would overcome the deficit when votes from the black-majority Atlanta metro region was counted. Looks like they are setting up a big “voter dump” against the Republican candidates. Waiting to see how many votes they need?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 1609903716000 Just...