Democrats claimed victory in one of two crunch US Senate runoffs on Wednesday morning, with candidate Raphael Warnock saying he believed he had won.
Democrats were also hopeful of winning a second seat in the knife-edge runoff that will determine the balance of power in the US Senate under Joe Biden s presidency.
The hard-fought races have brought the international spotlight onto this southern state, nine weeks after the most tumultuous American election in two decades.
Democrats need both their candidates, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, to prevail in order to snatch the Senate from the Republicans. Outgoing President Donald Trump s party needs either Kelly Loeffler or David Perdue to hold their seat to preserve its majority.
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