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Control of the U S Senate goes down to the wire in Georgia runoff races

Raphael Warnock wins Georgia runoff election against Sen. Loeffler, lifting Democratic hopes of claiming Senate majority Reis Thebault, Michael Scherer, Cleve Wootson © Kevin D. Liles for the Washington Post Democratic Senate hopeful Raphael Warnock speaks to canvassers in Marietta, Ga., on Tuesday. ATLANTA Democrats closed in on control of the U.S. Senate early Wednesday with a stunning come-from-behind victory in one of Georgia s twin runoff elections and the lead in the second contest, races that could reshape the first two years of President-elect Joe Biden s term by giving Democrats a clearer path to enacting their legislative priorities. After swapping leads over the course of the night Tuesday, Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff benefited from late counts in Democratic areas of the state, which gave Warnock an increasing lead over Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler as the final precincts were counted. Edison Research called the race for Warnock

Facebook again clamping down on political ads

© Getty Images Facebook early Wednesday clamped down on political ads about the two Georgia Senate runoff elections held Tuesday. The platform announced that it is barring the ads “in line with our existing nationwide social issues, electoral or political ads pause.” “Any ads about the Georgia runoff elections will be paused and advertisers will no longer be able to create new ads about social issues, elections, or politics,” Facebook said. ADVERTISEMENT Users can “continue to post organically and run ads that are not about social issues, elections, or politics and that do not require a disclaimer” and will have to reconfirm their authorizations and disclaimers for any ads on “US social issues, electoral or political ads.”

Schumer declares he will be Senate majority leader

Even with Democrats in control of the Senate agenda, they still need significant bipartisan support to move legislation unless they use a special budgetary process known as reconciliation to move bills with simple-majority votes. But that special pathway is reserved for legislation that directly impacts revenue, spending or the federal deficit. ADVERTISEMENT Almost all controversial legislation needs to overcome a 60-vote procedural threshold to cut off debate and proceed to an up-or-down vote in the chamber. Ossoff is leading Perdue by just more than 16,000 votes with an estimated 98 percent of the vote tallied. He declared victory Wednesday, though The Associated Press has not yet called the race.

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