How the Georgia Senate election results could boost R.I. Senator Jack Reed
The senior senator from Rhode Island has been in line to become the chairman of the Armed Services Committee
Updated January 6, 2021, 9:29 a.m.
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Vice President Mike Pence administers the oath of office to Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., during a reenactment ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021.Samuel Corum/Associated Press
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By Bill Galluccio
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Georgia voters came out in record numbers to vote in two runoff elections for seats in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday (January 5), with more than three million people voting early. Officials estimate that 4.6 million people will cast votes, the most ever in a runoff election in the state.
The races will determine which party will have control of the Senate for the next two years. If the Democratic candidates win both races, they will create a 50-50 tie in the chamber, giving Vice President-elect
Kamala Harris the deciding vote. If the Republicans maintain their majority, it will give them the ability to block much of President-elect
| UPDATED: 22:46, Wed, Jan 6, 2021
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Donald Trump supporters have stormed the Capitol in Washington following a speech by the outgoing President earlier today. Footage showed Trump supporters barging through lines of police and storming into the Senate.
| Updated January 6, 2021
Jon Ossoff is the projected winner of Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff election, according to NBC and ABC, defeating GOP Sen. David Perdue and delivering Democrats control of the upper chamber, clearing a path for them to carry out President-elect Joe Biden’s agenda.
Georgia has been the political focus of the country after candidates in both the state’s Senate races failed to secure a majority of the votes in November, triggering runoff elections in January. Democrat Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, won his race against Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) in the other Senate contest.