Warnock and Ossoff victories end GOP control of the Senate Translated Friday 8 January 2021 Perhaps the sweetest element of that victory is that it was the work of a ten-year-long movement led by Stacey Abrams and many other Black women in Georgia that resulted in making Raphael Warnock the first-ever African American to be sent by Georgians to the U.S. Senate. Jon Ossoff, left, and Raphael Warnock wave to the crowd during a campaign rally in Augusta, Ga., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Democrats Ossoff and Warnock challenged incumbent Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in a runoff election on Jan. 5. | Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP