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Georgia Senate runoffs: Nail-biter in Peach State with both races too close to call Barnini Chakraborty © Provided by Washington Examiner ATLANTA — In a pair of razor-thin Georgia Senate runoff races where the lead changed multiple times through Tuesday night, Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock was ahead of incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler as the clock struck midnight, while Jon Ossoff and Sen. David Perdue were effectively locked in a tie. With 97% of the votes counted, Warnock led Loeffler, 50.4% to 49.6%, while Ossoff and Perdue were locked in a virtual tie, with fewer ...

Print this article ATLANTA — Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock will be Georgia's first black senator after he defeated appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in one of his state's critical runoffs. Warnock, the senior pastor at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church, now brings the Democrats within one seat of Senate control in this Congress. "We were told that we couldn’t win this election. But tonight, we proved that with hope, hard work, and the people by our side, anything is possible. May my story be an inspiration to some young person who is trying to grasp an...