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The deep-voiced Baptist pastor who now holds the pulpit where slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr preached made history in his uphill battle to unseat a sitting Republican to become the first Black US Senator from Georgia. The son of a sharecropper, Reverend Raphael Warnock, who never held public office before, defeated Kelly Loeffler, a wealthy businesswoman who was appointed to the seat by President Donald Trump. With 98 percent of the vote reported, Warnock tallied 50.6 percent of the vote in a narrow win over Loeffler’s 49.4 percent. His win puts the party’s Senate major...

Making History Warnock will be Georgia's first Black senator and the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate in the South. His Very Humble Beginnings When Warnock declared victory early Wednesday morning he took a moment to reflect on his mother’s hands. Before she was a mother of 12 and a Pentecostal pastor, Verlene Warnock spent her summers in Waycross, Ga., picking cotton and tobacco in the 1950s. “The 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” Warnock said in a live-streamed address....

Democrats win control of U.S. Senate as Ossoff defeats Perdue John Wagner, Brittany Shammas, Derek Hawkins, Cleve Wootson, Hannah Knowles Warnock declares victory with votes still to be counted Replay Video UP NEXT © Provided by The Washington Post © Provided by The Washington Post © Provided by The Washington Post Here’s what to know: Democrats’ success has abruptly shifted the outlook for Joe Biden’s presidency, giving him much stronger hopes of prevailing on ambitious legislation, sensitive nominations and possibly Supreme Court justice picks. Ossoff a...

4 Min Read ATLANTA (Reuters) - The deep-voiced Baptist pastor who now holds the pulpit where slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. preached made history in his uphill battle to unseat a sitting Republican to become the first Black U.S. Senator from Georgia. Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Raphael Warnock speaks on his campaign's Youtube account after the runoff election against Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 6, 2021. Warnock for Georgia/Social Media via REUTERS. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. The son o...

Warnock will make history as Georgia's first Black senator CNN 1/6/2021 By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN © Sanjeev Singhal/The News Access/Cover Images/AP Images President-Elect Joe Biden Drive-In Rally On Eve Of Georgia's Senate Runoff Election ** STORY AVAILABLE, CONTACT SUPPLIER** (Cover Images via AP Images) Rev. Raphael Warnock will make history when he becomes Georgia's first Black senator and the first Black Democrat to represent a southern state in the Senate. Once sworn in, Warnock will be the 11th African American to serve in the US Senate -- a group that includes...