Daily US Times: Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in Georgia’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party’s reach.

Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler. He wasa a pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached.

It was a stinging rebuke of Mr Trump, who is about to leave the White House and made one of his final trips in office to Georgia to rally his loyal base behind Loeffler and the Republican running for the other seat, David Perdue.

The focus now shifts to the second race between Perdue and his Democrat rival Jon Ossoff. Both of the candidates were locked in a tight race and it was too early to call a winner. Under the law of Georgia, a trailing candidate may request a recount when the margin of an election is less than or equal to 0.5 percentage points.

If Ossoff wins, Democrats will have complete control of Congress, strengthening Joe Biden’s standing as he prepares to take office on January 20.

The victory of Warnock is a symbol of a striking shift in thye state of Georgia’s politics as the swelling number of diverse, college-educated voters flex their power in the heart of the Deep South.

It follows President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in November, when he became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since 1992.

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