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Rev. Raphael Warnock Wins Georgia’s Runoff Race, Making Him the State’s First Black Senator
Ryan Brooks, Buzzfeed News:
Warnock is the first Black person elected to represent Georgia in the Senate and will be only one of three Black people in the Senate once his term begins. His victory is a testament to the decades-long political organizing of Black women in Georgia, coming just two months after President-elect Joe Biden beat Trump in the state — the first Democrat to win a presidential race there since 1992. […]
He declared victory in short remarks broadcast online after midnight Wednesday. Recounting his upbringing in coastal Georgia, Warnock recalled that his mother picked “someone else’s cotton” while he was growing up and now she had gone to the polls to pick her son to become a US senator.
Incredibly gratifying to see pro-democratic forces win the day.