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CBS News projects Democrat Raphael Warnock has defeated incumbent Senator Kelly Loeffler in Tuesday’s Senate runoff election in Georgia, making history as the Peach State’s first Black senator.
The other race between incumbent GOP Senator David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff leans Democratic as of Wednesday morning.
Gabe Sterling, a top Georgia election official, said about 65,000 votes remain uncounted Wednesday morning, mainly from areas where Democrats typically perform well. Ossoff enjoys a lead of just over 17,000 votes, or 0.4% of the vote.
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If Democrats win both seats, there will be a 50-50 split in the Senate, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as the tie-breaking vote in her capacity as the president of the Senate.
“I’m just so very grateful to the people of Georgia,” Warnock said Wednesday on “CBS This Morning.”
“They sent a strong and clear message last night when they sent a person who grew up in public housing, one of 12 children in my family, I’m the first college graduate.
That I am serving in the United States Senate in a few days pushes against the grain of so many expectations. But this is America.”
Both Warnock and Loeffler addressed supporters late Tuesday. Warnock declared victory but Loeffler had not yet conceded.
“We were told that we couldn’t win this election,” Warnock said. “But tonight we proved with hope, hard work and the people by our side, anything is possible.
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May my story be an inspiration to some young person who is trying to grasp and grab hold of the American dream.”
Loeffler, meanwhile, insisted “this is a game of inches” and vowed to fight.
Turnout shattered records, with over 4.5 million votes counted by early Wednesday.
Source: Ghanaarticles.com/cbsnews.com
