Tag: Raphael Warnock

• Sunday, December 11th 2022 - 07:50 UTC

  US: Az Senator going independent means goodbye to Dems' 51-49 edge

  

  Just when US President Joseph Biden had clinched a 51-49 Upper House advantage, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema Friday announced she was leaving the Democratic Party and going “independent.”

• Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 08:48 UTC

  US: Dems snatch Senate majority with Warnock's win in Georgia

  

  Raphael Warnock, a senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, has been reelected onto the US Senate on behalf of the state of Georgia in a close runoff Tuesday against Republican Herschel Walker, which resulted in the Democratic Party securing a slight Upper House majority. With 99% of the votes counted, Warnock led Walker by 50.8% to 49.2%, it was announced Wednesday.

• Wednesday, January 6th 2021 - 10:31 UTC

  Best possible result for Joe Biden: first results indicate Democrats have won the two Georgia Senate seats

  

  Primary results in the Tuesday Georgia state Senate election indicate Democrats will be taking both seats, the best possible news for president-elect Joe Biden. Meanwhile, Republican incumbent David Perdue vowed to “mobilize every available resource and exhaust every legal recourse” as he fought for his political life in a Senate runoff that was too close to call early Wednesday.