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The senator thanked supporters and family.
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“Voting is faith put into action,” he said. “And Georgia, you have been praying with your lips and your legs.”
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Sanity strikes again.
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Raphael Warnock’s victory over Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff caps an election season in which the normal, the sensible and the fans of fact regained their voice and gave hope that, after long years in which American democracy was feared to be at death’s door, the patient is rallying.
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In simple mathematics, the win gives Democrats 51 seats to Republicans’ 49 in the Senate, speeding up confirmation of Joe Biden’s administrative and judicial nominees and starving the conservative West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin of some of the oxygen he enjoys as the swing vote.
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But more philosophically, it serves as another corrective to the notion that all America suddenly went mad on 8 November 2016, the day Donald Trump was elected instead of Hillary Clinton. Looking back, it’s pertinent to recall that Trump lost the popular vote by nearly three million and benefited from a unique cocktail of circumstances that included entrenched misogyny and running against the ultimate establishment politician.
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Democrat Raphael Warnock has secured victory in Georgia’s senate runoff, the AP projects.
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Warnock, the incumbent senator, has won his first full term and bolstered his party’s lead in the chamber.
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Not long ago, Herschel Walker took a slim lead, 50.4% to 49.6% (Georgia state results page here) over Raphael Warnock, but a lot of the experts and reporters I’m following here at Guardian central in New York are reporting pessimistic noises from the Republican’s campaign.
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Here’s Dave Wasserman, US House editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report:
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A pattern emerging: Walker is hitting/getting close to the numbers he needs in the reddest, most rural counties. But he’s falling a good bit short of the numbers he needs in small/midsized cities.
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There is, of course, a very long way to go and it doesn’t really matter who leads until enough votes have been counted to call the result.
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And as if to prove it, as I typed all this … Warnock took back the lead. As the great Kurt Vonnegut wrote, repeatedly: So it goes.
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From Guardian staff and agencies:
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The winner of Tuesday’s midterm election runoff for one of Georgia’s two seats in the US Senate will make history.
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Raphael Warnock became the first Black senator from Georgia when he won the 2020 election runoff that helped tip the upper chamber into Democratic control, boosting the party in its capture of the House, the Senate and the White House.
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Now, as Georgia heads for the last day of voting in the latest runoff, Warnock hopes to add another distinction: winning a full six-year term in the Senate.
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Standing in the way is another Black man, Republican challenger Herschel Walker. And whoever wins will be the first Black person elected from Georgia to a full Senate term.
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Black voters there say the choice is stark: Warnock, the senior minister of Martin Luther King’s Atlanta church, echoes traditional liberal notions of the Black experience; and Walker, a University of Georgia football icon, speaks the language of white cultural conservatism and mocks Warnock’s interpretations of King, among other matters.
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“Republicans seem to have thought they could put up Herschel Walker and confuse Black folks,” said Bryce Berry, president of Georgia’s Young Democrats chapter and a senior at Morehouse College, a historically Black campus from which both King and Warnock graduated.
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Standing beneath a campus statue of King, Berry continued: “We are not confused.”
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Other Black voters raised questions about Walker’s past – his false claims about his business and professional accomplishments, violence against his ex-wife, reports alleging that he paid for women to have abortions while now campaigning to ban the procedure – and the way he stumbles over some public policy discussions as a candidate.
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Some said they believe GOP leaders are taking advantage of Walker’s fame as a football star.
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“How can you let yourself be used that way as a Black person?” asked Angela Heard, a state employee from Jonesboro. “I think you should be better in touch with your people instead of being a crony for someone.”
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Even some Black conservatives who back Walker lament his candidacy as a missed opportunity to expand Republicans’ reach to a key part of the electorate that remains overwhelmingly Democratic.
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“I don’t think Herschel Walker has enough relatable life experience to the average Black American for them to identify with him,” said Avion Abreu, a 34-year-old realtor who lives in Marietta and has supported Walker since the GOP primary campaign.
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Warnock narrowly led Walker in the November general election, but neither crossed the 50% threshold, sending the race to a runoff on 6 December.
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In about an hour, the polls will close in Georgia, and counties could start reporting totals soon after. Democrats have already secured a razor-thin majority in the US Senate, but tonight’s runoff race between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Trump-endorsed Republican Herschel Walker is being closely watched across the US.
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A win for Warnock means the Democrats will be better able to leverage their majority to balance against a Republican-led House of Representatives. It would also solidify Georgia’s status as a political battleground state.
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Regardless of outcome, the race could prove to be a rebuke of Donald Trump. Walker’s poor performance in November was seen as a failure for Trump. If he wins this race, it could be chalked up to Trump’s absence from the campaign trail.
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Follow along for live updates as the results roll in.
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That’s all from me tonight. Incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock secured victory, and bolstered his social gathering’s lead within the chamber after a hard-fought, costly, and drawn out race. Trump-endorsed Republican Herschel Walker accepted defeat in a short, subdued speech.
Warnock, who turned the primary Black senator to symbolize Georgia two years in the past, secured his his first full, six-year time period tonight. In a victory speech, he famous thee significance of the second. “I’m Georgia,” he mentioned. “I’m an instance and iteration of its historical past, of its ache and its promise
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Joe Biden mentioned he known as Raphael Warnock to congratulate him.
‘Tonight Georgia voters stood up for our democracy, rejected Extremely MAGAism, and most significantly: despatched a very good man again to the Senate,” the president mentioned.
Simply known as @SenatorWarnock to congratulate him on his win.
Tonight Georgia voters stood up for our democracy, rejected Extremely MAGAism, and most significantly: despatched a very good man again to the Senate. Right here’s to 6 extra years. pic.twitter.com/ibx5aprVs3
— President Biden (@POTUS) December 7, 2022
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Simply known as @SenatorWarnock to congratulate him on his win.
Tonight Georgia voters stood up for our democracy, rejected Extremely MAGAism, and most significantly: despatched a very good man again to the Senate. Right here’s to 6 extra years. pic.twitter.com/ibx5aprVs3
— President Biden (@POTUS) December 7, 2022
“I’m Georgia,” Warnock mentioned. “I’m an instance and iteration of its historical past, of its ache and its promise … However as a result of that is America, as a result of we all the time have a path to make this nation larger towards unspeakable odds, right here we stand collectively.”
He talked about his mom, who was a sharecropper. “She grew up within the Nineteen Fifties … choosing another person’s cotton and another person’s tobacco, however tonight, she helped choose her youngest son to be a United States senator,” he mentioned.
In an energized speech, Warnock talked about the significance of defending voting rights.
“Simply because folks endured lengthy traces … the rain, and the chilly, and every kind of tips as a way to vote doesn’t imply that voter suppression doesn’t exist,” he mentioned. “It merely implies that you, the folks, have determined that your voices is not going to be silenced.”
Warnock: ‘The folks have spoken’
“It’s my honor to utter the 4 strongest phrases spoken in a democracy: the folks have spoken,” Warnock instructed his jubilant supporters.
The senator thanked supporters and household.
“Voting is religion put into motion,” he mentioned. “And Georgia, you will have been praying together with your lips and your legs.”
Herschel Walker spoke to supporters at his election night time occasion on the Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame, accepting defeat.
“I’m by no means going to cease combating for Georgia,” he mentioned, thanking his supporters, donors and workforce. “We put up one heck of a battle.”
After Walker endorsed Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories concerning the 2020 elections, it was unclear if he would settle for the outcomes. In his transient speech, Walker didn’t say whether or not he had known as his opponent to concede.
“I don’t need any of you to cease believing in America. I need you to imagine in America and proceed to imagine within the structure and imagine in our elected officers and most of all, proceed to hope for them,” Walker mentioned.
Evaluation: Warnock’s win in Georgia is a nasty omen for Trump
David Smith
Sanity strikes once more.
Raphael Warnock’s victory over Herschel Walker within the Georgia Senate runoff caps an election season through which the traditional, the smart and the followers of reality regained their voice and gave hope that, after lengthy years through which American democracy was feared to be at dying’s door, the affected person is rallying.
In easy arithmetic, the win provides Democrats 51 seats to Republicans’ 49 within the Senate, rushing up affirmation of Joe Biden’s administrative and judicial nominees and ravenous the conservative West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin of a number of the oxygen he enjoys because the swing vote.
However extra philosophically, it serves as one other corrective to the notion that each one America out of the blue went mad on 8 November 2016, the day Donald Trump was elected as an alternative of Hillary Clinton. Wanting again, it’s pertinent to recall that Trump misplaced the favored vote by almost three million and benefited from a novel cocktail of circumstances that included entrenched misogyny and operating towards the final word institution politician.
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Warnock wins Georgia runoff
Democrat Raphael Warnock has secured victory in Georgia’s senate runoff, the AP tasks.
Warnock, the incumbent senator, has gained his first full time period and bolstered his social gathering’s lead within the chamber.
Joe Biden is feeling optimistic.
“We’re going to win. We’re going to win Georgia,” he instructed reporters at Joint Base Andrews.
With 92% of votes tallied, Warnock is sustaining a slim lead.
With 87% of the votes tabulated thus far, the race stays shut.
However a lot of the remaining vote is within the Atlanta space, which leans Democratic – and can probably be promising for Warnock. On the election night time watch social gathering for the Democrat, director Spike Lee spoke to supporters, as CNN on huge screens confirmed Warnock with a lead.
In the meantime,Walker’s watch social gathering on the Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame seemed to be extra subdued.
One other column on tonight’s race for individuals who need to learn additional as they watch the outcomes crawl in. Robert Reich, former US labor secretary, on howthe largest loser if Raphael Warnock wins tonight gained’t be his Republican rival, Herschel Walker…
If Raphael Warnock wins in the present day’s Senate runoff in Georgia, Senate Democrats will achieve a 51-49 majority – offering them with some insurance coverage if Arizona voters boot out Kyrsten Sinema in 2024, whereas on the similar time lowering the ability of the West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin to regulate the Democrat’s agenda.
In different phrases: a win-win.
Nevertheless it might show a good larger Democratic win. That’s as a result of the largest loser in a Warnock victory gained’t be his Republican rival, Herschel Walker.
Will probably be Donald Trump.
Walker’s whole candidacy was a Trump creation – not not like Trump College, Trump Airline, Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks.
And like these companies, the Walker candidacy seems to have sunk beneath a miasma of ineptitude, lies and embarrassing allegations – on this case, of home abuse, semi-secret youngsters and funds for abortions for a number of ladies.
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Gabe Sterling, the Georgia elections official and aide to the secretary of state who turned a nationwide identify when he and his boss, Brad Raffensperger, stood as much as Donald Trump in his try to overturn the presidential election in 2020, has been telling CNN what he thinks the outcomes reported thus far say.
He says: “We don’t know what they are saying. Now we have lots of rural counties which have uploaded nothing but.”
He additionally reviews some drama:
We had one automotive carrying one of many vote playing cards broken, jaws of life on the market, each ballot employees are OK, they’ve turned down medical consideration and going to the hospital however they had been in a position to retrieve that vote card and get it to county headquarters. I imply, that’s the type of stuff that occurs on election day as a result of you will have hundreds of individuals on the market doing their jobs.”
About turnout, Sterling reviews that it is extremely excessive for a midterms runoff.
My nightmare was 1.4 million of turnout in the present day and guess what guys, it was gonna be 1.4 million. It’s a good race, it’s going to be some time … we’re most likely 3.3 million [turnout overall] . These are report numbers, guys, particularly for a runoff election. So I’m simply excited that so many citizens get to specific their voice.”
In dangerous information for drained editors in empty newsrooms, Sterling additionally mentioned: “I simply tweeted out, it’s gonna be a protracted night time and guess what, it’s gonna be a protracted night time.”
Martin Pengelly
Some additional studying because the lead adjustments palms once more, Walker nudging a fraction of some extent forward.
Steve Phillips – founding father of Democracy in Coloration and writer of Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority – on why white evangelicals in Georgia have proven their true colours in voting for Herschel Walker, a Republican mired in unchristian scandal …
Why do we’ve got such low expectations for white voters? The midterm elections introduced into stark reduction simply what number of white voters are keen to make a mockery of displaying any pretense of concern for democracy, good governance and even the barest {qualifications} for our nation’s highest places of work. As unlucky as that conduct is, what’s much more harmful for the way forward for the nation is how resigned the remainder of the nation has develop into to the anti-democratic and intellectually unjustifiable voting patterns of a lot of white America.
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