After Raphael Warnock on Tuesday, Jon Ossoff won the second and final remaining Senate seat in the US state of Georgia.
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The announcement went almost unnoticed in the chaos around the Capitol. But even on a day steeped in history, it is not without it. Suddenly, the sky lit up for Democrats. Two months after their disappointment of November 3 in Congress, they recorded an unexpected success: the Senate has fallen into their camp. Joe Biden now has free rein – or at least less hindered – to implement his program. “We didn’t take the most direct route to get here,” said Chuck Schumer, the next Senate Majority Leader. “But here we are. And it’s a new day.”
The miracle came from an impossible place, Georgia, a southern state, which a Democrat had never won since 1992. On November 3, 2020, Donald Trump had lost very little – 11,779 votes. The two Republican Senate candidates were ahead of their opponents but not enough to avoid a second round. On Tuesday, Raphael Warnock, the pastor of Martin Luther King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, won, becoming the first African-American Democratic senator from a southern state. On Wednesday January 6, Jon Ossoff was declared the winner, with a tiny margin but sufficient to avoid a recount. At 33, he would become the youngest senator in the institution behind a certain Joe Biden, elected in Delaware, at age 30 in 1972.
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The Democratic General Staff attributes their victory to a message centered on the pandemic and the aid checks of 2,000 dollars (1,622 euros) offered by the Democrats – approved by Donald Trump – but rejected by the Republicans . “People want help,” said Chuck Schumer. Georgia Republicans blamed Donald Trump and the division he introduced into their camp by refusing to acknowledge his defeat. “100%”, criticized Gabriel Sterling, one of the leaders of the Grand Old Party (GOP) in Georgia.
The Georgia Senate was the last episode in the battle for the future of states -United – “the soul”, as repeated the ex-vice president during the campaign. Democrats now control all poles of power. Besides the White House, the House of Representatives, by 222 seats out of 435, and the Senate (50-50 but in the event of a tie, Vice President Kamala Harris, has the right to vote as ex officio president of the Senate).
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