Ebenezer Baptist Church Pastor Wins Georgia Runoff

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Ebenezer Baptist Church Pastor Reverend Raphael Warnock makes history in winning Georgia runoff<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> reports that Reverend Raphael Warnock&comma; the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta&comma; was elected on Tuesday to be the first black senator from Georgia&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The control of the US Senate now comes down to Republican David Perdue&comma; who is running to keep his seat against Democrat Jon Ossoff&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Warnock is the first Georgia Democrat elected to the Senate in 20 years&comma; and his election is the culmination of years of voter registration drives conducted by former state House Democratic leader Stacey Abrams and other activists&period; President-elect Joe Biden also won Georgia&comma; the first time for a Democratic presidential candidate since the 1990s&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;After no Georgia Senate candidate received 50&percnt; of the vote in November&comma; the races turned to two runoffs&period; While Ossoff and Warnock ran on a unity ticket&comma; Trump refused to concede his own loss&comma; sparking a fight within the Republican Party and disenchanting some of his supporters&comma; who believed his false claims that the vote was rigged&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Trump&&num;8217&semi;s ongoing onslaught against the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">Republican<&sol;a> officials in charge of the elections pressured the two GOP senators to make a choice&colon; Join the President in seeking to overturn the democratic outcome or risk losing Trump supporters&comma; some of whom have become disenchanted with the electoral process&period; Trump recently appeared to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on a private call&comma; urging him to &&num;8220&semi;find&&num;8221&semi; enough votes to reverse the results&period; Raffensperger refused&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But despite three recounts and no evidence of widespread fraud&comma; Loeffler and Perdue decided to join the President in objecting to Congress&&num;8217&semi; certification of the Electoral College&&num;8217&semi;s results in a final&comma; deluded display of devotion to Trump supporters&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;The American people deserve a platform in Congress&comma; permitted under the Constitution&comma; to have election issues presented so that they can be addressed&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Loeffler in a statement on Monday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;While Georgia is a rapidly diversifying state&comma; the Republican candidates came into the Senate runoff elections with an advantage&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In November&comma; Perdue received over 88&comma;000 more votes than Ossoff&comma; while Loeffler and the other Republican candidates received more votes than Warnock and the other <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">Democratic<&sol;a> candidates in the special election &lpar;Warnock received most of the vote &&num;8212&semi; 33&percnt; &&num;8212&semi; overall&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Republicans hoped their message that Georgia should be a check on Washington would prove successful&comma; noting that if Warnock and Ossoff win&comma; Biden&comma; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer will be in charge&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re talking about the future of the country&comma; and we can&&num;8217&semi;t just turn it all over to one party&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Eric Tanenblatt&comma; who served as chief of staff to former Republican Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue&comma; before Election Day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;