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ISLAMABAD: Democrat Raphael Warnock has won Georgia senate runoff election ensuring his party an outright majority in the upper chamber of the United States Congress for the remaining term of the President Joe Biden, according to the Associated Press.
The incumbent senator’s victory gives the Democrats 51-49 majority over the Republicans in the US Senate; therefore, speeding up confirmation of Biden’s administrative and judicial nominees.
In last month’s election, Warnock led Herschel Walker by 37,000 votes in polls that saw almost 4 million people casting, but he could not achieve the 50 percent threshold required to avoid a runoff.
First black senator from Georgia
Warnock is the first Black senator from Georgia as well as the first Black senator of Democrats from the South. The latest victory gives the 53-year-old his first full term who has contested five times.
He first run for the US upper chamber in 2020 to fill the remaining two years of the late Republican Senator Johnny Isakson’s term.
