Democrat Jon Ossoff Has Defeated Republican David Perdue, Giving Democrats A Stunning Sweep Across Georgia’s Senate Races

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Democrats won both of Georgia’s runoff races, giving them control of the Senate and a roadmap for future success powered by Black organizers.

Republican Perdue by about .4% of the vote — about 16,000 votes — which is within the .5% threshold that allows Perdue to call for a recount. Georgia officials will continue counting the few remaining votes today, which are expected in areas that lean Democrat.

A litany of Black women-led voter registration groups like Stacey Abrams’s New Georgia Project and Black Voters Matter fanned out across the state in recent years to register new voters and to protect voters from being purged from rolls. In the weeks ahead of the runoff, Progressive grassroots groups organizing across the statetoward door knocking and in-person canvassing after the party largely avoided the strategy during the general election because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The runoff was defined by Trump’s meddling in the state’s election results after his loss in November and his failed last-ditch attempt to get more direct aid to people in the coronavirus relief package that passed Congress in December.

 

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O How sweet it is

Wow. This is moment I’ve been waiting for. Use this for good. Learn from what the republicans had in mind. Thank the Lord. We can do things again.

Don’t disappoint us Schumer! Act like you have the power! McConnell didn’t work with you and we sat back watched in horror! We can’t do this again! majorityleaderschumer

McConnellPress WTG!!!!! Good job Mitch!!!!!

They did? It’s been called for both?

Congratulations now you guys own everything that gets fucked from this point forward

The black vote has ALWAYS been the sleeper pick. ALWAYS

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Chuck Schumer, seen here running to the senate chamber putting as many bills as he can on the floor

Love it! 💪🏽

LoniLove

That's a No Brainer! fuckcancer

If they refuse to let y'all check out those ballots they are hiding something people

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