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Democrats gain control of the US Senate and raid Biden's mandate

2021-01-06T21:40:37.940Z


Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff win seats in Georgia's runoff election Georgia Senators-Elect Rev. Raphael Warnock, left, and Jon Ossoff, Georgia.MIKE SEGAR / Reuters Amid the chaos generated by the assault on the Capitol by Trump supporters in Washington, the Democratic Party has seized control of the United States Senate from the Republican with the victory of the two progressive candidates in the election this Tuesday in Georgia, which was contesting the seats as


Georgia Senators-Elect Rev. Raphael Warnock, left, and Jon Ossoff, Georgia.MIKE SEGAR / Reuters

Amid the chaos generated by the assault on the Capitol by Trump supporters in Washington, the Democratic Party has seized control of the United States Senate from the Republican with the victory of the two progressive candidates in the election this Tuesday in Georgia, which was contesting the seats assigned to this State in the second round.

The result paves the way for the president-elect, Joe Biden, who, for at least the next two years, will govern with the two legislative houses in his favor, the Representative and the Upper House.

The Democratic majority of the latter will be, yes, by the minimum.

With the triumph of the Reverend Raphael Warnock and 30-year-old Jon Ossoff, the Senate will be made up of 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats (two of them, independents), but the next Vice President, Kamala Harris, will exercise the decisive vote in cases of tie.

The result has become known when the whole world watches how thousands of protesters in Washington have stormed the Capitol while a session was held to ratify the victory of Joe Biden.

The battle in this state was key and Trump has fully turned his back on it, but often giving himself a greater role than that of the candidates who were risking the position.

At a rally in Georgia on Monday, the outgoing president spent an hour and a half airing unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud and throwing darts at Democrats and state officials from his own party.

He barely had words for the candidates to the Senate, today defeated.

“We will never give up.

We will never, ever concede (defeat), ”the outgoing president said Wednesday morning before a crowd of supporters in Washington.

Georgia was in the eye of the hurricane having elected, last November, the first Democratic president in 28 years, thus becoming the only blue oasis in the so-called "biblical belt" of the South, in a tight scrutiny that Trump has tried to discredit without success.

This Tuesday, the southern state has made history again for several reasons: it has chosen the first Democratic senator since 1996 in a second electoral appointment, after a first tie on November 3;

has given victory for the first time to an African-American senator, Warnock, who breaks a symbolic glass ceiling for the community in the southern state, the second with the largest black population in the country.

Gabe Sterling, a senior Republican election official from Georgia, reported Tuesday that more than 100,000 residents voted in the second round of the Senate, who did not participate in the presidential election.

"While the Republicans were busy attacking [for not discrediting the results] the governor and my boss, the Democrats were outside knocking on doors."

With the recovery of the Senate, after six years of a Republican majority, the Democrats slam the Trump era on again, although the tightness of the result reflects the need for consensus.

The Democratic victory in Georgia also marks the end of the reign of the Republican leader in the upper house, Mitch McConnell, who will become head of the minority.

McConnell has been the wall against which the Obama Administration struck in its later years, a political veteran proud of the nickname La Parca, for his ability to bury opposition projects.

The massive participation of the African-American community and the mobilization of young people from the big cities were key in the victory of Warnock, 51, who faced Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler, 50, and Ossoff, documentary filmmaker, of 33, who was competing for a seat against David Perdue, until last Sunday, a 70-year-old Republican senator.

The Reverend Warnock, the first African American to reach the Senate from Georgia, was a strong rival.

The pastor for more than 15 years of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, the same as the leader for civil rights Martin Luther King Jr., was immediately well received by the community, which felt he was close to their daily problems.

“The 82-year-old hands that used to pick someone else's cotton went to the polls and elected their youngest son to be a United States Senator,” Senator-elect Warnock said this morning.

For his part, Loeffler, who was handpicked by Georgia's secretary of state after a lawmaker withdrew due to health problems, was anyone's guess.

Although the polls projected a slight lead for Ossoff over Perdue, his win was a bigger surprise.

The now former senator took his seat in 2014 when he won comfortably with 52.9% of the vote.

During the last week, the loyal Trump supporter was unable to campaign on the ground because he had been in direct contact with a coronavirus infected.

At 33, Ossoff will be the youngest Senator in the Upper House, and he will also be the youngest Democrat to enter the Senate since Joe Biden nearly half a century ago.

Georgia's senatorial election comes in a busy week for US politics.

This Wednesday, Biden's certification as the winner of the presidential election is set in a bicameral session on Capitol Hill and a growing group of Republican senators and congressmen plan to torpedo it, although they lack enough votes to achieve more than an act of rebellion against the will that American citizens have expressed at the polls.

Trump has spent two months denouncing without evidence that there was fraud in the elections last November, but at the same time he invited his bases to come out and vote for the two Republican candidates in Georgia.

The latest scandal related to the president's unprecedented crusade was the phone call published last Sunday in which Trump pressured Georgia's Secretary of State, Republican Brad Raffensperger, to "find" enough votes to reverse Biden's victory.


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