ATLANTA, GA (MetroSource-WSAU) — NBC News and the Associated Press have projected Democrat Rafeal Warnock as the winner in the Georgia Senate runoff election, beating out Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler.
Still up in the air is the race between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican David Perdue.
The two runoff races in Georgia have gained national attention because their outcomes determine which party controls the Senate.
Warnock is the reverend of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King, Jr once pastored. The 51-year-old Warnock graduated from Morehouse College with a degree in psychology in 1991 and went on to earn a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He’s been senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005.
Warnock has never held public office, and would be Georgia’s first black Senator in Washington.
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