The Buzz | US election: Democrats on course for Senate control
The Democratic Party of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is on the verge of taking control of the Senate as results come in from two elections in Georgia.
Pastor Raphael Warnock is projected to win one seat. Fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff leads narrowly in the other.
If they both win, Biden will have a much better chance of pushing through his legislative agenda.
The election is being rerun because of Georgia’s rule that a candidate must take 50% of the vote in order to win. None of the candidates in November’s election met that threshold.
With 98% of votes counted, U.S. TV networks and the Associated Press news agency called the first of the two races for Warnock.
Control of the Senate in the first two years of Biden’s term will be determined by the outcome of the second run-off.
Warnock is set to become the first black senator for the state of Georgia – a slavery state in the American Civil War – and only the 11th black senator in the United States history.
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