.@ReverendWarnock: “We were told that we couldn’t win this election. But tonight we proved that with hope, hard work and the people by our side, anything is possible. May my story be an inspiration to some young person who is trying to grasp and grab hold to the American Dream.”
@ReverendWarnock More Warnock: "I am going to the Senate to work for all of Georgia, no matter who you cast your vote for in this election … Will we play political games while real people suffer, or will we win righteous fights together?" #gapol#gasen
@ReverendWarnock Declaring victory, Warnock says to Georgians who voted for him, or didn't: "I hear you. I see you. And every day I’m in the United States Senate, I will fight for you. I will fight for your family." #gapol#gasen
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Jon @ossoff just declared victory in his Senate race: "It is with humility that I thank the people of Georgia for electing me to serve you in the United States Senate." #gapol#gasen
A statement from @ossoff’s campaign manager Ellen Foster:
"When all the votes are counted we fully expect that Jon Ossoff will have won this election to represent Georgia in the United States Senate." #gasen
Ossoff now leads Perdue by nearly 10,000 votes ...
From the Perdue camp: “We will mobilize every available resource and exhaust every legal recourse to ensure all legally cast ballots are properly counted. We believe in the end, Senator Perdue will be victorious."
Republicans still narrowly lead but Democrats can rely on hundreds of thousands of votes still outstanding in metro Atlanta that will break heavily toward @ossoff and @ReverendWarnock. DeKalb County, where the votes could break ~80/20, is key #gapol#gasen
@ossoff@ReverendWarnock Where are the outstanding Republican votes? There are some troves still in Columbia, Bartow, Forsyth. But we're waiting for a wave of votes from densely-populated D-leaning counties, including Chatham, Cobb, Henry and -- of course -- DeKalb. #gapol#gasen
And we’ve got our first batch of Senate runoff results in — a few hundred votes in Burke County in east Georgia. Buckle up - we will start getting more mail-in batches soon. #gapol#gasen
Huge batch of Fulton County ballots just came in, a Democratic stronghold, giving Democrats a cushion of about 55k votes overall. Constant reminder that it’s very early. #gapol#gasen
Watch Hall County, along with neighboring Cherokee and Forsyth, closely tonight. These are probably the three most important Republican counties in Georgia and the early returns show a 85-15 split in Hall for the GOP. #gapol#gasen
John Paul Jones Jr., 72, voted for the #gasen Rs in Macon. “I’mma go on, and get it over with,” Jones told the @ajc’s Carly Wanna. "Both sides make me sick” he said, citing the barrage of negative ads. Still, in his 54 years as a voter, he knows “that’s typical” politics.