Democrats won one of two seats in the …

Democratic Party moves closer and closer to takeover of US Senate, where Republicans have been in the majority since 2015. In elections in the state of Georgia, Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of the two seats up for grabs and his party mate Jon Ossoff leads the other ballot.

“Tonight we are showing that with hope, hard work and people on our side, anything is possible,” Warnock said. to his supporters in a virtual speech broadcast by various media. His opponent, incumbent Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler, has yet to admit defeat..

Warnock, 51 years old, He obtained 50.6% of the vote, becoming the first African-American senator to represent the state of southern Georgia., after pastoring a church in Atlanta where civil rights leader Martin Luther King, assassinated in 1968, preached.

For its part, Ossoff holds 50.2% of the vote against incumbent Republican Senator David Perdue, although the count is not yet complete. To dedicate himself as a winner, Ossoff, 33, would become the youngest Democratic senator since 1973, when outgoing President Joe Biden took office.

If Ossoff’s triumph in this traditionally conservative southern state is confirmed, it would be yet another setback for the Republican Party., who, after losing the White House, would find itself without Senate control. In the presidential election, Joe Biden was the winner in Georgia by a narrow margin.

With a double victory in Georgia, Democrats would have 50 Senate seats, just like Republicans. But the future vice-president Kamala Harris will have the power to break the tie, and thus tip the scales on the Democratic side.

More than three million voters, 40% of those registered in the state, voted early, a record for a second round of the Senate in Georgia.. According to Dave Wasserman, analyst for the Cook Political Report, participation in these elections recalls the democratic wave in the lower house elections two years ago. “This is what we saw in 2018: a lot of Trump voters just don’t show up when Trump is not on the ballot,” he said.

During the campaign in Georgia, the President-elect and the outgoing President stressed the importance of these elections. On Monday, Donald Trump warned his constituents that this would be “his last chance to save the America we love”.. “Get out there and vote,” he later wrote on his Twitter account.

In his crusade to make sure he “wins the election” in November, Trump called for a White House mobilization for Wednesday when Congress must officially recognize Biden’s triumph in the electoral college by 306 against 232.

According to the protocol, Current Vice President Mike Pence will recognize the Democratic candidate as the new president in the bicameral session. However, Trump maintains that his running mate may not know the election result.

“If Vice President Mike Pence takes a step forward, we will win the presidency,” Trump tweeted.. Many in the House of Representatives and Senate have vowed to back him, though several Republican heavyweights, including House leader Mitch McConell, have admitted Biden’s victory.