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The Very Long Road to Raphael Warnock’s Senate Seat

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Donney Rose
Jan 06, 2021
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A celebration of Black history came a month early in 2021 as Reverend Raphael Warnock, a Black Democrat pastor, defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler to become the first Black candidate from the Deep South elected to the United States Senate.

Warnock’s historic victory, confirmed in the early hours of January 6 in the traditionally conservative st…

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