(CNN) – Raphael Warnock has a history of being the first black senator from Georgia and the first black Democrat to represent a state in the Senate.
Once in a while, Warnock will be the undecided black man serving in the United States Senate, a group that includes former President Barack Obama, who was elected senator from Illinois, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who is senator from California.
CNN projected on the madrugada of the high school that Warnock turned to Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler. Black voters in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, the city of the Civil Rights Movement, and the suburbs, will help Warnock to win the skating rink.
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Warnock’s projected victory is a significant step forward for black people in the politics of the South, and its election is the culmination of years of voter registration campaigns conducted by the Democratic Chamber of Deputies’ State Representatives Stacey Abrams and others , which also helps to give Georgia a foothold in presidential elections.
Warnock will also be the first Democrat of Georgia elected to the Senate in 20 years.
A high-level Warnock campaign assessor told CNN’s Kyung Lah that the campaign creates that Democrat voters in the second round were forced to vote for Warnock in the run-up to his post and the hopes of sending him as prime minister Negro Georgia to Senate, and is not happy with President Donald Trump.
“The only thing I love about the United States is that we always have a truck to make it better.” I love this country. I’m this country because it’s a rehearsal of the American sueño », said Warnock during a campaign meeting on the principles of this month in Macon, Georgia.
Warnock creció in Savannah, Georgia, en viviendas public. It’s 12 months old. Look at Morehouse College, a universidad historíricamente negra and Atlanta. The pastor of La Iglesia Bautista Ebenezer de Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr.
Warnock’s father, Jonathan Warnock’s defender, was born in 1917 to Jim Crow and was a veteran of the Second World War. Warnock told the story of coming to his father, dressed in his military uniform, the pidieron he handed over to his assistant on a bus to a white adolescent.
“Never let a day go by without a hitch.” Never wait to say goodbye, “Warnock said in his statements to Macon. “I love the United States because I live enough of it to see the change of life in my own life, and I hope that we will work hard enough to build a multiracial coalition with a change of conscience.” living in harmony with his ideals ».
The mother of Warnock, the reverend Verlene Warnock, created in Waycross and worked collecting algodone and tobacco in the 1950s.
In a discourse on Tuesdays at night, Warnock praised his followers, praised his mother and removed his family history to show the emblematic that is his candidacy.
“Given that these are United States, the 82-year-old man who soliloquy will receive the algae of another person to the ballot boxes and he will vote in favor of the United States Senator,” Warnock said in his statements.
“I present myself to you as a man who knows that he is unlikely to travel that he took me to this historic moment in the United States only to succeed here,” he said.
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