'Welcome To The New Georgia': Warnock On His Win In Georgia Runoff : NPR - 0 views
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Democrat Raphael Warnock made history in one of Georgia's two Senate runoffs on Tuesday when he became the first Black person to be elected to the Senate from the state and the first Black Democratic senator from the South.
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"Welcome to the new Georgia," he said. "It is more diverse. It's more inclusive. It readily embraces the future. And I'm the product of that."
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After November's general election, Georgia became the center of the U.S. political universe and the scene of a bitter battle within the GOP over the results of the 2020 presidential election with President Trump falsely claiming that the state was stolen from him.
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He said his campaign sought to cut through the noise of the "culture wars" and instead focused on the "concerns of ordinary people."
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"I think too often, even in the places where there is agreement, at least among ordinary people that we need movement, we get no movement.
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And so one of the things that I'll be very focused on is the outsized influence of well-connected corporate interests in our politics."