At the age of 33, Ossoff defeated Republican David Perdue, 71, who has held the seat for the past six years and had the strong support of outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump.
“Georgia, thank you for the confidence you have given me,” the candidate had said today, in a brief statement in which he had claimed victory.
With Ossoff’s victory, Democrats take control of the United States Senate, giving Joe Biden the support of both chambers of Congress when he takes office as President on January 20.
The state of Georgia held on Tuesday the second round of elections for the two seats it holds in the US Senate, a decisive election as to who will control the upper house of Congress.
One of the two seats was already secured today by Democrat Raphael Warnock, who beat Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler, becoming the first black senator in the history of the conservative state.
Warnock, whose victory was announced at dawn by the American television networks CNN, CBS and NBC, is a pastor in the same church where Martin Luther King preached until he was murdered in 1968 in Atlanta during the civil rights movement of African Americans.
With the election of the two Democrats, Joe Biden’s party reinforces its victory, guaranteeing control of that chamber, in a new setback for the incumbent President, Donald Trump, who continues without admitting defeat in the November 3 elections.
With this double victory in Georgia, Democrats get 50 seats in the Senate, as do Republicans.
But, as envisaged in the Constitution, future Vice President Kamala Harris would have the power to “tie the tie”, tipping the balance for the Democrats.
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