Donald Trump-backed candidate Herschel Walker and the incumbent Democrat Reverend Raphael Warnock went to a runoff. Mr Warnock will head back to Capitol Hill, completing an outright Senate majority for Democrats. It was a narrow victory, not all the votes accounted at the time we're talking, but 99% of them are - it looks like a 51-49 win for Warnock.
Democrats will have a bit more breathing room in the Senate, with an outright majority provided by
Reverend Raphael Warnock’s win. We ask what the state-level victory reveals about national politics. Algeria’s leadership has benefited from an oil-and-gas boom; lamentably, its long-suffering citizenry
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