#These five races will determine the Senate majority

#These five races will determine the Senate majority

These five races will determine the Senate majority The battle for the Senate is anyone’s ballgame with only a week to go until voters head to the polls. Republicans, needing to net only one seat, are knocking on the door as the national environment moves increasingly in their direction and some surveys show them in…

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#Rick Scott: Senate Republicans have path to 55-seat majority

#Rick Scott: Senate Republicans have path to 55-seat majority

Rick Scott: Senate Republicans have path to 55-seat majority GREENSBORO, N.C. — National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott (Fla.) says Republicans will likely control 52 Senate seats next year and have a pathway to a 55-seat majority, given how recent polls show GOP candidates picking up momentum.   Scott is voicing a more confident…

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#Chuck Schumer makes history

#Chuck Schumer makes history

“#Chuck Schumer makes history” On Wednesday, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer made history by becoming the US Senate’s first Jewish majority leader after Vice President Kamala Harris swore in three new senators. Schumer takes control of a Senate split 50-50, with the veep casting the tie-breaking vote. Georgia Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff and…

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#Queens man busted with weapons allegedly threatened senator-elect

#Queens man busted with weapons allegedly threatened senator-elect

“#Queens man busted with weapons allegedly threatened senator-elect” A wannabe Queens Proud Boy busted with a cache of weapons — including 75 knives –allegedly threatened the life of senator-elect Raphael Warnock hours before the US Capitol riot, prosecutors said Wednesday. Eduard Florea, 40, allegedly commented on Parler “Dead men can’t pass shit laws” in response…

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#Letters to the editor — Jan. 9, 2021

#Letters to the editor — Jan. 9, 2021

“#Letters to the editor — Jan. 9, 2021” The Issue: Democrats Jon Ossoff’s and Raphael Warnock’s wins in Georgia’s runoff Senate elections. Tuesday was a historic day in politics, not just for the state of Georgia, but perhaps for the country as a whole (“Georgia Sweep,” Jan. 7). Democrats in the previously very deep red…

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#Raphael Warnock defeats Kelly Loeffler in Georgia Senate runoff

#Raphael Warnock defeats Kelly Loeffler in Georgia Senate runoff

“#Raphael Warnock defeats Kelly Loeffler in Georgia Senate runoff” Democrat Raphael Warnock was declared the victor in one of Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections, defeating incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Warnock, a pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, became the first black man elected to represent Georgia…

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#Raphael Warnock preached Brexit was ‘ethnocentrism and hate’

#Raphael Warnock preached Brexit was ‘ethnocentrism and hate’

“#Raphael Warnock preached Brexit was ‘ethnocentrism and hate’” Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock denounced the UK’s vote to leave the European Union as “ethnocentrism and hate” in a newly resurfaced 2018 sermon. “Hate has gone viral,” the pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church said of the 2016 vote to leave the political and trade…

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