by ATLANTA — Democrats were on the verge of taking control of the U.S. Senate early Wednesday morning after Rafael Warnock was declared the winner in his Georgia runoff election with GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler, and Jon Ossoff pulled into the lead in his race with Republican Sen. David Perdue.
An African American pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church — the Atlanta church made famous by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., — Warnock was declared the winner by the Associated Press with just over 97 percent of the votes counted. He delivered a victory speech shortly after 11:30 p.m. in a videotaped message delivered from his home in Atlanta.
