Ballot Georgia, Warnock and Ossoff collect the victory: the dem retake the Senate

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06 January 2021

The miracle of Georgia by Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff who, according to NBC and CBS, won the ballot, gives the Democrats control of Congress and makes history by showing, through the metamorphosis of a former conservative bastion slave state, the evolution of America who distances himself from Donald Trump.

Reverend

embodies this transformation.

He is Georgia's first African American senator: in the 1950s, his mother collected cotton and tobacco from plantations during the summer.

"His 82-year-old hands, used to harvest cotton for others, went to the polls and chose his youngest son as an American senator," Warnock said proudly celebrating the victory.

Eleventh of 12 children, the 51-year-old Reverend was born in Savannah, one of the iconic cities of Gone with the Wind, and attended the same college as Martin Luther King, the Morehouse.

He has always been a great admirer and follower of King himself and, with perseverance and charisma, he inherited the pulpit in the Ebenezer church.

John Lewis, the late civil rights leader, has inspired his action and commitment to society.

Along the lines of the criticism leveled at Joe Biden, Warnock has also been accused by Republicans of being the "most radical Democrat" in politics, as evidenced by the fact that his church welcomed Fidel Castro in the 1990s.

It was 1995 and Warnock - explained the reverend himself - was just a young pastor who could not put his mouth in the decisions taken by the highest able.

His defense and support for Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor accused of anti-Semitism, have cost Warnock further heavy attacks.

But he did not let himself be frightened, he continued his battle and "against all odds", he admitted, he won.

33-year-old

, the youngest Democrat elected to the Senate since Joe Biden 50 years ago and Georgia's first Jewish senator,

also went far beyond expectations

.

Born in Atalanta to Heather Fenton, an Australian immigrant, and Richard Ossoff, a Russian and Lithuanian learner, Jon Ossoff got his first taste of politics in high school.

It was then that he wrote a letter to John Lewis: surprisingly he got a response and an internship with the historic deputy.

After attending Georgetown University, Ossoff flew to London where in 2012 he earned his master's degree from the London School of Economics.

Later he dedicated himself, as a reporter, to the production of documentaries on corruption in foreign countries.

However, it was a parenthesis: his passion for politics called him to take the field.

In 2017 she ran in the elections for Georgia's 6th congressional district, establishing herself on the national stage and earning the support of John Lewis, Bernie Sanders and Stacey Abrams, the architect of the Democrats' victory in the state.

And now, despite being branded by Republican rival David Purdue as an "inexperienced young man who has never done anything", he arrives in the Senate and establishes himself as one of the new Democratic faces, one of those who - along with Pasionarian MP Alexandra Ocasio Cortez - is destined to take the party by the hand in the new century.