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It was a tremorous game for hours.

On Wednesday morning it was clear: the Democrats would win one of the two Senate seats in Georgia, which took place on Tuesday's runoff elections.

Her candidate, the Baptist pastor Raphael Warnock, 51, prevailed against the Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler, 50.

Loeffler was appointed senator in 2020, not elected.

The second race was still open on Wednesday morning.

Democrat Jon Ossoff, 33, and Republican Senator David Perdue, 71, were tied with 50 percent each.

With the victory of the Senate seat for the Democrats, a tie between the two parties in the second chamber of Congress is drawing closer.

So far, Republicans have held a majority in the Senate for many years.

Should the Democrats also win the second seat in Georgia, both parties would each have 50 senators in the second chamber of Congress.

Such a constellation simplifies governance for future President Joe Biden, 78. From now on.

In the event of a tie, the Vice President always decides.

In two weeks it will be Democrat Kamala Harris, 56.

The party of the future president should be able to win important votes.

The Senate soon had the task of deciding on ministers and top officials in the Biden / Harris administration.

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The double runoff election in Georgia was a specialty, it followed a tie race parallel to the presidential election two months ago.

Republican Senators Perdue and Loeffler both missed the necessary 50 percent of the vote.

Their Democratic challengers, Ossoff and Warnock, did better than expected.

The election of Perdue's seat took place regularly.

Loeffler had to face the citizen vote because she was appointed by the republican governor after the resignation of her predecessor in 2020, but not elected.

Georgia's election officer Brad Raffensperger said more than 4.5 million people had voted.

"That's a very, very high turnout," he said.

Postal ballot papers from Georgian military and overseas citizens will be accepted until Friday, provided they are postmarked by Tuesday.

The election on Tuesday is - despite the tight and in part still unclear outcome - a success for the Democrats.

The last election victory of a Democratic Senate candidate in Georgia was over 20 years ago.

The long conservative state has developed into a swing state.

Joe Biden had won the peach state for himself in the presidential election on November 3, 2020 - also quite tightly, with a lead of 11,779 votes.

That's why the outgoing President Trump recently asked the Georgia election officer during a mob boss-style phone call to "find" votes for him.

In Georgia, the future of the "next generation" is decided

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Biden had performed in Georgia on Monday.

Here, not only about the USA in the next four years, but also about the future of the "next generation", said Biden.

He was referring to his reform plans, for example in social and environmental policy.

Trump claims he won the presidential election nationwide as he did in Georgia.

His claims are insubstantial.

In 14 days the inauguration of the elected President Biden and the elected Vice President Harris will take place.

Trump then has to leave the White House.

For Trump and the Republicans, the double election is a serious setback.

The elected president held a rally in Georgia on Monday evening.

It was the last of the legendary campaign appearances of his tenure.

Here Trump had once again made unfounded claims about the presidential election ("I won").

He called the Senate elections as the "last line of defense" against the Democrats, against "socialism" and "communism".

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With remarks such as those about a “last line of defense” Trump shows that he himself is no longer thinking of a second term from January 20.

Trump did not say a word about what he wanted to achieve politically in this alleged government.

Losing at least one Senate seat is a serious setback for Trump at the end of his term in office.

Kelly Loeffler insulted her competitor Raphael Warnock as a “Marxist” during the election campaign, but she still lost the duel

Source: AP / Branden Camp

But it is also a defeat for the unconditional Trump loyalists.

Senator Loeffler had advertised herself as such.

Like a prayer wheel, she pointed out during the election campaign that she had always voted “100 percent” in Trump's terms in the Senate.

Her immoderate attacks against Warnock, whom she had denigrated as a “radical left” and “Marxist”, also came to nothing.