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"Phenomenal" Black turnout won the Senate for Democrats in Georgia

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Election Twitter was blown away by Black voter turnout in the Georgia Senate runoffs.More than any other factor, the high turnout from Black voters in Georgia’s Senate runoff elections appears to have won .and have been called by Decision Desk. ; the contest was within the legal recount threshold as of Wednesday morning.It was a historic night: Georgia made Warnock the second Black senator from the South since Reconstruction. The big reason, according to Twitter’s most widely followed election analysts, was the remarkable level of Black turnout. Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman, who has also declared victory for both Democrats, called the figures “phenomenal.”Here's the story right now:1. Black turnout looks, frankly, phenomenal.2. Perdue/Loeffler are approaching Trump %s of the vote in a lot of deep red rural counties, but turnout there isn't anything special.3. It's getting harder to see a path for either R, but esp. Loeffler.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict)Turnout was high in general, hitting more than 80 percent of the turnout in the November general election. But turnout rates were slightly higher in Democratic strongholds (north of 90 percent in general) and especially in predominantly Black precincts.Turnout are as a share of general by type of precinct:&gt;80% Trump: 88%&gt;80% Biden: 92%&gt;80% Black: 93%&gt;50% college: 92%&gt;80% no college&amp;white: 87%Urban 91%Suburban 90%Rural 88%— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn)Looks like strong Black turnout is what's powering Democrats to likely victories in both Senate races.Counties that are &lt;10% Black barely shifted from the general election to the runoff.But majority Black counties shifted 4 percentage points left on average. — Ryan Matsumoto (@ryanmatsumoto1)Those margins, especially in populous and heavily Black Fulton and DeKalb counties, were decisive for the Democrats. Warnock’s 50,000-vote lead is significantly larger than President-elect Joe Biden’s 13,000-vote win over President Donald Trump in November; Ossoff is also currently outpacing the president-elect’s margin of victory. Randolph County — a small, rural majority Black community — essentially its November turnout; and a number of suburban Black counties 90 percent or more of their November numbers.According to , Ossoff saw his share of Black voters grow from 87 percent in the November general to 92 percent in the January runoff. It’s difficult to compare Black turnout in the general and runoff election for Warnock since his November race featured more than a dozen candidates, including several Democrats. However, both CNN and NBC News exit polls that Warnock won 92 percent of Black voters against Loeffler.The Democratic advantage with Hispanic voters also grew from November to January, with CNN’s Ryan Struyk reporting a 28 percent increase in support for Ossoff among that demographic.Nonwhite voters in Georgia per preliminary exit polls:Black voters:November: Ossoff (D) +76Jan runoff: Ossoff (D) +86Hispanic voters:November: Ossoff (D) +9Jan runoff: Ossoff (D) +30— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk)Black voter turnout has been the focus of former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams’s campaign to turn Georgia blue over the last four years. The New Georgia Project, which she co-founded, has 500,000 people to vote since 2014. As has reported, many other organizations, such as the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, also worked toward increasing Black voter participation.“We knocked on our 2 millionth door yesterday, we’ve made 5 million phone calls, 3 million text messages to Georgia voters,” Nsé Ufot, CEO of the voting rights group New Georgia Project, told ahead of the runoffs. “We were all surprised with the results of the November election, and I maintain Georgia is a battleground state.”Activists rooted in other communities — including and — did similar work.Abrams fell short in her own bid to be governor in 2018. But Georgia has now delivered twice for Democrats in the 2020 elections, first helping cement Biden’s win over Trump and now securing control of the Senate in the runoffs.Millions turn to Vox to understand what’s happening in the news. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all.Understand how policy impacts people. Delivered Fridays.

Election Twitter was blown away by Black voter turnout in the Georgia Senate runoffs.More than any other factor, the high turnout from Black voters in Georgia’s Senate runoff elections appears to have won .and have been called by Decision Desk. ; the contest was within the legal recount threshold as of Wednesday morning.It was a historic night: Georgia made Warnock the second Black senator from the South since Reconstruction. The big reason, according to Twitter’s most widely followed election analysts, was the remarkable level of Black turnout. Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman, who...

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