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Warnock Skirts Eviction

Democratic senator Raphael Warnock won the Georgia Senate election on Tuesday, securing his first full six-year term and giving Democrats control of the upper chamber next year.

The race was a coup for Democrats, who had been forced to share some committee powers with Republicans over the past two years, even while holding a technical Senate majority thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote.

The Georgia race was one of the most competitive in the country, with outside groups spending over $380 million in the state, according to OpenSecrets. During the month-long runoff alone, Democrats outspent Republicans by a two-to-one margin, with Warnock and outside supporting groups pouring $57 million into the race, Fox News reported.

Walker’s win gives Democrats full control in the Senate, with 51 members compared to 49 for Republicans. Under a power-sharing agreement in the previous 50-50 Senate, Democrats controlled the committee chairmanships but both parties were allowed to appoint the same number of committee members.

Tuesday’s head-to-head rematch between Warnock and Walker came a month after the November election, when neither candidate was able to crack 50-percent in a race that included a third-party challenger. Under Georgia law, if no candidate wins a majority in the first race, the top two are required to compete in a runoff election.

In the final weeks of the campaign, Walker hammered Warnock over his church-owned apartment building’s attempts to evict low-income tenants, a story first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

The building, which is owned by Ebenezer Baptist Church where Warnock continues to serve as senior pastor, filed eviction proceedings against over a dozen residents since the start of the pandemic, including one who owed just $28.50 in late rent. The apartment complex has also been hit with multiple housing code violations by the City of Atlanta for overflowing trash, rodent and pest infestations and mold issues, according to records obtained by the Free Beacon. The complex hired a previously-convicted murderer as a maintenance man who went on to kill a tenant in 2020, and has had other crime and safety issues, the Free Beacon also reported.

Walker launched a seven-figure ad campaign last week that featured one tenant, a Vietnam war veteran, who the building tried to evict over $119 in late rent.

The ad also highlighted domestic abuse allegations against Warnock by his ex-wife Oulèye Ndoye, who told police he ran over her foot


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