The Democrats owe their new control of the Senate to Black voters in Georgia
It’s also worth remembering that the success of candidates like Raphael Warnock is a product of years of voter engagement
In The Guardian, I stress the importance of Black voters in turning the state blue: “The voter turnout work that began years ago in reliably Republican Georgia overcame efforts to suppress the votes of its Black citizens and managed to elect its first Black senator. Perhaps more importantly, those efforts not only changed the state, but they have the potential to shift the direction of the country after the Trump era.”