{"id":264265,"date":"2022-12-06T21:46:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=264265"},"modified":"2022-12-06T21:48:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:48:35","slug":"us-senate-stays-with-democratic-majority-warnock-defeats-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=264265","title":{"rendered":"US Senate Stays With Dem Majority Warnock Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a runoff election in Georgia. The victory by the state\u2019s first Black senator ensures Democrats an outright majority in the chamber for the rest of President Joe Biden\u2019s term. That means the party won\u2019t have to negotiate a power-sharing deal with Republicans and Vice President Kamala Harris won\u2019t be called on as much to break tie votes. Warnock\u2019s win solidifies Georgia\u2019s place as a Deep South battleground: Voters here returned the Democrat to the Senate in the same cycle they reelected Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and chose an all-GOP slate of statewide constitutional officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a runoff election in Georgia. The victory by the state\u2019s first Black senator ensures Democrats an outright majority in the chamber for the rest of President Joe Biden\u2019s term. That means the party won\u2019t have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":264266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264269,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264265\/revisions\/264269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}