That would give Democrats an unlikely clean sweep of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives in the lengthy aftermath of the November presidential election. For Democrats, their success was affirmation that a “new Georgia” was rising in the south. Until the 1970s, conservative Democrats dominated Georgia politics. During that time, activists say the Democratic party fought to regain its foothold by returning to an old playbook. At a campaign rally on the eve of the runoffs, Biden praised Abrams’s work: “You’ve changed Georgia and you’re changing America.”

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2021 19:54 UTC