this is deja vu news live from berlin the democratic party steps closer to control of the u.s. senate reverend raphael warnock wins his race on seating his republican rival george as other run off is also shifted in the democrats favor the party needs to win both seats to gain a majority in the senate and to ed vance president elect biden suggest. also coming

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have yet to be called officially but projections put democratic challenger raphael warnock ahead of the incumbent kelly lefler and the other contest democrat john also has taken a slim lead over republican david perdue democrats need to win both seats to take control of the senate and to help president elect joe biden and vance his legislative agenda. now if the result is confirmed of the democrats were not would become the 1st black senator to be elected from the south here's what he said a little while ago. so i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in america. could only happen here. we were told that we couldn't win this election. but tonight. we proved that with hope. hard work and the people by our side. in the thing. is

possible. we have a reporter aaron tilton with us now with the latest on the story aaron what can we say at this point about who has control of the senate well it's looking like democrats are moving ever so clover more closely to control complete control the government during the biden ministration now multiple outlets united states have called the election already for the democratic challenger for warnock and that puts the democrats within one seat of taking the senate now of course as you were saying earlier that basically would mean that joe biden could actually have carte blanche to push through his his agenda when he takes office on the 20th so now all eyes are really on the fight between john ourselves and dave are doing at the moment john also is leading by around 910000 votes i mean it's a razor thin majority in the state so it does point to the fact that we're most likely to be seeing recounts moving forward but at the moment it seems like that

needle is ticking slightly towards the democrats favor we're talking about the possibility of 2 democratic senators from georgia we know that the state went for joe biden the.