Warnock is the state’s first Black senator and senior pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Originally elected last year in a special election to replace retired GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson, he has now been chosen to serve a full six-year term in the Senate. The Georgia residents in attendance for Warnock’s victory party Tuesday said they could not be more thrilled about the results.
"We're fighting for a democracy,” Erica Ferguson of Marietta, Ga., who attended the event with her college-aged son, told Yahoo News. “I have a son and I want to leave this world a better place for him and Rev. Warnock is the only answer."