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i Ss : = S “ s F “The 82-year-old hands that used.to pick somebody else's cotton went to the polls DITITITTITTTTT Is and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” Sen.-elect Warnock said in a live-streamed address in the wee hours of this morning. “The improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in America could only happen here.” A third of Georgia’s population is African American. In Fulton County, which as home to Atlanta is the state’s most populous, more in-person voters showed up Tuesday than on Nov. 3. But Democrats also benefited from major turnout across the more rural, majority African American counties such as Macon and Randolph that conyprise what’s known as the Black Belt. Loeffer saturated the airwaves with commercials that featured out-of-context clips of past sermons by Warnock at Ebenezer. She and her bevy of Republican consultants misrepresented standard-fare religious teachings as somehow sinister and anti- military. Loeffler’s attacks backfired by galvanizing Black voters who historically have not voted at high rates in runoff elections. More than 100 religious leaders condemned the “naked hypocrisy” and “blatant contradictions” of Loeffler’s message in an open letter last month. “We see your attacks against Warnock as a broader attack against the Black Church and faith traditions for which we stand,” the letter said. Biden's narrow victory there in November might also have motivated African Americans, who saw that their votes can make a real difference. Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost the governor's race in 2018, has also spent years sp FBI(21cv558)-102