The U.S. Senate

 

Warnock, Georgia’s first Black senator, honors mother and ‘the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton’ (Washington Post headline)

 

In the other contest, David Perdue, the Republican whose Senate term ended on Sunday, and his Democratic challenger, Jon Ossoff, were neck-and-neck, with thousands of votes still to be counted, many of them from Democratic-leaning areas.

(N.Y. Times story) 

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 What this means for Alabama: If Ossoff also wins, Alabama's two U.S. Senators will have significantly reduced power. Republican Junior Senator Tuberville was already at the bottom of the heap, but Republican Sen. Shelby, Alabama's cash cow would lose his Appropriations Committee Chairmanship.

With Georgia turning blue...Alabama is left perhaps the reddest of the red states.