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11.31am GMT
In all the furore surrounding the invasion of the Capitol yesterday by a pro-Trump mob, it shouldn’t be lost that Rev. Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff were elected to the Senate, giving the Democrats control and transforming how the first two years of a Biden presidency will look. Kenya Evelyn reports for us on how Black voters lifted the Georgia Democrats to those Senate runoff victories.
Black voters showed up in record numbers for Georgia’s Senate runoff election on Tuesday, handing the Democratic Senate candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff decisive victories against the Republican incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, respectively.
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11.23am GMT
Donald Trump doesn’t have any events on his public schedule today – although we are led to believe he will be giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to golfers Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player and Olympian Babe Zaharias.
Joe Biden definitely does have plans. He has announced Merrick Garland as his pick for attorney general, and will introduce him to the US public at an event in Wilmington, Delaware today.
11.14am GMT
Here’s the moment again at 3:41am local time in Washington DC that the joint session of Congress announced that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would be the next president and vice president of the US. Their inauguration is in 13 days time.
11.12am GMT
Welcome to our continued live coverage of US politics for Thursday, after a momentous and unprecedented day in Washington DC. Here’s a quick catch-up on where we are…
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