Democrat Raphael Warnock makes history with Senate win in Georgia

Raphael Warnock (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)

Democrat Raphael Warnock has won one of Georgia’s two US Senate runoffs, becoming the first black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the Democrats’ reach.

Mr Warnock, a pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr preached, defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler.