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Midterms: 2022 US Midterm ElectionsfileBy winning the last senator seat at stake in Tuesday’s midterm elections in a runoff watched across the country, Democrats are strengthening their Senate majority and adding to the disastrous record of the former president’s champions at .
This finally ends the midterms: In the state of Georgia, the outgoing Democrat Raphael Warnock was re-elected Senator on Tuesday against former American football star and conservative right candidate Herschel Walker. This final act of the 2022 electoral cycle in the United States consisted of a runoff, ie a second round dictated by a specific feature of Georgia’s electoral law when neither candidate received 50% of the votes in the November election. This rare provision, which has an equivalent only in Louisiana, was introduced in 1964 by the segregationist establishment to squeeze the black electorate (about one-third of registered voters) from Democratic representation. One episode among others of the long-running, and far from over, struggle over access to civil rights for all in this state emblematic of the old racist South that has lasted into recent years