Good evening once again. I'm Stephanie Rule. It is midnight on the East Coast and 9 p.m.

out West. And the final election of the 2022 midterms has officially been decided.

Senator Rafael Warnoch is keeping his seat and BC News projects. He has won the Georgia

runoff defeating Republican challenger, Herschel Walker. Warnoch will be Georgia's first

black senator to serve a full six year term in the Senate.

It is my honor to honor the four most powerful words ever spoken in a democracy. The people

have spoken.

The race, however, was extremely close with Warnoch and Walker swapping leads all night long.

Democrats will now have a clear majority in the Senate with 51 seats. Let's bring back

in tonight, Jason Johnson, a politics and journalism professor at Morgan State University.

And an MSNBC political contributor, he joins us live from Warnoch's campaign party.

Jason, you have been there all night talking about the enthusiasm, the excitement. They

got to be happier than ever right now.

Oh yes, Stephanie, the real party is just starting now. People are breaking out, going upstairs,

going downstairs, cheering. I got to tell you, Stephanie, this was a national election.

So you had people while the results were coming in, texting their friends in California

and Michigan and Pennsylvania and telling them what's happening on the ground. You've had

great celebrities, a lot of African American celebrities showing up because they wanted

to be a part of tonight's celebration. It is going to be a party throughout the city

of Atlanta for the next day and a half. Don't be fool. Rafael Warnoch said tomorrow we

go back to work, but the city of Atlanta going to be doing a different kind of work tonight.

What do people there think got Warnoch over the finish line? Again, it's extraordinary

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