January 6 was a day that will be remembered in the history books as a day of insurrection incited by the president himself.

But there was another piece of political news that day. Both of Georgia's Senate seats went in a runoff election to Democrats.

Reverend Raphael Warnock's victory was declared early in the

morning, followed by John Offsuff's win in the afternoon. And those Georgia seats will give the Democratic

Party control of both houses of Congress, as well as the presidency. We've been checking in throughout

this election with our Atlanta-based correspondent Charles Bethay. And the day after the news

broke, he spoke with Dorothy Wicenden on our podcast, Politics and More. Here's Dorothy.

Welcome back, Charles. Thank you so much.

Especially in an incredibly busy week for you. I really appreciate it. Let's start with Georgia,

your home territory. You are a seventh generation

Georgian I just discovered and a close watcher of state politics. So I wanted to hear how the

election looked from your perspective. Early voting began on December 14th. What do we know about

how that went? And what was the state of the race going into election day?

Well, the early voting numbers were really, really huge, and they favored Democrats. There was a

margin for the Democrats of something like 250 to 300,000 votes going into election day. That was a huge margin, a huge

cushion that they'd created. There had been a real push to get Democrats out early and

knowing that Republicans tend to show up on election day. And also knowing that Republicans

tend to do better in runoffs in this state, the Democrats. I think

Republicans had won something like the last 14 out of 15 runoffs in this state. So there was a

huge amount of energy and effort put into changing that from happening again.

So Georgia, as we know, has a long, very long history of voter suppression targeting communities of color.

But I haven't heard any reports of egregious irregularities at voting sites this time.

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