You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Omnivaz of the PBS News Hour in for Gen White.

Let's get into the news roundup. While the 2022 midterms are officially over, Reverend

Raphael Warnock triumphed in Georgia's Senate runoff, beating Republican candidate

Hershel Walker. I want to say thank you to my mother who is here tonight.

You'll see her in a little while. But she grew up in the 1950s in

across Georgia, picking somebody else's cotton and somebody else's tobacco.

But tonight she helped pick her youngest son to be a United States son.

That means Democrats have gained a Senate seat. But Arizona's Kiersten Sinema has

thrown the party a curveball yet again. We'll get into all of that. Plus, the house

passes a bill to protect same-sex marriage. It heads to the president's desk, but

what does it really do? And the Trump organization is found guilty in New York.

But what does that really mean for the former president? Let's start now with

Georgia. Reverend Raphael Warnock took the state Senate seat with 51% of the vote.

Joining us is Anita Kumar. She's the senior editor of standards and ethics of

Politico. Also with us, Steve Clemens. He's an editor at large for

semifor and Mario Parker, National Politics Editor at Bloomberg News. Thank you all for joining us.

So let's kick it off with Georgia now. Anita, when you look at that Georgia Senate

runoff race, what is your biggest takeaway? Well, I'm going to do what we've been

doing so much lately and focus on Donald Trump. Of course, the Herschel Walker,

the Republican, was Donald Trump's hand pick choice candidate. And we saw that

the president, the former president, has really had a terrible year in terms of

those that he endorsed in not just Georgia, but Senate and gubernatorial candidates

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