‘Great night for America’: Atlanta residents praise voter turnout at Georgia runoff vote following Warnock victory

A day after a run-off vote in Georgia sent Democrat Raphael Warnock back to the U.S. Senate over hopeful candidate Herschel Walker, residents in Atlanta applauded the huge voter turnout in the state. “What I think about what happened last night is that it was a great night for America because Georgia had record turnout,” Atlanta resident Donna Burchfield said. “And it was very much an anti-Trump vote.”

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