'Welcome To The New Georgia': Raphael Warnock On His Win In Senate Runoff

Democrat Raphael Warnock made history in one of Georgia's two Senate runoffs on Tuesday when he became the first Black person to be elected to the Senate from the state and the first Black Democratic senator from the South.

"Georgia certainly made me proud last night," Warnock told NPR's Noel King Wednesday morning. "They decided to send a kid who grew up in public housing to the United States Senate to represent the concerns of ordinary people."

Warnock, 51, won his race by over 50,000 votes, according to the Associated Press, which is outside the 0.5 percentage point margin that would enable Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler to request a recount.

Warnock reflected on the state's increasingly diverse electorate as a factor in defeating Loeffler.

"Welcome to the new Georgia," he said. "It is more diverse. It's more inclusive. It readily embraces the future. And I'm the product of that."