ATLANTA – A media executive backed by civil rights icon John Lewis is just short of the majority he needs to avoid a runoff election in Georgia’s Democratic primary for U.S.
Senate, a race it was still too early to call Wednesday. Ossoff was far ahead of two other candidates in his bid to challenge Republican U.S.
Sen. David Perdue in November. As of 12 p.m. Wednesday, he had just shy of 49% of the counted vote, trailed by Teresa Tomlinson and Sarah Riggs Amico.
Tomlinson and Amico were separated by less than 2 percentage points in the race for the second spot in a potential runoff. Counties across Georgia were in the process Wednesday of assessing what still remains to be counted.