"I can't think of two better people to lead not only the nation but the've got to lead the world" says Civil Rights Legend Andrew Young. Yet, while Young calls the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White House 'wonderful', he says the mission is not completed. According to Young a Democratic President and Vice President will need a united Congress.
"I don't ever want us to stop and think that we're finished" says Young, adding, "the control of the United States Senate will make the difference between whether we have deadlocked confusion or the ability to take on the issues that are facing us with a united front and solve these issues as quickly as possible." Young points to coronavirus, rebuilding America's economy, and improving health care as problems that need to be "solved as quickly as possible."
With power in Washington D.C. at stake, all eyes are on the two Georgia Senate races. In one contest, Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s church, is challenging Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler in a January runoff. In the other, neither Republican Senator David Perdue nor challenger Jon Ossoff received 50 percent in Tuesday's election and therefore will face each other in the January runoff.
Young resides in Atlanta, which contributed to the state of Georgia going Blue, choosing a Democratic President, for the first time since 1992.
"I don't want anybody to let down and relax", says Young, "we've got to keep going right on through to January 5th."