Asian Americans hold outsize role in Georgia's Senate runoffs

Second-generation voters mobilize families with control of Senate at stake

President-elect Joe Biden campaigns for Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, Georgia's Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate, in Atlanta on Dec. 15. © Reuters

MARRIAN ZHOU and ALEX FANG, Nikkei staff writers

January 5, 2021 07:26 JST

NEW YORK -- Georgia's two runoff elections Tuesday will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate as well as how much President-elect Joe Biden can accomplish in his first term, and the state's energized Asian American voters have a strong chance to swing the outcome.