ATLANTA - Georgia’s U.S. Senate primary went into the wee hours Wednesday with the result far from certain.
With results trickling in very slowly in an election held with new voting machines and during the midst of a global pandemic, investigative journalist Jon Ossoff was on the edge of being forced into an August runoff for the right to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue.
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