The Georgia Senate race will go to a second round of voting in December after both Republicans and Democrats failed to get enough votes to win.
The senator gave a speech at his election night. Sen. Warnock is in a very close race. They will go to a second round if neither candidate gets 50 percent plus one vote. The photo was taken by Michael M. Santiago.
Chase Oliver was the third candidate to win a vote.
According to the Secretary of State, less than 20,000 votes are needed to change the race.
If one candidate doesn't get the majority of votes in a federal election in Georgia, there will be a second election in December.
Democrats need two more wins to keep control of the Senate.
If Democrats win in Nevada and Arizona, they will have the majority in the upper chamber.
Walker, a former football player at the University of Georgia, was plagued by controversy throughout his campaign, but it didn't seem to affect his popularity in the polls. Two women came forward and said he paid for their abortions. In the weeks that followed, Walker denied the allegations and publicly scaled back his abortion stance, saying he supports Georgia's existing law that prohibits abortions after six weeks. Republicans, including former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority LeaderMitch McConnell rallied behind Walker in the wake of the allegations as they try to wrest control of the upper chamber from Democrats. Walker Warnock was in the lead in the polls going into Election Day. When Martin Luther King Jr. was co-pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, he was accused of being a hypocrite for supporting an abortion ban. The first black senator from Georgia was elected in the 2020 election by seven points.
Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp won re- election by 7 points.
The time frame for holding a runoff has been shortened by the state legislature from nine weeks to four.
The Georgia Senate race is likely to go to a runoff.
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