May 18, 2024
ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker were locked in a tight race in Georgia on Tuesday night as elections officials continued to count ballots in the state that determined partisan control of the Senate nearly two years ago and could do so again in these midterm elections.
The question is whether either contender can win the contest outright or they head to a Dec. 6 runoff. Georgia requires a majority to win statewide office, and with incomplete returns showing a close race with a third-party candidate on the ballot, it remained possible that neither Warnock nor Walker will surpass the 50% threshold.
“We're not sure if this journey is over tonight or if there's still a little work yet to do,” Warnock told supporters who remained in an Atlanta hotel ballroom just before 2 a.m. Wednesday.
Walker, a celebrity athlete turned politician, offered his supporters an optimistic view hours earlier at his campaign's election night party in suburban Atlanta.
“I don't come to lose,” Walker said during his brief remarks.
