Warnock Wins Georgia US Senate Race!

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia is headed back to the US Senate.

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On Tuesday, the incumbent US Senator beat Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a hotly contested runoff race that officially put an end to the 2022 election season and the previously expected Republican “red wave.” Neither candidate received at least 50% of the vote during the November midterms which forced this winner-take-all election.

With 99% of the vote in as of this writing, Sen. Warnock received 50.9% of the vote while Walker received 49.1%. Initially, the Georgia runoff was expected to decide which political party would control the US Senate. However, Democrats held control at an even 50-50 (with Vice-President Harris breaking any tie votes) when incumbent Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto won reelection in Nevada during the November election. Now, Democrats have won 1 additional seat — a victory that will no longer require the vice-president to break a tie and will weaken the power of Democratic holdouts such as Sen. Sinema of Arizona and Sen. Manchin of West Virginia.

“I wanna say thank you from the bottom of my heart —  and to God be the glory,” Sen. Warnock said during his victory remarks.  “After a hard fought campaign — or should I say campaigns — it is my honor to utter the 4 most powerful words spoken in a democracy: ‘The people have spoken.'”

Political pundits are already dubbing the loss of Herschel Walker as a loss for Donald Trump. Trump hand-picked Walker (and squashed other more qualified GOP candidates) because he believed Walker’s ethnicity (both Walker and Warnock are Black), as well as his NFL history as a Heismann Trophy winner, would work to his advantage — particularly among Black voters. However, an unending stream of verbal gaffes and stories of vampires, contradictory positions on abortion and multiple children out of wedlock, as well as a perception of utter incompetence sank the former pro football player long before a single vote was cast. Additionally, a fast-rising anti-Trump tsunami among Republican voters ultimately worked against Walker in the end.

Republicans, we say we don’t play “identity politics” and then you ran this man mainly because he was the same skin color as his opponent with no background other than football. A boring old Republican could have won.

— Christian Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) December 7, 2022

With the State of Florida increasingly becoming a Republican stronghold, Georgia is surprisingly becoming somewhat of a “blue” state. Joe Biden won in Georgia during the 2020 presidential election. Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff defeated Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler soon thereafter. Now, Georgia has reelected Sen. Warnock to a full 6-year term. Metro areas like Atlanta (with a sizeable amount of African-American voters) are credited with turning the once-ruby-red State of Georgia into an unexpected purple.

So, as of January of 2023, Democrats will remain in control of the US Senate and will gleefully return to Capitol Hill with 1 extra victory in their back pocket just for good measure.

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Sen. Raphael Warnock wins Georgia runoff race.