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Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock will defeat Republican challenger Herschel Walker in Georgia's high stakes Senate runoff election, The Associated Press ...

Warnock, a ferocious fundraiser, dramatically out raised Walker in the runoff campaign. Jon Ossoff swept Georgia’s twin Senate runoff elections, handing the Senate majority to the Democrats. Nearly two million Georgians cast ballots in early voting that concluded Friday, according to state officials. [CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING, OPINION, ON THE GEORGIA SENATE RUNOFF](https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/elections/georgia-runoffs) [Election Day](https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/state-and-local/elections). This time around, Warnock’s victory gives his party something it hasn’t had the past two years — control of committees, which gives Democrats the ability advance legislation and nominations more easily to the Senate floor. It prevents one person from holding out everything.” Two years ago, Warnock, the minister at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King, Jr. “Let me break it down for you. “The answer is a lot,” Obama highlighted as he answered his own question. [HIGH STAKES IN WALKER-WARNOCK GEORGIA SENATE RUNOFF SHOWDOWN](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/high-stakes-herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-senate-battle-georgias-runoff-showdown) [2022 midterm elections](https://www.foxnews.com/elections) gives the Democrats a 51-49 margin in the chamber and a bit of breathing room in their razor-thin control of the Senate.

After a long campaign cycle that stretched into December with a runoff election, Georgia elected Sen. Raphael Warnock to a full term.

Especially in the final weeks of the campaign, Warnock explicitly appealed to independents and Republican-leaning voters and on the trail often channeled his hero's emphasis on the overlap between activism and faith. [new era](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/12/1122118393/georgia-abrams-warnock-rural-black-voters-elections-democrats-midterms) in the state's politics. Walker, who Trump urged to run, was the [only](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/19/1137552158/the-path-looks-uncertain-for-democrats-after-losing-the-georgia-governorship-aga) Georgia Republican not to win outright in November. Across town, Walker snapped photos with fans tailgating outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Saturday, where his University of Georgia Bulldogs secured the SEC championship title. At campaign stops, supporters line up carrying hats, jerseys and footballs for the former football star to autograph. Multiple days broke records for daily, in-person voting, reflecting both enthusiasm and a Republican-backed election law that condensed the runoff window from nine weeks to four. "This is not about right and left," Warnock told voters before a rally with former President Barack Obama last week in Atlanta. The gap was most pronounced in Atlanta's northern suburbs, once Republican strongholds that have trended toward Democrats in recent years. He was also prone to gaffes and false claims, exaggerating his record in academics and business and displaying a loose grasp of policy. Senate, defeating Republican football legend Herschel Walker in a campaign that tested Georgia's position as a purple state and spurred debates about race, celebrity and partisan politics. Raphael Warnock has won a full term in the U.S.

Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock who has defeated his Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a runoff election.

The 60-year-old conservative is considered one of the best players in the history of American college football — a near-religious institution in the South — and went on to have a stellar career in the National Football League. Warnock grew up in poverty, born the eleventh of 12 children to a former soldier and preacher father and a mother who worked in the cotton fields. US President Joe Biden celebrated the strengthening of his party's majority in the Senate on Tuesday after Democrat Raphael Warnock was declared the winner of a runoff election in Georgia.

Georgia's runoff election captured national attention but with votes being tallied in the last U.S. Senate race of 2022 is finally over.

The Senate race in Georgia went to a runoff after neither candidate won more than 50% of the vote in the November midterm election.

[she too had had an abortion at his urging](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/herschel-walker-abortion-second-woman) when they were in a relationship in the 1990s. [worried some Republican allies](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/us/politics/georgia-senate-herschel-walker-raphael-warnock.html), with the candidate choosing to take five days off for Thanksgiving despite the close race and [Warnock’s serious fundraising advantage](https://www.ajc.com/politics/warnock-more-than-doubles-walker-fundraising-in-pre-runoff-period/YQJQWOJFKBBO5NZU2HCID2XFLU/). Lee](https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/09/us/georgia-confederate-memorial-holiday-feat). [critic of fatherless Black homes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpUmpj4oyjI&t=1670s), had a second son whom he had not publicly acknowledged and whose mother had sued the candidate for child support. [record-breaking turnout](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/29/georgia-senate-runoff-heats-up-in-early-voting-after-record-breaking-day.html) among early voters in the state. [President Joe Biden’s win](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/georgia-vote-results-biden-win) in 2020. He decided to give us the middle finger and air out all of his dirty laundry in public while simultaneously lying about it," Christian tweeted. “I want control of the Senate.” But despite both being Republicans, Kemp and Walker were not exactly peas in a pod. The 2021 election made Warnock the first Black senator elected to represent Georgia, and now, he's the first to do so for a full term. With more than 3.9 million ballots cast, less than 40,000 votes separated the pair in November. When the ballots were counted,

Donald Trump was hoping for a win on Tuesday amid the slow start to his latest presidential campaign, believing a victory for his longtime friend and ...

Still, the two men continued to speak by phone regularly in the lead up to the November midterms – and his ultimate defeat on Tuesday. He then drew a fresh round of criticism this week after calling for the “termination” of the US Constitution in a Truth Social post over the weekend to allow him to be reinstated as president. Trump’s physical avoidance of Georgia also raised questions about his ability to appeal to crucial swing state voters, who will likely hold the key to another term in Washington if he emerges on the other side of the 2024 GOP primary as the party’s nominee. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger refused to help Trump overturn Biden’s victory in the state, Trump waged an effort to exact political retribution, endorsing unsuccessful primary challenges against the two men. And move on from candidates who are objectively not good fits,” Erickson wrote in a Wednesday morning column, suggesting that Walker, a candidate besieged by domestic abuse allegations and claims that he paid for multiple abortions, didn’t lose solely because of Trump and but likely wouldn’t have entered the Senate race last summer had the former president not encouraged him to. “Donald’s got his problems right now and they are so numerous that I don’t think he can win and I want to back a winner,” this person said. But some aren’t sure he still wields the same power that he did even just months ago, before the November midterms, when GOP lawmakers and candidates were flocking to his Mar-a-Lago club for meetings and fundraisers and polls showed him drawing steady support among Republican voters. After not visiting Georgia ahead of the November midterm elections, Trump continued to keep his distance before the runoffs. He then goes and attacks two of the most popular Republican governors, the governor of Virginia and Florida, and now he talks about terminating the Constitution. “Trump backed the wrong candidates and lost virtually all of them in the Senate in 2022. 2024 is key to winning the future again. “Conservatives across the country are tired of losing.

Wednesday at 2 p.m. on Political Rewind: University of Georgia legend Herschel Walker has lost his bid for the U.S. Senate, falling short by around 95000 in ...

Incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Herschel Walker in the U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia.

Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Herschel Walker in the U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia. Raphael Warnock defeats Republican Herschel Walker