Raphael Warnock, Herschel Walker advance to runoff for Senate seat in Georgia

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Raphael Warnock, Herschel Walker advance to runoff for Senate seat in GeorgiaThe runoff campaign will be a four-week blitz that, depending on the outcomes in other Senate contests, could reprise the 2020 election cycle, when two Senate runoffs in Georgia doubled as a national winner-take-all battle for Senate control.ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker will meet in a Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia after neither reached the general election majority required under state law, ensuring an expensive, bitter fight that could still determine which party controls the Senate going forward.It will be the second runoff for Warnock, who first won his seat in a Jan. 5, 2021, special election runoff alongside Democrat Jon Ossoff’s victory in a concurrent Senate runoff.In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump held rallies in several battleground states, injecting himself back into the headlines, recycling his false claims that the 2020 loss was fraudulent and reminding voters of his continuing rivalry with Biden.If Democrats hold Arizona and Nevada to keep their majority even without Georgia, Warnock might have an easier time making the contest a localized choice between himself and Walker."

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