BREAKING Midterm update: Georgia Senate race advances to runoff
Warnock and Herschel will compete once again on Dec. 6 after ending the general election with 49.4% and 48.5% of the vote, respectively, as of Wednesday afternoon. Georgia law requires the top two candidates to advance to a runoff if no one nabs a majority of ballots cast.Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver took 2.1% of the vote, which the two front-runners will fight for in the runoff.
The situation is similar to what played out in Georgia's 2020 Senate election, in which both the special Senate election between John Ossoff and David Perdue ended with a Democratic victory in the runoff that decided majority control of the upper chamber. The special election that Warnock ultimately won also advanced to a runoff in 2020.Republicans did well in other statewide Georgia races, with Gov.
Republicans need a net gain of just one seat in order to take control of the Senate but lost a seat Tuesday night when Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeated Dr. Mehmet Oz to take control of the seat formerly held by Sen. Pat Toomey . The GOP held on to Ohio's open Senate seat with J.D. Vance's victory over Rep. Tim Ryan but has not picked up any elsewhere.
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