BREAKING: Sen. Raphael Warnock has won reelection fending off a spirited challenge from Republican Herschel Walker while helping Democrats grow their thin Senate majority in the midterm elections after a bruising four-week runoff campaign.
Warnock was leading Walker 50.4% to 49.6% when the race was called, earning the senator his first full six-year term after ousting an appointed Republican incumbent in a special election runoff nearly two years ago. Walker’s defeat was a major blow to the Republicans. They capped a disappointing midterm election season with yet another loss that effectively surrendered a Senate seat to the Democrats, who saw their majority grow from 50 to 51.
Democratic incumbents presumed vulnerable won reelection in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Washington state, ensuring their party would at least retain its 50-seat majority, reliant on Vice President Kamala Harris’s tiebreaking vote, no matter what happened in Georgia. But after Sen.-elect John Fetterman flipped the seat being relinquished by retiring Sen. Pat Toomey , Warnock became the Democrat’s path to an outright majority of 51.
Democratic groups pounded Walker over a troubled personal life years ago that included multiple allegations of threats of violence against women, some of which was previously disclosed by the Republican, some of which was not. Walker, meanwhile, mounted an “Evict Warnock” bus tour, alluding to reports that the church the Democrat is affiliated with as a pastor has evicted poor residents from a housing complex it owns while providing the senator with a generous housing allowance.
The pro-Warnock attacks on Walker often resembled something along the lines of a television spot aired late in the race by Georgia Honor, a super PAC affiliated with Senate Majority PAC, the super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer .
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