Warnock Defeats Walker in Hard-Fought Georgia Senate Runoff Election

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) won reelection on Dec. 6 in Georgia’s Senate runoff—a victory that will give the Democrats a 51–49 margin in the chamber.
AP, Fox News, and CNN all called the race for Warnock around 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 6, with 94 percent of the vote counted and Warnock showing a 41,000 lead, about 1.2 percent. Then, at 12:17 a.m. on Dec. 7, the state reported Warnock ahead by 90,000 votes, about 2.5 percent, with more than 99 percent of the vote counted.
The lead had seesawed back and forth during the evening between the two candidates, but Warnock pulled ahead as Atlanta’s increasingly Democratic suburbs came through for him….}