Update….
There WILL be a Georgia US Senate Run off Dec. 6 ….
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In Georgia….
In the US seanate race you have get 50% of the vote to win…..
Democratic Senator Warnock leads by 35,000 votes , but is slightly under 50% and isn’t expected to get there…..
A run off election would be around December 6….
A run off could probably help Warnock since the voters Walker was probably helped by voters going Republican for GOP Governor Kemp stronger than Stacey Abrams….
Georgia voters are once again bracing to become the center of the political universe as the Senate race here appears likely to extend into a December runoff.
As of Wednesday morning, Sen. Raphael Warnock led Republican Herschel Walker by just over 35,000 votes with nearly all the votes counted, but neither candidate is expected to clear 50 percent, a requirement of Georgia law to avoid a runoff. That puts Warnock and Walker on track to go head-to-head on Dec. 6 in a race that could end up determining control of the Senate.
Warnock stopped short of formally declaring that he expected a runoff when he addressed roughly 50 diehard supporters at around 2 a.m. on Wednesday. “We’re not sure if this journey is over tonight or if there’s still a little work yet to do,” he said.
Hours earlier, on Tuesday night, Walker told his supporters that he did not “come to lose.”
A runoff would jump start a four-week blitz here, likely drawing millions more in campaign spending to a state that’s weathered five years of non-stop, history-making elections. It would also extend a deeply negative campaign filled with TV ads attacking both candidates’ personal lives. Walker has tried to cast Warnock as a rubber-stamp for President Joe Biden’s agenda, while Warnock has painted Walker, a first-time candidate with a controversial personal history, as unqualified for office….
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The logistics of the 2022 runoff will look different than 2021, after the Republican-controlled Georgia legislature passed a law last year that significantly changed the rules. Most notably, they shortened the runoff period from nine weeks to four weeks. But it also restricted early voting during the runoff and essentially eliminated the ability to register new voters during that period, which Democrats had used to great effect in 2021.