Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker will face off against incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock in a runoff election after neither candidate was able to secure over 50% of the vote in the state’s Senate race, according to a projection.
Decision Desk HQ made the projection at 11:42 a.m. EST. Gabriel Sterling, the Georgia secretary of state’s chief operating officer, said the runoff election will take place on December 6.
Warnock, the 53-year-old reverend from Atlanta, Georgia, was first elected to the Senate on January 5, 2021, after defeating GOP candidate Kelly Loeffler in a run-off election. Loeffler had been appointed to serve until an election, having replaced the late Johnny Isakson.
As a newcomer into politics, Walker spent much of his campaign tying Warnock to unpopular President Joe Biden and painted the Democrat as a divisive, out-of-touch progressive.
“Senator Warnock believes America is a bad country full of racist people,” Walker said in one…
