Hours earlier, connected Tuesday night, Walker told his supporters that helium did not “come to lose.”
A runoff would leap commencement a four-week blitz here, apt drafting millions much successful run spending to a authorities that’s weathered 5 years of non-stop, history-making elections. It would besides widen a profoundly antagonistic run filled with TV ads attacking some candidates’ idiosyncratic lives. Walker has tried to formed Warnock arsenic a rubber-stamp for President Joe Biden’s agenda, portion Warnock has painted Walker, a first-time campaigner with a arguable idiosyncratic history, arsenic unqualified for office.
It could beryllium an eerie repetition of the 2021 runoffs, erstwhile Warnock and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) defeated their Republican opponents to present afloat Democratic power successful Washington and a 50-50 Senate. But the level of wealth and attraction Georgia mightiness gully volition hinge connected if different Senate Democrats bent connected successful choky races successful Arizona and Nevada, which would unit the equilibrium of powerfulness to beryllium decided backmost successful Georgia.
“Groups and donors volition walk wealth connected Georgia careless due to the fact that it’s an important Senate seat, but it’s orders of magnitude larger if power of the Senate is astatine play,” said 1 Democratic strategist progressive successful the Georgia race.
The logistics of the 2022 runoff volition look antithetic than 2021, aft the Republican-controlled Georgia legislature passed a instrumentality past twelvemonth that importantly changed the rules. Most notably, they shortened the runoff play from 9 weeks to 4 weeks. But it besides restricted aboriginal voting during the runoff and fundamentally eliminated the quality to registry caller voters during that period, which Democrats had utilized to large effect successful 2021.
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, meanwhile, easy avoided a runoff, clearing much than 53 percent enactment arsenic of Wednesday morning. Democrat Stacey Abrams failed to support up with Warnock’s margins passim the state, which nationalist and backstage polling indicated was apt passim overmuch of the fall.
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