ELECTION RESULTS: Warnock secures Georgia Senate seat in runoff election
Published: Dec. 6, 2022 at 3:46 PM EST|Updated: Dec. 6, 2022 at 8:13 PM EST
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - December 6 marked Election Runoff Day in Georgia, where Senator Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Hershel Walker.
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As a result of Warnock’s win, Democrats now have the 51-49 majority in the Senate.
Watch below to see Walker’s concession speech:
The runoff was brought to a close a bitter fight between Warnock, the state’s first Black senator and the senior minister of the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, and Walker, a former University of Georgia football star and political novice who has campaigned with the support of former President Donald Trump, according to Associated Press.
WTVM provided full coverage of the results tonight.
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