Incumbent Democratic Georgia State Senator Raphael Warnock has acknowledged that the race pitting him against Republican candidate Herschel Walker for a Senate seat «is too close to call,» and warned of the possibility that a winner may not be declared tonight.
Warnock has addressed his supporters in Atlanta about 02.00 local time (08.00 Spanish peninsular time), when the results are not yet final because of the small distance with his Republican rival, in a race that with 96 percent of the scrutiny leaves both parties on tenterhooks.
For the moment, the Democratic candidate has obtained 49.1 percent of the votes, while Walker has obtained 48.8 percent of the ballots, both with a difference of barely 10,000 votes.
It is necessary for one of the two candidates to get 50 percent to be declared the winner. If this figure is not achieved, both Senate aspirants will have to face a run-off election, several months later, which will define which of the two is the winner.
«Whether it’s tonight, tomorrow or four weeks from now, we will listen to the people of Georgia,» Warnock said in remarks reported by CNN.
«We’re not sure if this journey is over today, or if there’s still some work to be done, but here’s what we know. We know that when they finish counting the votes from today’s election, we will have received more votes than my opponent,» he explained.
The campaign for the race for the Senate seat for the State of Georgia has been peppered with controversy due to the existing accusations against the Republican candidate, the anti-abortionist Walker, who pressured a woman to terminate her pregnancy, which led the opposition to accuse the legislator of being a «hypocrite».
Georgia solidified itself as one of the most competitive states in the 2020 presidential election. Warnock also failed to reach 50 percent in the first round in 2020, so he had to face again in a special election day two months after the ‘midterm’.
