Legislative
Control of Congress still hangs in the balance with Georgia’s Senate race headed for run-off
Tuesday’s midterm elections saw impressive voter turnout numbers, and dealt some surprise victories and blows to both parties, but the hotly-contested Senate race in Georgia is officially headed for run-off election in a month’s time, delaying the verdict over which party will control the United States Senate.
Incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock, who was elected in 2020, technically leads his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, in the vote tally by a small number of votes, but according to state election rules, since neither candidate managed to secure 50 percent of the vote, the two will head to a run-off election that will take place on December 6.
Warnock addressed supporters on Tuesday night as the election results were still coming in, telling them that whether the election headed into a run-off or not, “…here’s what we do know: We know that when they’re finished counting the votes from today’s election that we’re going to have received more votes than my opponent.”
For his part, Walker assured his supporters on election night that he “did not come here to lose.”
Depending on the final results of some other key Senate races across the country, Georgia’s run-off election could decide which party controls the United States Senate for the foreseeable future.
The Nevada Senate race between Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican Adam Laxalt remains uncalled for either candidate, as does the Arizona race between incumbent Mark Kelly and Blake Masters. Both Laxalt and Masters are Trump-endorsed GOP candidates.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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