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Walker Goes Down to Warnock

Why Georgia’s Senate runoff felt like a post-Trump election.
Warnock Election Night party
Sen. Raphael Warnock arrives to deliver a victory speech at his election night party in Atlanta Tuesday after defeating Republican challenger Herschel Walker. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

So that’s that; the midterms are over. On Tuesday, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock dashed Republicans’ hopes of maintaining a 50-50 Senate by defeating Republican Herschel Walker. By early Wednesday morning and with 95 percent of ballots counted, Warnock had 51.4 percent of the vote to Walker’s 48.6 percent.

Andrew Egger is White House correspondent for The Bulwark. He previously covered politics for The Dispatch and The Weekly Standard.

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