Wednesday 9 November 2022 05:20 PM US Midterm elections 2022: Georgia official says Walker-Warnock Senate race ... trends now
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Georgia's COO of the secretary of state's office Gabriel Sterling said it is 'safe' to assume the hotly contested Senate race between incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker will head to a runoff.
'While county officials are still doing the detailed work on counting the votes, we feel it is safe to say there will be a runoff for the US Senate here in Georgia slated for December 6,' Sterling wrote on Twitter.
He added a GIF of two men eating at Buffalo Wild Wings and watching football with the caption 'the only thing that could make this better is overtime.'
As of 10:30 a.m., 98 percent of the votes are counted and Warnock is in the lead by 30,000 votes - 1,937,036 to Walker's 1,901,724.
If neither candidate breaches the 50 percent threshold, the race heads to a December 6 runoff, per Georgia's election law. A third-party Libertarian will likely keep either candidate from cinching a majority.
The path is reminiscent of 2020 for Warnock, when he was forced into a runoff with then-incumbent GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler and came out on
