Democrat Warnock wins Georgia Senate runoff

  1. Home page
  2. Politics

Created:

Von: Katja Thorwarth

The runoff election in Georgia for the last vacant Senate seat seems to have been decided. Forecasts predict a defeat for ex-President Trump’s candidate.

  • Midterms: A runoff election is held in Georgia democrats and Republicans. It’s about the last seat in the senate.
  • Duel: Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock is kicking the republican Herschel Walker an.
  • Read everything about the runoff election in our news ticker.

Update from December 7, 2022, 4.40 a.m.: According to forecasts by US television stations, Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock has won the eagerly awaited Senate runoff in the US state of Georgia. Warnock won over former Republican American football star Herschel Walker, who was supported by ex-President Donald Trump, the broadcasters reported on Tuesday evening (local time). This will allow the Democrats of US President Joe Biden to strengthen their previously wafer-thin majority in the Senate.

According to forecasts, Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock is ahead in the runoff election. © John Bazemore/dpa

‘Close race’ expected in Georgia runoff

+++ 9.55 p.m.: The first results of the runoff election could be announced earlier. According to a report by the New York Times begin reporting totals soon after the polls close at 7 p.m. local time.

But according to the Office of the Secretary of State, before the results are announced, a “sanity check” should be carried out to ensure that votes are not invalidated after all. Therefore, it could take until 11 p.m. at the earliest and therefore 5 a.m. Central European Time before it is clear whether Walker or Warnock will win the race.

Georgia runoff: ‘Prepare for a close race’

+++ 6.21 p.m.: Polling stations in the state of Georgia in the US opened at 7 a.m. (1 p.m. CET) and will close their doors at 7 p.m. (local time). The last votes can be cast until 1 a.m. on Wednesday in the Central European time zone. There may not yet be any reliable information on the results at this point in time.

“We’re preparing for it to be a very close race,” Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer of Georgia’s secretariat of state, told CNN. US authorities could only provide information on the outcome of the election on Wednesday: “I assume that we will not know by Tuesday evening,” Sterling continued. It depends entirely on the voters, “and they come in droves”.

USA: Runoff election for contested Senate seat in the state of Georgia begins

First report from December 6th: Washington/Atlanta – Four weeks after the midterms has in the US state of Georgia the runoff started for the last seat in the Senate. The polling stations opened on Tuesday morning (local time). In the election, Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker against each other again. Neither of the two got more than 50 percent of the votes in the first attempt in the congressional election – according to the electoral law in Georgia, a runoff election was therefore necessary.

The Democrats had already secured a wafer-thin majority in the Senate in the election at the beginning of November. You now have the chance to possibly expand this by one seat. According to German time, the polling stations close on Wednesday.

Runoff election in Georgia: the last seat in the Senate is elected

As of now, the Democrats have 50 out of 100 seats in the Senate, giving them a razor-thin lead. The reason is that the Democratic US Vice President Kamala Harriswho is also President of the Senate, is allowed to vote in a deadlock.

That means even if Republicans win in Georgia, the Senate balance of power would be 50-50, as it has been for the past two years — and Harris would keep the Democrats a slim majority. Should the Georgia Democrats win, they would have 51 Senate seats and no longer need Harris to tip the scales. (ktho/na/dpa)

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.