Warnock beats Walker in Georgia Senate runoff

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in Georgia's Senate runoff election on Tuesday, becoming the state's first Black candidate to win a full term in the U.S. Senate. "The people have spoken," Warnock said to a crowd of supporters, who broke into a chant of "six more years!" Walker, a former football star backed by former President Donald Trump, conceded, saying, "we put up one heck of a fight." Warnock's narrow victory, roughly 51.4 percent to Walker's 48.6 percent, gave Democrats a true majority with 51 seats in the 100-member Senate, firming up the party's control without the need for the power-sharing agreement in place over the last two years in the evenly divided chamber.