What Warnock's runoff win means for his future and Georgia as a battleground state
Raphael Warnock won reelection in Georgia’s Senate runoff over Herschel Walker, cementing the state's battleground status Sen. Raphael Warnock's reelection in Georgia's runoff on Tuesday clinched a 51st seat for his party, cemented battleground status for his home state and kick-started discussion about how he succeeded this year unlike any other Georgia Democrats. After Warnock defeated Republican rival Herschel Walker on Tuesday night, ABC News spoke with operatives and local experts about how Warnock's win changes his career and politics in Georgia, a historically red state that began lightening to blue with President Joe Biden's win in November 2020. Warnock and fellow Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff followed Biden's victory by winning their seats in runoff races in January 2021. But the statewide ticket suffered near-total losses in November's midterms. In Stacey Abrams' rematch with Gov. Brian Kemp, whom she almost beat in 2018 -- in what was the...