All you need to know as US Senate race goes to runoff in Georgia

Though both Walker and Warnock garnered more than 1.9 million votes each, they failed to earn a simple majority with 50 percent of the vote [Alex Wong/Getty Images]

The fate of a potentially decisive United States Senate seat will not be determined this week, as a hard-fought midterms contest in Georgia is now moving to a runoff next month between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican hopeful Herschel Walker.

Though both candidates garnered more than 1.9 million votes each, they failed to earn a simple majority with 50 percent of the vote.