GROVETOWN, Ga. — More than 2.5 million Georgians cast in-person and absentee ballots during the early voting period that ended Friday, but Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker were continuing their bus tour blitzes to get out every last vote.
“There’s no question that we are seeing record voter turnout, and I think that’s great. The turnout is high, the stakes are even higher. And you know, the thing about high voter turnout in our country is it’s still not as high as it ought to be, in my opinion,” Warnock told reporters here in Columbia County on Saturday. “I want to see eligible voters cast their vote. And so we’ll keep making the case.”
The race could well be heading toward a runoff, since Georgia law requires a candidate to secure a majority of the votes cast in order to win on Election Day. The runoff would take place on Dec. 6, about a month earlier than the runoffs for both of Georgia’s Senate seats last cycle, which didn’t happen until the calendar had turned to 2021. And just as it was in 2021, it is once again possible that as goes Georgia, so goes control of the Senate.
