ATLANTA — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker awoke on Sunday to a different political landscape that reconfigures the strategies of their Senate runoff after Democrats captured a hard-fought seat in Nevada that sealed the party’s control of the chamber.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s narrow victory means the Georgia race will no longer determine the balance of power or hold the key to President Joe Biden’s agenda the next two years.
But on the campaign trail on Sunday, over the airwaves and on social media feeds, the rivals and their supporters pressed the case to voters that the Dec. 6 overtime bout was more than an afterthought to Democrats or a consolation prize to Republicans.
