Warnock, Walker hope for outright Georgia Senate victory, must surpass 50% threshold

Georgia's Senate contest between Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock may not be determined Tuesday night. If neither candidate surpasses 50% of votes, it would set up a Dec. 6 runoff.

That would set up a four-week blitz ahead of a Dec. 6 runoff that, depending on the outcomes in other Senate contests, could reprise the 2020 election cycle, when two Senate runoffs in Georgia doubled as a national winner-take-all battle for Senate control. The chamber is now divided 50-50 between the two major parties, with Vice President Kamala Harris giving Democrats the tie-breaking vote.

A runoff also would mean another month of Warnock hammering Walker, a sports celebrity turned politician, as unqualified and Walker assailing Warnock as a rubber-stamp for the White House.