Georgia Senate runoff live updates, analysis after Warnock win
Today, Democrats and Republicans alike are looking for lessons in the win of Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) over Republican challenger Herschel Walker in Georgia’s Senate runoff. With Warnock’s win Tuesday night, members of the Democratic caucus will hold 51 seats in the chamber, a pickup of one seat in midterm elections in which Republicans hoped to take control of the chamber. Walker was the fourth candidate backed by former president Donald Trump to lose a Senate race that Republicans thought they could win.
In Washington, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the spouse of Vice President Harris, is hosting a roundtable on the rise of antisemitism in the United States. President Biden has no public events on his schedule Wednesday.
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Analysis: How big a deal is a 51st Senate vote, anyway?
Tuesday was a big night for Democrats.
Writing in the Early 202, The Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer note that Democratic Sen. Raphael G. Warnock’s reelection in the Georgia runoff will give Democrats a critical 51st vote in the Senate. Per our colleagues:
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will take a victory lap Wednesday morning, holding a news conference to highlight Warnock’s win. One thing he’ll be certain to brag about: a 51st Democratic senator, which is likely to feel like a landslide margin after Schumer spent the past two years navigating an evenly divided Senate with Vice President Harris serving as the tiebreaking vote.Democrats said they are ecstatic to have some breathing room.“It’s a game changer,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said of the 51st vote.
You can read the full analysis here.
