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Georgia Senate race between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker: 5 things to watch

ATLANTA — It's election day, once again, in Georgia. Soon residents of this Southern battleground state can breathe a sigh of relief that another election season is over — and with it a bombardment of negative campaign ads featuring candidates' ex-wives and bizarre stump speeches delving into the relative merits of vampires and werewolves or the plotline of "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of ...
Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks as left to right, Republican National Committeewoman for Georgia Ginger Howard, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, Walker’ s wife Julie Blanchard and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley listen during a campaign rally on Dec. 5, 2022, in Kennesaw, Ga. Herschel Walker...

ATLANTA — It's election day, once again, in Georgia.

Soon residents of this Southern battleground state can breathe a sigh of relief that another election season is over — and with it a bombardment of negative campaign ads featuring candidates' ex-wives and bizarre stump speeches delving into the relative merits of vampires and werewolves or the plotline of "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby."

But first Georgians must determine the victor of the last U.S. Senate battle of the 2022 election cycle: a runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.

Warnock, the senior pastor of the Rev. Martin Luther King's Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, in a Jan. 5, 2021, special election that helped Democrats claim control of the Senate. Now he's seeking a full six-year term. Neither Warnock nor Walker,

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