{"id":1762496,"date":"2022-12-04T14:26:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762496"},"modified":"2022-12-04T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T19:26:31","slug":"georgia-official-doubts-senate-runoff-winner-will-be-known-on-election-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-official-doubts-senate-runoff-winner-will-be-known-on-election-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Official Doubts Senate Runoff Winner Will Be Known On Election Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-official-doubts-senate-runoff-winner-will-be-known-on-election-night%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762496&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Georgia residents might have to wait at least one day to know the winner of Tuesday\u2019s Senate runoff between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Citing record-breaking early voting turnout, one state election official predicted that the results might not be apparent on election night as he expects a close contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re preparing for, you know, it being a very tight race,\u201d Georgia secretary of state\u2019s chief operating officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/georgia-senate-race-12-04-22\/index.html\">Gabriel Sterling told CNN\u2019s Pamela Brown<\/a> in an <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/cnr\/date\/2022-12-03\/segment\/11\">interview Saturday<\/a>. \u201cI anticipate we may not know on Tuesday night. It just, it really depends because it\u2019s up to the voters and they\u2019re, and they\u2019re showing up in droves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials have estimated more than 1.85 million Georgians have already voted, and two single-day records have been broken in about a week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/georgia-senate-runoff-smashes-early-voting-records-attracts-new-voters-rcna59981\">according to NBC News.<\/a> Sterling <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabrielSterling\/status\/1598883931532587009\">previously said<\/a> he expects the final tally in early voting, which ended Friday, to reach over 1.9 million as absentee ballots are counted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s obviously a lot of enthusiasm. \u2026 Both Democrats and Republicans can point to the turnout models and say, \u2018that\u2019s good for us\u2019 so nobody knows what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d Sterling told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Warnock is facing his second runoff in two years after neither he nor Walker reached the 50% support needed to win the general election in November. Chase Oliver, the Libertarian Party candidate, received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/09\/us\/elections\/georgia-runoff-chase-oliver.html\">little more than 2% support<\/a>, which would have been sufficient to put either Warnock or Walker over the threshold set by state law.<\/p>\n<p>While Warnock has the backing of top Democrats, including President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama, Walker, a former football star, is supported by former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the 2021 runoff election, in which Democrats swept both Senate seats in Georgia and took control of the chamber, the balance of power in the Senate will not be decided in the Peach State. Democrats already retained a razor-thin command with a win in Nevada, but having another seat could help party leadership bypass more centrist members who sometimes break ranks.<\/p>\n<p>A recent CNN poll shows Warnock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/02\/politics\/cnn-poll-georgia-senate-runoff-election\/index.html\">holding a narrow lead<\/a> over Walker. Data indicates Democrats are outpacing Republicans in terms of in-person and mail-in early voting as well as ad spending, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/georgia-senate-runoff-smashes-early-voting-records-attracts-new-voters-rcna59981\">NBC News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia residents might have to wait at least one day to know the winner of Tuesday\u2019s Senate runoff between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. Citing record-breaking early voting turnout, one state election official predicted that the results might not be apparent on election night as he expects a close contest. \u201cWe\u2019re &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1762499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}