ATLANTA — Former football star Herschel Walker has clinched Georgia’s Republican nomination for Senate, NBC News projects setting up a general election against Sen. Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent who also won his party’s primary Tuesday.
The race is projected to be one of the most competitive in the nation, and will be a rare case of two Black candidates competing in a critical Senate contest. With the Senate split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, both parties see Georgia as a must-win.
Deep Republican red for years, the state favored Democrat Joe Biden over then-President Donald Trump by a narrow margin in the 2020 presidential election before sending two Democrats to the Senate — including Warnock in a special election — in 2021.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-face-crucial-georgia-senate-race-rcna30185
