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Midterm Results are in, here’s What the Student Body is Saying About It Brian Kemp wins in a landside, Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker heading to a runoff. TONI ODEJIMI Staff Reporter
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esults for the 2022 Midterm elections are in, Georgia was one of the key battleground states where the fate of our elections would influence the balance in Washington. Stacey Abrams (D) lost her second consecutive run for Govenor, being beat by incumbent Brian Kemp (R) in a landslide defeat. Kemp won with 53.4% of the vote, Abrams at 45.8%, a 300,000 vote difference. In our Senate race, Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock were neck and neck all through Nov. 8th. The final results came out to 49.4% for Warnock and 48.5% for Walker, a difference of 35,000 votes. Since neither candidate achieved the required 51% of the votes to be declared a winner, the Senate race will go to a runoff. This will be contested next month, with Election Day being on Dec. 6th, early voting starting a week earlier, Nov. 28th. This seeming dichotomy in our state’s elections reflect a national trend. What was predicted to be a “Red Wave” sweeping across the country only panned out to a narrow advantage. Republicans should control the House of Representatives but only by a small margin. Polls taken on national feelings towards the two parties in the months leading up to the election slowly took the edge off of the GOP, spurred on by multiple cultural issue that took place within that time.
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For more details on how a runoff election works, and to check your registration status, go to georgia. gov/election-2022.
53.4% Brian Kemp (R)
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