Georgia voters reelected Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in the fierce Senate runoff election against Trump pick and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, NBC News projects.
Warnock's win gives Democrats a bit more control in the almost evenly split Senate with 51 votes, and it may make it easier for U.S. President Joe Biden to get bills passed over the next two years of his term. It reduces leverage for moderate Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who have held up passage of some of Biden's signature bills in his first two years in office.
The Georgia race went to a runoff after neither Warnock nor Walker won more than 50% of the vote in the November general election.
The high-profile election has been marked by dead-even polling, heavy spending and a cascade of personal scandals that have spilled into the runoff period.