Georgia Voters Head to the Polls for Senate Runoff Race Between Warnock and Walker

(R) Former NFL player Herschel Walker speaks by video feed during the largely virtual 2020 Republican National Convention broadcast from Washington on Aug. 24, 2020. (2020 Republican National Convention/Handout via Reuters); (L) Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Raphael Warnock speaks on his campaign's Youtube account after the runoff election against Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler in Atlanta, Ga., on Jan. 6, 2021. Warnock for Georgia/Social Media via Reuters

Voters went to the polls on Tuesday to cast ballots in Georgia’s Senate runoff race between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Republican former football star Herschel Walker after neither candidate garnered 50 percent of the vote in the Nov. 8 midterms.

A runoff, under Georgia state law, is an additional election that is used to determine the winner of a race if neither candidate gets 50 percent. In the Nov. 8 midterm election, Warnock had led Walker by about 37,000 votes.