Herschel Walker speaks after losing Georgia Senate runoff race to Raphael Warnock | LiveNOW from FOX

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock will defeat Republican challenger Herschel Walker in Georgia's high stakes Senate runoff election, The Associated Press projects. Walker — a former college football legend who won a Heisman trophy at the University of Georgia — launched his Senate campaign in the summer of last year, after months of encouragement to run by former President Donald Trump, his longtime friend. "I am not going to make any excuses now because we put up one heck of a fight," Walker said. "I'm never going to stop fighting for Georgia."