minutes and in and out and voting but they are coming to vote. and they re talking to me about why they re choosing senator warnock to go back to the senate. what made you vote on election day instead of early voting. the nostalgia of it all. i wouldn t want the other person to think that they were going to get it so i just felt like today to be here to give warnock this, to be a part of this, it meant a lot. it meant much more today than it has in any other previous runoff election. i was going to vote rain, shine, sleet or snow today. my pastor, who did not vote. i was so embarrassed because i couldn t raise my hand. reporter: look, a lot of people, obviously more than 1.85 million people early voted we just lost dianne.
turnout overall today. will it be 1.1 million or 1.4 millionch that is hard to predistrict and it remain to be seen. and a ton of interest in this runoff. early voting numbers breaking records. 1.85 million ballots were cast during the shortened voting period. the bottom line is turnout today will be key. and of course, both candidates, raphael warnock and herschel walker are hammering this message home. listen. the best thing i ve ever done, including the heisman trophy, best thing i ve done is run for office right here. a vote for my opponent is a vote for joe biden. and a vote for chuck schumer. matter of fact, call your father and your mother, your sister and your brother. call laddie daddy and everybody. tell them it is time to vote. tell them that a vote is a kind of prayer for the world we
challenger herschel walker spending the closing days getting out what is left of the vote. if you don t have a friend. go make a friend and get them out to vote. reporter: with more than 1.85 million ballots already cast, the incumbent democrat warning supporters not to leave anything on the field. we are on the verge of victory. but i don t want us to do the victory dance before we actually get into the end zone. reporter: warnock leaning on his senate record and sharpening his criticism of walker s fitness for office and personal background. he was an amazing running back. and he will need those skills because come tuesday, we re going to send him running back to texas where he actually lives. reporter: walker, a georgia football legend taking advantage of the bulldogs playing the s.e.c. championship game in atlanta, meeting fans at a tailgate on saturday but playing the role of a underdog on sunday
warnock. but if white republicans across the state show up for walker, it could propel him to victory. which means this race could all come down to tomorrow and tomorrow s turnout. the runoff election has already seen record early voter turnout, especially in democratic-leaning counties. according to the secretary of state s office, 1.85 million voters have cast early ballots through the weekend. almost all of them in person. but republicans won the day off, election day vote. the choice between georgians is stark. as senator warnock spoke about this weekend on reflecting on his previous runoff victory just two years ago. watch. on january 5th georgia sends an african american man and a jewish man, both touched in different ways by john lewis. i was his pastor. jon was his mentee. sending us both to the senate on january 5th. and then on january 6th the most
georgia tech where raphael warnock will be holding a rally with students, he will have fellow democrat senator ossoff and the first member of gen z to be elected to congress. the warnock campaign feels good, but the has been warning supporters not to celebrate before they reach the end zone. looking at some of the more than 1.85 million early votes that have already been cast, breaking them down roughly a third of them come from black voters. it is actually a larger percentage by just a few points than was back two years ago in that runoff election when warnock won his first bid to the senate. we re looking at some of that especially in terms of the latest poll that you referenced. when black voters this georgia, likely black voters, were asked who they preferred, they said warnock 96% to 3% for herschel