5 takeaways from election night in Georgia

Voters cast their ballots at the Smyrna Community Center on Nov. 8, 2022. (Kaitlin Kolarik/For WABE)

This story was updated at 2:53 p.m.

All the vetting, campaign launches, endorsements, speeches, rallies, hundreds of millions of dollars, national attention, mailers, robocalls, texts and ads, ads, ads came down to this — election night in Georgia on Tuesday.

There were several potential outcomes at play. Here’s what we know, what we don’t know and what’s next on this day after one of the most intensely watched elections in Georgia history.