Warnock led Walker with 49.42 percent of the vote to the Republican’s 48.52 percent with around 95 percent of ballots counted, per the New York Times tracker at the time of writing, while Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver had 2.07 percent.

If no candidate wins 50 percent of the vote once all ballots are counted, Georgia law requires that a runoff election take place on December 6 to determine who will represent the state in the Senate.

An NBC News exit poll provided insight into Georgians’ votes on Tuesday, including how different demographic groups cast their ballots.

The Claim

Twitter user @PSchmaling, who describes herself as a “former Republican,” drew attention to one result in the NBC News in a tweet that garnered significant attention on Tuesday.

“88% of evangelical Christians voted for Herschel Walker, not Warnock, the candidate who has devoted his adult life to Jesus Christ. Let that sink in,” the twitter user wrote.

That post had received 58,700 likes as of early Wednesday morning and it had been retweeted 12,900 times.

The Facts

Warnock is a reverend who serves as senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He’s held that position since 2005. Both of his parents were also pastors.

An NBC News exit poll conducted among people who voted in the Georgia Senate race asked respondents if they were “white born-again or evangelical Christian” and who they had voted for. The methodology is available on the NBC News website.

Thirty-three percent said they were, and 88 percent of that group said they had voted for Walker, while 11 percent said they had voted for Warnock and 1 percent for Oliver.

A further 67 percent said they were not white born-again or evangelical Christians and 69 percent of that group said they’d voted for Warnock, 28 percent for Walker, and three percent for Oliver.

The exit poll did not ask about other religious affiliations or ask non-white evangelical or born-again Christians to identify themselves as such, based on the information available on NBC News’ website.

Broadly, eighty-one percent of non-white Georgia voters said they supported Warnock versus 17 percent for Walker.

According to 2014 survey data from Pew Research, the racial composition of adults in Georgia who are “Evangelical Protestant” divides into 79 percent white and 10 percent Black.

Walker, backed by former President Donald Trump, had been concentrating on white evangelical Christians in his efforts to defeat Warnock, according to a report from The Washington Post on November 3, with the Republican saying he has been “redeemed by the grace of God.”

Newsweek has asked the Walker campaign for comment.

The Ruling

Misleading Material.

An NBC News exit poll of Georgia voters found that 88 percent of white born-again or evangelical Christians said they voted for Herschel Walker, but provided no figures on non-white voters who identify as born-again or evangelical Christians.

The original claim on Twitter did not include the fact that the poll asked specifically about a combination of race and religious belief. Therefore, the exit poll did not show that 88 percent of all self-identified evangelicals had voted for Walker, as the claim suggested.

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