Jen Psaki explains the implications of the Georgia Senate runoff on the Republican Party in 2024.

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If the Republican midterm debacle was the final nail in Donald Trump's political coffin, Tuesday night's loss in Georgia is just heaping on the dirt.

Republican Herschel Walker lost in the Georgia Senate runoff against Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.

'Thank you, Georgia. We did it again,' Warnock tweeted moments after his admittedly close victory was projected.

He should be thanking Trump.

Nearly every single Trump-endorsed, MAGA-acolyte Senate candidate running in the 2022 midterm elections lost -- except one.

'Hillbilly Elegy' author, J.D. Vance, in what can now be called the red state of Ohio, limped across the finish line, aided by millions of dollars from billionaire Silicon Valley backer Peter Thiel.

Most other MAGA-inspired candidates went down: Blake Masters for Senate in Arizona, Kari Lake for Governor in Arizona, Dr. Mehmet Oz for Senate in Pennsylvania and Tudor Dixon for Governor in Michigan to name a few.

Some of these races were close, but as they say in Talladega Nights, if you're not first, you're last and that is particularly true in politics.

If you even need to be reminded – in a year in which nearly every political pundit predicted a red wave, Republicans achieved the impossible.

They blew it.

Democrats actually expanded their Senate majority with Warnock's re-election giving them a 51st senate seat.

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