ABC, CNN and NBC panelists predict Warnock victory in Georgia runoff, argue GOP lacks 'motivation'

ABC, CNN and NBC guests and hosts predicted on Sunday that Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., would win the Georgia Senate runoff against Herschel Walker, citing campaign spending and Democratsalready having control of the Senate. 

NBC's Chuck Todd noted that Warnock spent nearly $400 million in the Georgia Senate runoff race in the last two years. He compared it to Mitt Romney spending $400 million in the 2012 presidential race. 

NBC's Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor said Warnock was putting money into the race because "he knows he has to" and there are plenty of Republicans in Georgia who were planning to vote for Herschel Walker despite believing "he's a liar." 

Ashley Parker, the senior national political correspondent for the Washington Post, added that the race was more important for Democrats after having already gained control of the Senate. 

"After the November election, when the balance of the Senate no longer hangs in the balance, this race becomes in fact more important for Democrats than it does for Republicans, because it doesn’t help Republicans take control. But for Democrats, it makes a lot of - and this is not sexy - but it makes a lot of procedural things a lot easier. And more importantly, you know, those Democratic votes that Schumer and the White House had to wrangle, Manchin is not the same as Sinema," she said.