Posted on 09/14/2022 3:14:29 PM PDT by thegagline
The Senate race between Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock is turning out to be a squeaker.
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Walker looks to have the momentum. Barely. Right now RCP’s aggregate average shows Walker leading Warnock by +0.5. A recent Emerson College Polling survey found that Walker is up over Warnock by 46 to 44 percent. The polling is within the margin of error. The survey was of likely general election voters instead of registered voters, which generally makes the results more reliable.
Warnock’s internal polling must be showing Walker ahead, too. Warnock reluctantly agreed to debate Walker in Savannah on October 14, hosted by Nexstar affiliate WSA. ***The two campaigns have been negotiating for months over how many debates there will be and their locations.
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Warnock has mostly been a back-bencher in the Senate. He pops up now and then to issue a statement on a topic up for a vote but he doesn’t have legislative victories to tout. He tends to concentrate on social justice issues and voting rights. Walker should be prepared to ask him about how he’s been able to double his income while he’s been in the Senate.
The $164,816 salary Warnock received from the Senate in 2021 represented just a fraction of the total income he earned throughout the year, his financial disclosure shows. The Georgia Democrat also received $120,965 for his service as the head pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and a $243,750 advance for his memoir, “A Way Out of No Way.”
Warnock’s combined income of $532,781 in 2021 is more than double the $221,601 he earned in 2020 before he defeated former Georgia GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler in early 2021, the Washington Free Beacon reported. ***
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Walker needs to seal the deal.
Then he should have avoided the debate and campaigned from the basement like Biden. He is earnest, but pretty much an idiot.
That is why I am pulling for the Georgia Bulldogs. Every win makes people think of Hershel Walker, who is a native Georgian patriot.
Steel cage mixed martial arts no holds barred match.
What? Just talk? Oh, well.
Walker should wear shirt “I Refuse to Have a Battle of Wits With an Unarmed Opponent.”
I do not believe Walker is an idiot. He runs a successful business, he started about 5 points behind Warnock, Walker has worked hard and the results are clear. Warnock will be more polished but I am praying Walker’s sincerity come through.
I expect Warnock will win. Dem strategy is clear: attack Walker’s character (lies about law enforcement experience, attacks on his ex wife). On Kemp, they are all in on abortion saying he will imprison most women before they know they’re pregnant or something
Meanwhile...
You are right, Walker is a hard worker, and well intentioned. But I cringe when he speaks. Inaccurate and dishonest, like lying about having been graduated from the University of Georgia in the top 1% of his class, when he actually left after his Jr year to play professional football.
Walker has toned that down. Much of what went on where the negative ads pick up were from his mental illness now well controlled. Biden has made equally outrageous claims but no problem for the left.
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