Georgia runoff

2022 - 12 - 7

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Post Politics Now: Georgia voters to decide hard-fought Senate ... (The Washington Post)

Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) faces Republican Herschel Walker in a hard-fought runoff in which more than 1.8 million people have already voted early.

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Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeats Republican Herschel ... (NPR)

After a long campaign cycle that stretched into December with a runoff election, Georgia elected Sen. Raphael Warnock to a full term.

and on the trail often channeled his hero's emphasis on the overlap between activism and faith. Especially in the final weeks of the campaign, Warnock explicitly appealed to independents and Republican-leaning voters [new era](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/12/1122118393/georgia-abrams-warnock-rural-black-voters-elections-democrats-midterms) in the state's politics. Walker, who Trump urged to run, was the [only](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/19/1137552158/the-path-looks-uncertain-for-democrats-after-losing-the-georgia-governorship-aga) Georgia Republican not to win outright in November. Across town, Walker snapped photos with fans tailgating outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Saturday, where his University of Georgia Bulldogs secured the SEC championship title. At campaign stops, supporters line up carrying hats, jerseys and footballs for the former football star to autograph. Multiple days broke records for daily, in-person voting, reflecting both enthusiasm and a Republican-backed election law that condensed the runoff window from nine weeks to four. "This is not about right and left," Warnock told voters before a rally with former President Barack Obama last week in Atlanta. The gap was most pronounced in Atlanta's northern suburbs, once Republican strongholds that have trended toward Democrats in recent years. He was also prone to gaffes and false claims, exaggerating his record in academics and business and displaying a loose grasp of policy. Raphael Warnock has won a full term in the U.S. Senate, defeating Republican football legend Herschel Walker in a campaign that tested Georgia's position as a purple state and spurred debates about race, celebrity and partisan politics.

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Polls closing in Georgia runoff to decide final Senate seat (WOKV)

About 1.9 million runoff votes already had been cast by mail and during early voting, an advantage for Democrats whose voters more commonly cast ballots this ...

[flawed candidates cast from Trump's mold](https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-00c770068d8b82f165a9f4871eee983b), a blow to the former president as he builds his third White House bid ahead of 2024. [fathered three children out of wedlock](https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-herschel-walker-nashville-government-and-politics-115fc9e55e007f9203f3a0592ac83452) whom he had never before spoken about publicly. Walker, a football legend who first gained fame at the University of Georgia and later in the NFL in the 1980s, was unable to overcome a bevy of damaging allegations, including claims that he paid for [two former girlfriends' abortions.](https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-herschel-walker-health-georgia-1a7c86004f571ea10e6f88ea375b439d) He has never denied those specifics and wrote of his violent tendencies in a 2008 memoir that attributed the behavior to mental illness. Brian Kemp](https://apnews.com/article/georgia-governor-race-2022-midterm-elections-f976a0e81f193277d22e176faa852acb) by a comfortable margin and chose an all-GOP slate of statewide constitutional officers. Warnock promoted his Senate accomplishments, touting a provision he sponsored to cap insulin costs for Medicare patients. Walker, meanwhile, sought to portray Warnock as a yes-man for Biden. He has suggested that he's worked as a law enforcement officer and graduated college, though he has done neither. [Warnock led Walker by 37,000 votes](https://apnews.com/article/georgia-senate-race-runoff-2022-midterms-b32e84784e9e644b3e3163b7ca9cc569) out of almost 4 million cast, but fell short of the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff. “The numbers look like they’re not going to add up,” Walker told supporters late Tuesday at the College Football Hall of Fame in downtown Atlanta. “I often say that a vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire for ourselves and for our children,” declared Warnock, a Baptist pastor and his state's first Black senator. There will be divided government, however, with [Republicans having narrowly flipped House control.](https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-house-control-79475a4fc11e4375cd0dded651b9eede)

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Georgia Senate runoff election results: Warnock vs. Walker race (NBC News)

Live Georgia Senate runoff election results 2022, including votes, live maps and poll results for Senator Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker by county.

The expected vote is the total number of votes that are expected in a given race once all votes are counted. Whenever that information is widely available in a state on election night, NBC News will display it. - 99% in This number is an estimate and is based on several different factors, including information on the number of votes cast early as well as information provided to our vote reporters on Election Day from county election officials. - 12.6% - Baldwin99% in - 24.1% - Baker99% in - 19.5% - Bacon99% in - Atkinson99% in - Appling99% in

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New campaign tool: Monetizing friends (Axios)

Democrats have activated a novel organizing tool ahead of the Georgia Senate runoff.

[backs up that view](https://www.impactive.io/blog/largest-ever-study-on-relational-organizing-shows-8-3-percent-increase-in-turnout). [relational organizing efforts](https://www.turnoutpac.org/community-mobilizers-the-latest-frontier-in-voter-engagement/)into the runoff as well. [Pioneered during](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/08/democrats-spread-organizing-strategy-that-flipped-georgia-to-other-states-00023892)the 2021 Senate runoffs in Georgia, Relentless and a partner technology firm, Rally, [say the tactic](https://medium.com/@davisleonard/how-we-built-a-relational-network-of-160k-voters-in-less-than-a-month-92262926fdb0)boosted turnout in that race by 3.8% among voters in its "relational network." [offering supporters $500](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGd4DQIJnzWm-Wo01gtv38ZAm_JA8Skjfhxjojy8aR0M0fsQ/viewform?t=4kuWs&fbclid=IwAR3l6xfDR5eGXhZq5VeLosIUmP50vasGmN6uGyqzZ1n4zaNrvdX73sKbULg&vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&urp=gmail_link)to "encourage people you know (friends, family, neighbors, etc.) to vote early and to make a plan to vote on Election Day." [2022 midterm elections](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/midterm-elections-2022), and those employing it hope to ramp up the tactic ahead of the 2024 presidential election. [Georgia Senate runoff](https://www.axios.com/2022/12/04/georgia-senate-runoff-walker-warnock-poll): thousands of Georgians paid to plug Sen.

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Georgia runoff: Democratic U.S. Senator Warnock beats Trump ... (Reuters)

Democrat Raphael Warnock won re-election to the U.S. Senate in a hard-fought Georgia runoff on Tuesday, expanding his party's razor-thin majority as he ...

It is his second runoff victory in two years, after he won the seat in January 2021. The former president endorsed Walker and dozens of other high-profile Republicans in this year's midterm elections, but he ends with a Many began dancing, some held their drinks in the air, and others took selfies to memorialize the moment. Warnock, who like Walker is Black, is pastor of the historic Atlanta church where assassinated civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. The result cements Georgia as a battleground state certain to play a prominent role in the 2024 presidential election. But tomorrow we go back down into the valley to do the work," Warnock, a Baptist preacher, told a cheering crowd of supporters.

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Raphael Warnock wins Democrats outright US Senate majority in ... (BreakingNews.ie)

Democratic senator Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election on Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright ...

The senator appeared to be headed for a wider final margin in Tuesday’s runoff. “The numbers look like they’re not going to add up,” Mr Walker told supporters in a concession speech late on Tuesday at the College Football Hall of Fame in downtown Atlanta. Mr Walker, a football legend who first gained fame at the University of Georgia and later in the NFL in the 1980s, was unable to overcome a bevy of damaging allegations, including claims that he paid for two former girlfriends’ abortions.

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Georgia Senate runoff tightens in final midterm test of Trump's ... (CNN)

Georgia's Senate runoff has tightened with more than 60% of the vote tallied in a contest that will shape the balance of power in the Democratic-controlled ...

Geoff Duncan, who also balked at Trump’s outlandish demands after the 2020 election, told CNN on Monday that Trump’s backing in the primary was the only reason Walker became the GOP nominee, but now the former president is “probably the biggest headwind Herschel Walker has.” They accounted for nearly 32% of the turnout in early voting, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. After watching losses in key states like Arizona and Pennsylvania, top Republicans are planning a more aggressive push to prop up candidates in primaries that they deem as more electable. “We just got trounced when it should have been one of the biggest, easiest layups we’ve made in years, in decades. [narrow lead](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/politics/cnn-poll-georgia-senate-runoff-election/index.html) over Walker in a CNN poll released last week. While Kemp and Walker spoke a few times during the general campaign, the two men largely kept their distance from one another on the trail. It was also a sign that – in the wake of President Joe Biden narrowly carrying the state in 2020, combined with two Senate runoff wins that handed him a Democratic Senate in 2021 – Georgia is now definitively a purple state. Though Warnock gained more votes than Walker in last month’s general election, he did not earn the majority needed to win outright. The state broke single-day early voting records last week, but the early voting period was significantly condensed from 2021. Kemp went on to handily defeat Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams last month, garnering about 200,000 more votes than Walker. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who have often single-handedly curbed the ambitions of their party. Catherine Cortez Masto clung to her seat despite economic headwinds, and in Pennsylvania, where Democrat John Fetterman picked up a GOP-held seat.

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