BREAKING: Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeats Republican football star Herschel Walker in Georgia’s Senate runoff election, NBC News projects, handing President Biden and his party a key win.
ATLANTA — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican football star Herschel Walker on Tuesday in Georgia’s Senate runoff election, NBC News projects, handing President Joe Biden and his party a key win.
Republican voters typically wait to vote on Election Day, but their voters did not turn out on a damp and drizzly Tuesday in the numbers the Walker needed to overcome the advantage Warnock had banked during the early vote window. “There could have been other campaign operatives or another campaign that could have said, ‘OK, Herschel Walker has all this baggage, so we’re just going to run to the left and just try to turn out as many of our voters and just let Republicans eat their own,’” Fulks added. “We didn’t do that.”
Walker, who was backed by former President Donald Trump and was a star running back for the University of Georgia and in the NFL, had been dragged down byWarnock, who for years was the pastor at Martin Luther King Jr.’s former church, has tried to reach swing voters by portraying the race as not as a contest between Republicans and Democrats, but about “right versus wrong,” as he said in an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid Monday.
“I’m not a Donald Trump fan at all. I really wish he would go away. That’s my biggest negative in voting for Walker — I didn’t want to be perceived as a vote in favor of a Trump candidate,” Cochenour said, reflecting the mood that helped turn Georgia blue two years ago. “But I felt like the importance of taking the Senate back outweighed that.”
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