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Weeks, that walkers message would look a lotter month like kemps did, since kemp got a lot more votes than walker did in every single county in that election. and remember, hes someone weve been speaking to. he was running on issues like inflation. he was talking about what he believed the biden agenda was happening, what he was doing in washington and how he wanted to push back against that. it was a very different message than what we were hearing from walker who was focused on culture wars an...

Needs to in order to win. remember, we came into this runoff and he was already behind raphael warnock. so he needs to really overperform in order to get there. and i think that we really do have to say like lets just hit pause on this for a second because as john and jake just walked through the votes, the huge buckets of votes are still very much outstanding and thats why this early lead that herschel walker has taken in the moment is not necessarily going to be something that is a relief to a...

With 57% of the estimated votes in. >> well have a couple hours of this. a couple hundred votes hear, a couple thousand there. you watch it play out. and there is what hes working on. the percentage, the key thing is. what happens to the lead as the percentage of the election day vote starts to catch up? >> its happening right now. we have the early vote. most of what were seeing is the early vote. but we said it was around 12%, 13% is election day vote. i am certain in the couple minutes weve b...

Behind that you all the voters are watching. ill giving them bad news that their candidate is now trailing. >> well, despite that, i would describe the mood here as pretty upbeat. i think the campaign is always, they knew this race would be incredibly close. a trio of faith leaders just left the stage. they talk about how this room tonight was a celebration of the new south. the celebration of diversity. senator warnock made his faith really central to this election, arguing that he is a pastor ...

A month ago, it was 5,000 votes. so were not done here yet. were only at 67%. it isnt enough to get close. you wont match a month ago. turnout is probably down everywhere. the question is, can you get close? let move over here. were at 95% in the run-off. put the raw number. 7500. let just see. thats where we are today. a month ago, 79. so a 400-vote difference there. not as bad. the question is, if you get a little drop in dozens of these, because there are dozens of them. the small rural count...

But still, very much lively in here this evening. >> all right. senator warnocks campaign headquarters currently with the vote in. 61% of it in. estimated, warnock trails republican herschel walker by one percentage point. walker, 21,439 votes. we talked about how it would be a repeat of what we saw a month ago. warnock with the early lead. then the vote gets closer and closer and walker takes the lead. it could go back and forth. >> it is essentially what we saw a month ago. once we have a port...

Look at this key race alert with 59% of the estimated vote in. it is a .2% race. .2%. rafael warnock with -- now, its only a 4,600 vote lead over republican herschel walker. warnock with 50.1% of the vote. walker with 49.9% of the vote. as more votes come in, the race is narrowing and narrowing and flair overing. lets go to jeff zeleny at herschel walkers headquarters. is the walker campaign rejoicing? walker just took the lead, i am told, on the vote count as it is coming in. is the walker camp...

The 2020 election, they are not exactly helping. his new post on truth social, you know, his knock off version of twitter, trump called for the quote termination of the u.s. constitution to overturn president bidens election victory. chaos, chaos and nothing more as a closing argument. out of the crucial election in georgia. lets bring in nbc news senior national political reporter, sahil kapur running the runoff in atlanta for us. sahil, how to senator runoff closing message compared to walkers...

Unfit. saying the man does not know what he is talking, about warnock also like to talk about policy on the campaign trail. he spoke today about his support at a rally with organized labor for the pro-act. talked about closing the medicaid coverage gap. now walker for his part has continued to campaign against crime and inflation, blaming president biden and senator warnock for those things. you watch him on the stump, he seems more comfortable when talking about you know conservative culture wa...

Talked about closing the medicaid coverage gap. now walker for his part has continued to campaign against crime and inflation, blaming president biden and senator warnock for those things. you watch him on the stump, he seems more comfortable when talking about you know conservative culture warrior issues. he talks a lot on the campaign trail about critical race theory, about so-called wokeness. pronouns, transgender athletes. those are the kind of things that stir up republican base voters, may...