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okay, so, this is just in tonight, the daily beast reporting that the anonymous woman who said she had an abortion paid for by herschel walker is also the mother of one of his children. the daily beast originally agreed to withhold personal details about her, but the woman has now told them that she decided to share this after walker s denial of her original allegation. the woman told the daily beast that she wanted to stay anonymous to protect her family s privacy. the daily beast reported the woman provided proof that she is the mother of one of walker s children, but did not say how. here with me on set, cnn political commentators ashley allison and alice stewart. and also joining me cnn s senior political analyst, ron brownstein, and governor lieutenant, governor of georgia jeff duncan. good evening to one and all. so, as lieutenant governor of georgia, i ve gotta ask you, governor duncan, this is a bombshell. how is it going to land with georgia voters? well, ev ....
so tell us what s happening in the georgia senate race. look, look how close this is. this is the forecast for the georgia senate race. herschel walker with 49%, raphael warnock with 49%. normally, we don t include libertarian candidates but i have here chase all of our at 2%. why? because the rules in georgia basically stipulate that if the leading candidate does not, in fact, get a majority of the vote on election day november their will in fact be a runoff come december. and right now the forecast suggests that neither herschel walker nor raphael warnock will reach a majority of the vote. i just want to point out how important georgia is in terms of winning control of the united states senate. if herschel walker wins, the democrats chance of retaining control of the senate is just 26%. if raphael warnock winds, look at that, it jumps up to 76%. so, whoever wins georgia has a pretty good job of controlling the senate overall. and here is the only other thing i will ....
battleground georgia. and cnn senior data reporter harry hinton is here with us. he is awake. he is alive. he is at the magic wall. he is fired up and ready to go, as we can see. harry, we love having you here. tell us what is happening in the georgia senate race. look. look how close this is. herschel walker with 49%. raphael warnock with 49%. normally went we don t include libertarian candidates. but i have chase oliver at 2%. why? because the rules in georgia basically stipulate that if the leading candidate does not get a majority of the vote on election day in november, there in fact will be a runoff come december. and right now the forecast suggests that neither herschel walker nor raphael warnock will reach that majority of the vote. but i just want to point out how important georgia is in terms of winning control of the united states senate. if herschel walker wins the democrats chance of controlling the senate 26%. if raphael warnock wins, it jumps up to 6%. ....
john kerr by joining us live. herschel walker accused of extreme hypocrisy. his denial and what his son is saying today. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. more than 400,000 florida res departments are still without power, six days after hurricane ian made landfall. for floridians, the reality it could take years to rebuild. shaq brewster has been speaking with residents in ft. myers beach. how difficult is it to drive through viewing the damage, living with it. reporter: so much damage. especially when you move away from the beach. we are three miles from the beach, two miles from the river. i wanted you to see the extent of the daniel here. every house in the neighborhood, literally every house in the neighborhood you are seeing what it looks like their house, the full home outside on the front lawn. right here behind me, this is the first time that we have seen a fema team in this neighborhood. neighbors saying it s the first time they have ....
it s also an issue in many races around the nation. we are 35 days out from these midterms, and right now the scandal engulfing republican herschel walker in one race, but tells a similar story. he follows a report that states he has backed abortion in his own personal life, specifically funding an abortion for a woman in 2009. that was before the supreme court recently allowed states to ban abortions outright. and it is that personal act that is exactly what walker also claims to be run against. the beast, as you see here, documents what he allegedly did to support abortion in his personal life, including an account of the woman involved, while he publicly claims the opposite and wants to take away that right from others. it is running he is running on this plan to ban abortion while he has been allegedly caught supporting it. so in its own personal scandal louse way it is an echo about who makes the larger decisions, whether this is about what they say, or whether t ....