on stage tonight, what might be the most important debate of this entire midterm election cycle, democratic senator raphael warnock versus republican candidate herschel walker in savannah, georgia. a race that could control the party for the next two years. the stakes would already be insanely high even if the republican candidate wasn t facing a major scandal about whether or not he paid for an ex-girlfriend s abortion despite running oen an antiabortion platform. here s how herschel walker addressed his ex-girlfriend s accusation just a few minutes ago. that s a lie. and on abortion, you know, oi ma christian. i believe in life. i tell people this. georgia is a state that respects life. and i ll be a senator, it protects life. i say that was a lie, and i m not backing down. we ll get back to that scandal in georgia in just a moment. but to understand exactly what s happening there, regarding scandals requires a little context because the term scandal took on a whole new
we like the no tie. different vibe from him. somebody stole all my ties. it s not a fashion choice. tie left. i like you re calling it an experiment. you should be in a white lab coat starting on monday. the waist down, i am. disturbing. this just came a little real just now. wonderful. nice to see you, jake. thanks, jake. have a good weekend. everyone, we re keeping the conversation going tonight not about the lab coat and jake tapper but here we are. i am laura coates in washington d.c. i m alisyn camerota in new york. this is cnn tonight. we have a team here in new york with me. and the other team here in washington d.c. so we re going to kick it off with the herschel walker raphael warnock senate debate. it just wrapped up a little while ago in georgia. we ll talk to the panelists, but wow. have you seen some of these clips? yeah, i was trying to watch it while prepping. it was a very high stakes debate because it s the only one until election day