Senator Warnock defeats Walker for reelection in Georgia
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday.
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Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday.
Republican governor, brian kemp, who has been trying to help herschel walker in this run-off. what are you hearing from kemp's camp? >> reporter: i think jeff zeleny said that on purpose. he knew i was standing here. it's possible about the early voting, when i was in georgia in recent weeks interviewing governor kemp, i asked him about those republican efforts from the attorney general here. the republican officials in the state who pushed back on that attempt by warnock to get that extra day of early voting, that saturday, remember, after thanksgiving. he actually disagreed with that. he sai...
Six. >> all the way out. excuse me for turning my back to you. you can stretch that out. >> that's fulton county, cobb county, clayton county -- >> if they were spread out -- i'm just saying. it's not over for warnock. there's a lot of votes to count. >> yeah. gabe said he thought it would be, gabe sterling said over 3 million. so -- >> we have maybe a million and a half votes to count. >> it's a flail biter. >> it sure is. we're back with our friends and reporters. nice to see you. we've been talking to our sources as we've been watching jake at the wall. what are you hearing? >> i was laughi...
Day vote as well as they figure it out. they are looking at where white house officials see things at this point in time. they feel like they overperformed in large part because they feel the president's message, even a message that some democrats criticized at times, ended up resonating. in the post mid-term travel, it gives a window into that. the president going to michigan. only there once before mid-term elections. tell governor there doing well. we talk about how the president was not necessarily invited to georgia to help campaign for rafael warnock, either before the mid-term elections...
Guy, guys, guys, we're still in session. and i don't know what the heck you're talking about. and the key race alert. raphael warnock, the democratic incumbent senator, has pulled ahead with 72% of the vote in. senator warnock has 50.4% of the