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☆ How Trump’s legacy became ‘pure poison’ for independents
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Among female independents, Trump’s ratings were even worse: just 23% favorable and 72% unfavorable, according to previously unpublished exit poll results provided by the CNN polling unit. Trump’s unfavorable rating hit a comparable 69% among independents with at least a four-year college degree. That was a significantly smaller advantage than the double-digit lead among independents Democrats enjoyed in both the 2020 presidential race and the 2018 contest for the House. While Democrats held the presidency, Republicans won independents by double-digits in House elections in the midterms of 2014, 2010 and 1994. Gretchen Whitmer won 59% of the independents with degrees and 56% of women independents.

☆ Raphael Warnock beats Trump pick Herschel Walker in Georgia Senate runoff, NBC projects
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Sen. Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent from Georgia, is projected to beat Republican challenger Herschel Walker in the state's runoff election to win a full six-year term in the Senate, according to NBC News. It also marks a major loss for former President Donald Trump, who had championed Walker and campaigned for him. The race went to a runoff after neither Warnock nor Walker won more than 50% of the vote in the Nov. 8 general election. Christian Walker pointed the finger at Trump after Walker's projected loss. With a 51-49 majority, Democrats will gain majorities on key Senate committees, which could make it easier for them to confirm nominees.

WASHINGTON — If it’s Monday ... It’s the last day of campaigning before tomorrow’s Georgia Senate runoff. ... NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard covers the closing messages by Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker. And just looking at the campaigns, which get the biggest bang per advertising buck, it’s Warnock at $25.2 million, versus Walker at $10.1 million. But now it’s $11.8 million — behind Warnock’s $25 million and the $20.3 million from Georgia Honor, a Democratic Super PAC. Runoff watch: Walker accuser speaks to NBC NewsDays after she first revealed an allegation of domestic abuse against Georgia Republican Senate hopeful Herschel Walker, a former girlfriend of his sat down with NBC News to detail those allegations.

☆ White House spokesperson criticizes Trump's suggestion to get rid of the Constitution: 'You cannot only love America when you win'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A White House spokesperson said Trump's words should be "condemned." A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution," Trump wrote in a Saturday post. In a statement to CNN, White House Spokesperson Andrew Bates called for Trump's words to be "universally condemned." Virginia Representative Dan Boyer tweeted that Trump's words "stoke hatred and political violence." "Trump's words and actions are unacceptable, they stoke hatred and political violence, and they are dangerous."

☆ Herschel Walker says Obama did not tell the 'whole story' when the former president joked about the GOP senate candidate's interest in werewolves and vampires
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Taylor Ardrey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Walker said that Obama did not tell the whole story after making a joke about his interest in werewolves and vampires. Obama recently made a joke about it during a rally in Georgia which didn't sit well with Walker. Obama took a jab a Walker during a rally on Friday supporting Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock before the Senate runoff election. Like whether it's better to be a vampire or a werewolf," Obama joked as the audience laughed. During a November speech in McDonough, Georgia, Walker went on involving the mythical creatures, which quickly turned into a gaffe.

ATLANTA — Georgia has set new records for early voting again as the two Senate candidates blitz the state ahead of Tuesday’s runoff election. White voters made up 55% of early voters, 32% were Black, and Latinos and Asian Americans each accounted for less than 2% of the total. Among Georgians under 30 years old, 15.5% of early runoff voters didn’t turn out for the general election. A resident fills out paperwork before early voting at a polling station in Atlanta on Tuesday. Another 32% of early voters are age 50 to 64, and 30% are younger than 50.

☆ Raphael Warnock has a 4-point lead over Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff: poll
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Warnock has a 50%-46% lead over Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff, per a new SurveyUSA poll. Independents, a critical slice of the Georgia electorate, backed Warnock over Walker by 13 points. In the poll, Warnock enjoyed near-unanimous support (95%) among Democrats, while Walker earned the backing of 87% of Republicans; 11% of GOP respondents crossed party lines to support Warnock over Walker in the survey. Because no candidate received 50% of the vote at the time, a runoff election was triggered. A recent Emerson College Polling survey showed Warnock leading Walker 49%-47% among likely voters, while a new CNN poll had Warnock ahead of Walker 52%-48%, also among likely voters.

Outgunned financially as Democrats dominate early voting, Herschel Walker’s Georgia Senate campaign Thursday begged donors to pony up more money because of Sen. Raphael Warnock’s growing sense of momentum. We need help,” Walker campaign manager Scott Paradise wrote in the memo sent to donors Thursday, which was obtained by NBC News ahead of Tuesday’s runoff election. “Core Republican voters just can’t get fired up about Walker, and they came out in the general because they liked Kemp or their congressional candidates. The Walker campaign is no longer beaming with the confidence it had heading into Election Day in November. “Some people still can’t get over the Trump connection,” said Ed Muldrow, the former chairman of the Gwinnett County GOP.

☆ Video: What's motivating Georgia voters? CNN speaks with Warnock and Walker supporters
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN's Don Lemon speaks with supporters of Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker ahead of the Georgia Senate race to hear what's on voters' minds.

☆ Obama mocks Herschel Walker's vampire remark
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Former President Barack Obama campaigned for Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and criticized his opponent Herschel Walker (R) for a remark he made about vampires and werewolves.

The 26% of Georgians who ranked abortion as their top issue backed Warnock by a margin of 77% to 21%, NBC News exit polls showed. Herschel Walker wants a total ban on abortion nationwide,” says a TV ad by the Democratic group Georgia Honor, playing footage of Walker calling for a “no-exception” ban. NBC News exit polls showed 60% of voters believe abortion should be legal, while 37% said it should be illegal. And no-exceptions rhetoric could be out of step with voters in a divided state like Georgia. Sen. Gary Peters, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the party’s Senate campaign arm, said abortion will remain a “permanent” feature of American elections until Republicans back down.

☆ Hershel Walker's team isn't allowing journalists 'within 20 feet of him' in lead up to Senate run off, says reporter
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Georgia Senate candidate Hershel Walker is facing Raphael Warnock in a runoff election next week. Walker, who has been endorsed by Trump, has not spoken to reporters for nearly two months. An Axios reporter tweeted Wednesday that Walker's team isn't allowing journalists within 20 feet of him. "New rule at Herschel Walker events: journalists can't get within 20 feet of Walker afterward," politics reporter Emma Hurt tweeted on Wednesday, alongside a picture of yellow barricades set up around a Walker campaign bus. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on November 29 that Walker hadn't taken questions from reporters on the campaign trail for almost two months.

☆ Herschel Walker's ex-girlfriend accuses the Georgia Senate candidate of attacking her after she caught him with another woman and says he shouted, 'You want to see a man? I'll show you a man'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An ex-girlfriend of Herschel Walker's told The Daily Beast he attacked her in 2005. Walker's campaign did not immediately return Insider's requests for comment. Walker's campaign did not immediately return Insider's requests for comment. Parsa told The Beast that Walker had previously admitted to having a relationship with the woman but had said he ended it. Parsa told The Beast.

Latino voters are expected to be consequential in determining who Georgia will send to the Senate. Latino voters provided a roughly 80,000-vote net advantage for Warnock on Election Day, according to Barreto. On the GOP side, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is trying to give Walker an edge with Latino voters through its Operación ¡Vamos! Canvassers from GALEO, a Latino nonprofit, knock on doors in Georgia ahead of the Senate runoff election on Tuesday. Ahead of the Senate runoff election, Voto Latino identified 175,000 Latinos in Georgia who are young, low-propensity voters who participated in the last election.

☆ Federal officials to Herschel Walker committee: Learn how to add your campaign contributions
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Federal Election Commission issued a warning to Herschel Walker's joint fundraising committee. Walker faces Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in the Georgia Senate runoff election on December 6. The FEC letter offers instructions on how the treasurer can double-check his addition on year-to-date totals and cash on hand. The FEC in 2021, for example, flagged Warnock's campaign for accepting contributions that exceeded federal donation limits. A Warnock victory would give Democrats a 51-49 Senate majority while a Walker victory would maintain the Senate's 50-50 split.

☆ Early voter turnout accelerates in Georgia Senate runoff after record-breaking day
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Georgia's early-voter turnout is accelerating in the high-profile Senate runoff race between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Trump-backed Republican Herschel Walker — even after voters already crushed the state's in-person record for early voting the previous day. "As of noon, we've had 118,130 Georgians cast an early vote today," Sterling tweeted, adding, "Don't know if it will stay that rapid." The data show that more than 48% of early voters are white and about 38% are Black, and that Black voters are showing up to vote early at a higher turnout rate. The early voter turnout also appears to skew female, 55% to 44%, according to the state elections office. The Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia was scheduled after neither Warnock nor Walker won more than 50% of the vote in the November general election.

“I live in Texas,” Walker said in January of this year, when speaking to University of Georgia College Republicans. Earlier in the speech, Walker said he decided to run for Georgia’s Senate seat while at his Texas home after seeing the country divided. On Monday, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported that Georgia authorities have been urged in a complaint to investigate Walker’s residency. “The Georgia Bureau of Investigations and the Georgia Attorney General’s office must immediately investigate whether Herschel Walker lied about being a Georgia resident,” Williams said. Before announcing, all of Walker’s media appearances on Fox News and on other conservative media, around 20 in total, took place in Texas.

☆ A razor-thin Senate buffer and 2024 chances are at stake in Georgia's runoff next week between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Early voting has started for the Georgia Senate runoff between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker. A Warnock victory would usher in a 51-49 Democratic majority, while the GOP hopes for a 50-50 split. Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker speaks with supporters during a campaign rally in Milton, Ga., on November 21, 2022. Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont — who caucus with the Democratic Party, creating an equal split in the upper chamber. However, some Republicans would prefer that Trump remain at Mar-a-Lago, worried that he could cost them another Senate win.

☆ Asian American voters are flexing their political muscle in the Georgia Senate runoff
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Both the Warnock and Walker campaigns have courted this crucial bloc ahead of the Senate runoff. Ballots cast by Asian American voters rose dramatically from 2016 to 2020, from 73,000 votes to 134,000 votes, respectively, according to the Democratic polling data firm TargetSmart. Per CNN exit polling from the November general election, Warnock won Asian American voters by 20 points over Walker (59%-39%). Brian Kemp cultivated relationships with Asian American voters during his successful campaign. "We're the only demographic group that keeps going up," Georgia state Sen.-elect Nabilah Islam told Politico.

☆ Republicans want Brian Kemp's mojo to rub off on Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff, but hurdles remain as the governor uses his political operation to boost the GOP
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Brian Kemp has emerged as Herschel Walker's most powerful surrogate in the Georgia Senate runoff. Kemp, who won reelection as governor, didn't campaign with Walker during the general election race. This normally wouldn't be a notable act in GOP politics, but the Georgia Senate runoff election is not a normal contest. For that reason, Walker has found himself openly embracing Kemp, who came out of the general election as the biggest winner in Georgia politics. On November 7, Kemp flew around Georgia with most of the statewide GOP candidates — including Raffensperger — but Walker wasn't part of the mix.

☆ Fact Check-Election graphs published by Mike Lindell do not indicate U.S. voter fraud
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

A series of graphs published by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell on his social media channels and livestreams appearing to show real-time U.S. midterm election updates do not indicate or prove fraud, experts told Reuters. Lindell published four graphs on his Instagram account purporting to show real-time vote counts during the elections. But such ‘spikes’ seen in graphs using unofficial election data do not indicate or provide proof of fraud, with races rarely officially called on election night (here). The four graphs appearing to show real-time midterm election data do not point to fraud or nefarious activity. Visualizing unofficial vote counts in real-time where the incoming data may be non-uniform in distribution can lead to apparent “spikes” in graphs, experts told Reuters.

☆ Herschel Walker calls the election an 'erection' during Fox News snafu
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Herschel Walker on Tuesday appeared to slip up and mispronounce the word "election" on TV. "This erection is about the people," Walker said, presumably meaning to say "election" instead. "This election is about more than Herschel Walker. This erection is about the people," Walker said during a Tuesday appearance on Fox News. Walker presumably meant to say "election," but messed up his pronunciation of the word while the two senators nodded and looked on.

CNN —Republican Herschel Walker is getting a tax break intended only for a primary residence this year on his home in the Dallas, Texas, area, despite running for Senate in Georgia. Walker registered to vote in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2021 after living in Texas for two decades and voting infrequently. 11Alive News, a local Georgia station, first reported that Walker took the homestead exemption on his Texas home in 2020. The county tax office in Texas where Walker maintains his home confirmed the exemption. Homeowners in many states are able to apply for a tax exemption by declaring their home to be their primary residence and the exemption lowers their tax bill by removing part of their home’s value on paper.

☆ Trump is reportedly furious that top Republicans are trying to persuade him not to campaign in the Georgia Senate runoff: report
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump furious Republicans are trying to dissuade him from campaigning in Georgia runoff, per Rolling Stone. Trump's status in the GOP has taken a big hit after the midterm elections. Republican Herschel Walker faces Democrat Raphael Warnock in the Senate runoff in December. Trump endorsed hundreds of candidates in the midterm elections, in a bid to cement his hold over the Republican Party before announcing his 2024 bid. Trump's relentless promotion of election fraud conspiracy theories in 2020 was blamed by some for the Republican Party's two Georgia Senate runoff defeats last year.

☆ Pence says he was 'surprised' that Republicans didn't win more seats in the midterm elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mike Pence said he was "surprised" that Republicans didn't win more seats in the 2022 midterms. While on the CBS program "Face the Nation," Pence said citizens want the GOP to focus on the future. During an interview on the CBS program "Face the Nation," Pence told host Margaret Brennan that while he wanted to see larger Republican margins in Congress, a "win is a win." "A win is a win, but I would have liked to see more Republicans elected to Congress. I would have liked to have seen a Republican majority in the Senate."

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