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☆ 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.

☆ Watch: Why Georgia's GOP lieutenant governor left runoff polling station without voting for either candidate
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Georgia's Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan says he couldn't vote for either Herschel Walker (R) or Sen. Rafael Warnock (D) when he showed up to cast his Senate runoff vote.

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.

☆ 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.

☆ Watch: Gov. Brian Kemp on why he waited until after election to join Herschel Walker
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia sits down with CNN's Kaitlan Collins to discuss his state's runoff Senate election between the GOP's Herschel Walker and Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock.

☆ CNN data reporter: Republicans are relieved Trump won't campaign with Walker
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Former President Donald Trump will not return to Georgia to campaign with Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker during the runoff election. CNN's Harry Enten explains why Republicans are relieved by Trump's absence.

☆ Trump won't campaign with Herschel Walker in Georgia before the Senate runoff: NYT
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump won't appear with Herschel Walker in Georgia in advance of the Senate runoff, per the NYT. Per Republican campaign officials who spoke with The Times, the Trump and Walker camps decided that an in-person visit from the former president might be too politically-risky. While Trump won't visit the Peach State in the remaining days of the runoff to support Walker, whom he encouraged to enter the Senate race last year, the former president will still chime in on the contest. Over the past two years, there are fewer states other than Georgia where Trump has had such an oversized impact in state politics. Many Republicans continue to blame Trump for his involvement in the dual Senate runoff elections last year, when then-Sens.

“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.

☆ 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.

Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock raised $52.2 million for his re-election between Oct. 20 through Nov. 16, more than doubling the fundraising total of his opponent, Republican Herschel Walker. Warnock, the top fundraising federal candidate of the 2022 election cycle by a long-shot, spent $39.2 million over the same period, which almost doubled Walker's spend too. Walker still raised a significant amount over that fundraising period — $20.9 million. His campaign spent $16.5 million and closed with $9.8 million on hand. If you’re just getting read back in after the holiday week, here are a few other headlines you may have missed ahead of next week’s runoff:

☆ 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.

☆ Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has big campaign cash advantage over GOP's Herschel Walker going into runoff election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock's campaign has almost three times as much cash on hand as Republican candidate Herschel Walker's heading into the final stretch of Georgia's runoff Senate election, according to new Federal Election Commission filings. Warnock, who is trying to defend his seat in a tight race, had just over $29 million on hand as of Nov. 16. Walker, a former NFL player and favorite of ex-President Donald Trump, had over $9.8 million on hand heading into the final weeks of the election. Warnock's campaign raised $52 million during that time period, compared with Walker's nearly $21 million, records show. In the midterms, Democrats flipped Pennsylvania's GOP-held Senate seat and defended contested seats in Arizona and Nevada.

☆ 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 Can Become the Republicans’ Defensive MVP
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Heather R. Higgins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Unlike in 2020, Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff won’t decide whether Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell is majority leader. But it will determine whether Democrats have a true majority. If they do, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has cast 26 tie-breaking votes, will have less to do—but that’s the least important implication. With an evenly divided Senate, any single Democrat can prevent legislation from passing without Republican support. Even when the holdout eventually gives in, the result may be less extreme, as when West Virginia’s Joe Manchin brought the cost of the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act down to $750 billion, plus another $1.2 trillion for a separate infrastructure piece, from its initial $6 trillion.

☆ Trump's Senate candidate in Alaska lost to Lisa Murkowski, the latest in a string of failures for his endorsees
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski held onto her Senate seat in Alaska, despite opposition from Trump. Unlike most Senate races, the contest in Alaska was mainly fought between two Republicans — Murkowski and the Trump-backed candidate Kelly Tshibaka, who lost. But during the 2022 midterms several high-profile candidates that he backed lost their races. Former TV doctor Mehmet Oz, backed by Trump, narrowly lost his Senate race in the swing seat of Pennsylvania to progressive Democrat John Fetterman. Meanwhile, the fate of Herschel Walker, running for Georgia's Senate seat, is in the balance as the race heads to a runoff in December.

☆ 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.

☆ Georgia Supreme Court allows early voting in U.S. Senate runoff on Saturday
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The Georgia Supreme Court allowed counties to hold early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, denying a bid by state Republicans to block the early voting. For the second time in less than two years, a U.S. Senate race in Georgia will go to a runoff, this time between Warnock and Walker, who is backed by former President Donald Trump. A Walker win would give national Republicans a boost, having seen their standing in the state of Georgia erode toward Democrats over the last few years. A Warnock victory could indicate that Democrats are making inroads in places where they have had difficulties gaining traction in the past. Democrats held the narrowest possible majority for the past two years in the 50-50 Senate, where Vice President Kamala Harris gave them the tie-breaking vote.

The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the state Republican Party's bid to block early voting in the state's hotly contested Senate runoff from moving forward this Saturday. Early voting is required to be available statewide Monday through Friday of next week. The state Republican Party appealed the decision, arguing it was allowing “illegal advance voting.”The dispute centered on a provision of Senate Bill 202, signed by Republican Gov. Raffensperger contended that meant there could be no early in-person voting on Nov. 26, the Saturday following Thanksgiving. In a court filing, Democrats said at least 19 counties with a total of over 4 million residents were planning on offering early voting on Saturday.

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.

☆ Georgia GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker set to receive 2022 tax exemption on Texas home meant for a 'principal residence': report
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Walker is set to receive a tax break for his Texas home meant for a "primary residence," per CNN. The Georgia Republican is expected to save $1,500 from the homestead tax exemption in Texas. Walker is locked in a tight runoff contest with Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia. In 2021, Walker registered to vote in Georgia after living in Texas for about 20 years. Texas homeowner guidelines stipulate that individuals can qualify for the exemption if it's used for their "principal residence."

The runoff race between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican nominee Herschel Walker remains tight in Georgia, an AARP poll finds. Fifty-one percent of all likely voters have a favorable view of Warnock, while 45% of likely voters in the same age group view Walker favorably. Forty-five percent of likely voters have an unfavorable view of Warnock, while 49% view Walker unfavorably. Walker's favorability rating is only above 50% among Republicans, men over age 50, voters over age 65, white voters and voters without a college degree. Meanwhile, Warnock's favorability rating is above 50% among all likely voters, voters under age 50, Democrats, independents, women, Black voters and voters with a college degree.

☆ Woman challenges Republican Herschel Walker to face abortion claim in public
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - A woman who alleges that U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker pressured her into having an abortion in 1993 on Tuesday challenged the Republican, who has said he opposes abortion with no exceptions, to meet her publicly before next month's Georgia run-off election. Walker has called the woman's allegations, first made publicly on Oct. 26, untrue. The woman and her attorney presented voice recordings they claimed to be Walker's. The attorney has said the woman has years of material, including receipts and greeting cards, documenting her romantic relationship with Walker from the late 1980s through the 1990s. A Warnock victory would expand Democrats' razor-thin margin in the Senate by one, giving President Joe Biden's party more room to maneuver.

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