[Red State] As we reported Wednesday, the tension is rising in Georgia Democratic circles as the gubernatorial campaign of failed 2018 nominee Stacey Abrams has failed to gain traction in the nine months since she declared her candidacy. Since that time, she’s been demonizing her opponent, Gov. Brian Kemp, and other Republicans as regressive types who want to set minority voters including women and black people back decades.
But her tactics seem to be backfiring, as poll after poll has shown her trailing Kemp by comfortable margins for Kemp. And the most recent one, released Thursday, shows Abrams down by eight, the biggest margin between the two to date in this race:
"Kemp leads in every age group in the survey. He receives right at 10% of African American support and a rather astounding 68% of white voters surveyed. Abrams has an impressive 54% of female voters while Kemp receives 63% from men," explained InsiderAdvantage Chairman Matt Towery. "Kemp has support from 50% of independents. With two months to go, Kemp would seem poised to potentially escape Georgia’s General Election runoff requirement."
In the previous Fox 5/Insider Advantage poll on the gubernatorial race, taken in late July, Kemp was up by five.
As also shown above, Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker is polling ahead of incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock by three points, after trailing Warnock by three in that same July Fox 5 poll. This is further proof of a clear momentum shift for Walker after several summer polls taken showed Warnock with the advantage, including one that had him up by ten.
Some of what’s happening here in both races, I think, is that Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan is not as popular as Democrats want people to think it is. In fact, there are strong indicators that Biden’s plan has seriously angered middle-class voters who now know they’ll be on the hook in paying for the debts willingly incurred by others, many of who don’t actually need the help. 
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