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| Warnock beats Walker in Georgia, padding Dems' Senate edge | |
| 2022-12-07 | |
| [Politico] ATLANTA — Sen. Raphael Warnock has defeated GOP challenger Herschel Walker in Georgia’s Senate runoff, giving Democrats a 51-seat majority next year and capping off an extraordinary defense of the chamber that saw every endangered incumbent win reelection. Warnock, who won a special election runoff in early 2021 and has now earned a full six-year term, finished narrowly ahead of Walker in the November general election. But because neither reached the majority mark, they advanced to this week’s one-on-one runoff, extending one of the most expensive and hard-fought campaigns in the country. Warnock’s win means that Senate Democrats protected every seat they had on the ballot this year, while also flipping the open seat in Pennsylvania to expand their Senate majority by one despite a tough political environment and sagging approval ratings from President Joe Biden. The results also mark another big defeat for former President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidates — a sore spot for local Republicans around the country who say he saddled the party with unelectable candidates. Trump intervened in GOP primaries this year to boost three hopefuls in tossup Senate races: Walker, a former football star, as well as celebrity physician Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and investor Blake Masters in Arizona. All three lost, as did other Trump picks in swing House seats and gubernatorial battles. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, meanwhile, easily won reelection in November after seeing off a Trump-backed primary challenger earlier this year, after Kemp refused to aid Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
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| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 GOP lost a seat in an election where most of the candidates were GOP to hold. The Dems have many more seats on the line in 2024. The best plan remains to replace Ronna and contest every seat with candidates that hate McConnell. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-12-07 15:59 |
| #10 Dunno about Georgia but San Diego County voter turnout for the midterms was 54.2 percent. It would be harder for Democrats to cheat if turnout was better. Perhaps still not impossible but at least more difficult. See also the Newt Gingrich opinion piece: Republicans Must Review the 2022 Failures. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-12-07 13:27 |
| #9 Dreadfully poor candidates both. Purchasing a running push lawnmower from either of them, risky at best. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-12-07 08:25 |
| #8 So Kamala 'the tie breaker' is out of work. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-12-07 08:22 |
| #7 every endangered incumbent win reelection. Looks like they were never endangered. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-12-07 07:13 |
| #6 Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic won't stop the ship from going down. You just don't want to face what you know you need to do. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-12-07 06:52 |
| #5 Good Lord! AGAIN! Three good people defeated by rampant fraud. |
| Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2022-12-07 05:58 |
| #4 Stop running sportsball players and TeeVee "celebrities" as candidates. Just stop it. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-12-07 05:53 |
| #3 Lake, Palin, Walker. Three good people defeated by rampant fraud. Bite-me and The Giggler are our Leaders. |
| Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2022-12-07 05:11 |
| #2 It's overtaken by corrupt election officials manufacturing however many votes they need. We no longer have actual elections, just wait, this will be the standard very soon. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2022-12-07 02:21 |
| #1 Our national politics has been overtaken and is now controlled by the heavily populated urban nodes. Once again, Georgia voters validate the right to vote of the illiterate. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-12-07 01:49 |