Warnock’s campaign improved his numbers in rural counties by campaigning there - that’s what you do if you want to be competitive. There is also a growing and engaged Asian American Pacific Islander electorate.īut to be very clear: Warnock's coalition that he has built is a coalition that looks more like an Obama coalition than a Biden one. When looking at Latino voters, they are now the third largest racial group in the state: 1.1 million strong and nearly half live in the metro Atlanta areas of Fulton, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties.
Black voters in Georgia are a strong and formidable force and are nearly 50% of the metro area Atlanta electorate. Today, the metro area is more than 7 million people strong and it is diverse. Young told me when he was mayor, the Atlanta metro area had about 1 million people. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, who in 1972 was the first Black person elected to Congress from Georgia since Reconstruction and went on to be elected as mayor of Atlanta in 1981. I had the opportunity to speak to former U.S. With Black or Latham Saddler or Kelvin King as the candidate, the Republicans would have swept the general election.The growth in Metro Atlanta is worth unpacking. If Black, who served as Georgia’s longtime Agriculture commissioner or one of the two military veterans who ran against Walker in the May primary had won the nomination, the GOP would have avoided a runoff. Walker was the one Republican who fell short, as many right-leaning voters split their tickets. 8, after many of them defeated Trump-endorsed candidates in the primary. GOP candidates won every other statewide race on Nov. This Senate seat was the Republicans’ to lose. Georgia Senate runoff recap: Warnock wins re-election in tight race against Walker Any other GOP candidate would have won The question is: Will it be in a primary or the general election? Two years from now, another of those candidates will lose another election. David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler, Walker and Trump himself. Senate opponents in two years.Īll the losing GOP candidates had one thing in common: They embraced the politics of fear and loathing and the man who embodies those divisive concepts, former President Trump. Democrats have won three straight federal runoffs. Georgia Republicans seem intent on testing the definition of insanity by doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.ĭemocrats have now won four consecutive statewide races for federal offices. Will Georgia Republicans end their stubbornness?
Poor situational awareness?: Herschel Walker disses EVs in 'Battery Belt' ahead of Senate runoff Here’s hoping that unlike “Dumb and Dumber,” there is no sequel involving Walker as a political hopeful. Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz and Congressmen Buddy Carter and Rick Allen, to play Harry Dunne to Walker’s Lloyd Christmas on the campaign trail. Walker had to enlist B listers, such as Sens. The governor supported Walker at the behest of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell but made only one campaign appearance with the candidate - and that was more than two weeks ago, the Saturday before Thanksgiving. When one’s central campaign themes center on attacking transgender people, homosexuals and those suffering from mental illness, you are pathetic. Each stung and forced him to alter direction, as evidenced by Walker’s increasingly tight embrace of vile rhetoric in an effort to drive far-right turnout. These weren’t glancing blows of the type that Walker routinely shook off on the football field. Black’s forecast came well before the barrage of revelations, allegations and Twitter bombs from family members.
His biggest GOP primary rival, Gary Black, predicted a Walker loss back in May, pointing toward Walker’s checkered personal history.
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