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What the GOP Must Learn From Georgia Runoff

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AMAC Exclusive – By Daniel Berman

Raphael Warnock’s victory in Georgia on Tuesday in the U.S. Senate runoff election was expected by virtually everyone, from pollsters who almost bent over backwards to apologize that their models even showed a close race, to GOP donors and national groups who committed half-heartedly if at all to the race, allowing Warnock to outspend Herschel Walker by nearly 5-2, to leading GOP figures who seemed unsure whether a larger or smaller margin of defeat better served the interests of their respective factions in intraparty conflicts.

Election night jumbled a lot of talking points when for a brief period it appeared the race was too close to call. The final margin, 51.4% for Warnock and 48.6% for Walker, is causing equal confusion. It is not close enough to promote stories about a GOP comeback, or Democratic performances in November being a fluke, yet is not wide enough to fit the narrative of a hapless Walker campaign, saddled with a toxic candidate, in free-fall. This presents a bit of a problem for GOP strategists. If the result had been a blowout, they could have blamed the candidate, and implicitly Donald Trump, the man they insist forced Herschel Walker, a legend in Georgia, onto the 68% of GOP primary voters who backed him. In that case, their own actions or inaction would have been vindicated. “There was nothing we could do with such a candidate,” would be the common refrain. “No amount of money could have won this race… They tried their best. Kemp turned his entire operation, or at least its payroll, over to Mitch McConnell to support Walker and it was not enough!”

If, however, the race had been razor-thin, say 50.2% to 49.8%, then there would have been little doubt that despite the weakness of the candidate, being outspent nearly three to one probably made at least .2% of a difference. The decision of leading conservative and Republican media figures to write-off the race and move-onto recriminations before voting was over likely demoralized enough voters.

With the race ending somewhere in the middle of those two scenarios, there are some takeaways from Tuesday’s results that are important for the GOP moving forward.

Blaming Herschel Walker is an easy excuse

Was Herschel Walker a flawed candidate? Without a doubt. There is a reason, however, for the old saying, “victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” Herschel Walker is being portrayed not as just a “flawed” candidate, but a hopelessly awful one who lacked any redeeming strengths, yet whose weaknesses were so apparent that only malice could explain overlooking them. This may help excuse other Republicans, in Georgia and nationally, of responsibility. But the myth that Donald Trump somehow forced Walker onto Georgia Republicans is nonsensical, as is the mythical strength of his leading mainstream primary rivals.

Walker, for all his flaws, was a living legend in Georgia, one of the most famous sports figures of his generation. That gave him appeal which could, if properly exploited, transcend partisan and ideological lines. Walker was not an unknown figure before Donald Trump endorsed him. He was by far the most famous of the potential candidates. His victory with nearly 70% of the primary vote was a testament to that. To suggest that 68% of GOP primary voters who cast ballots for Walker were simply demonstrating blind loyalty to Donald Trump is absurd. 73% of those same voters cast their ballots for Brian Kemp over Trump-endorsed former Senator David Perdue, while a majority also voted for Brad Raffensperger. Walker did have wide appeal, including to seemingly many non-Trump supporters at the time of the primary.

Walker’s current critics are revisionist in ignoring that a key reason for his easy victory was that while some reservations, albeit well-founded ones, were made about Walker’s inexperience and other flaws as a candidate, no real effort was made to sell any of the mainstream alternatives. Congressman Doug Collins had, like Mo Brooks in Alabama, a poor electoral record, and lost badly to Raffensperger, as did Perdue in the Governor’s race. While both would have been better advised to run for Senate, it is unclear how an inability to appeal to much more than a third of Republican primary voters would have translated into a winning general election message.

Perhaps if Brian Kemp had decided to run for Senate things may have been different, but he had no intention of doing so, and it is likely that Raffensperger or another state officeholder would have made the primary into a divisive battle over 2020 if they had tried to run.

For structural reasons, there was a choice between boring, generic Republican politicians with many of Walker’s issues, and Walker, who at least potentially countered them with celebrity. Endorsing Walker was not an impulsive decision by the former president; it was, rather, the most logical choice given the options available.

The GOP allowed the narrative of a flawed candidate to become entrenched

By the time of the runoff, a narrative had taken root that not only was Walker a flawed candidate, but his opponent, Raphael Warnock, was some sort of political juggernaut who was charismatic, and had wide crossover appeal. There was even discussion of Warnock as part of a future national Democratic ticket.

How, precisely, this narrative took root is a tale of the utmost negligence on the party of the GOP at all levels. Warnock has a highly problematic history, with many of the same issues with alleged domestic violence that were used with such effect to discredit Walker. Warnock allegedly ran over his ex-wife’s foot with his car after an argument over whether Warnock would allow his wife to apply for a passport – an incident that occurred not in the past but while he was running for Senate in 2020. Warnock was also arrested in 2002 for allegedly obstructing a child abuse probe into a summer camp. No wonder his wife called him a “great actor” in police footage.

This leaves aside that Warnock has largely been a down-the-line liberal vote, even voting to abolish the filibuster. Yet despite efforts by Walker to promote these stories in ads, they failed to resonate or influence the narrative.

A large part of the reason for this is that it was Walker who was left pushing these stories in his own campaign ads. This made them suspect in the same way that if Warnock’s campaign had been the one bringing forward accusations of Walker soliciting abortions in attack ads, the effect would have been to cast doubt on the charges and the man whose campaign was making them.

The most effective framing of Walker was done not by Warnock, but by the media and insiders on both sides. When it was not just MSNBC or the mainstream media which was pushing a narrative that the race was between a “scandal plagued, mentally ill” Republican and a charismatic Democratic pastor, but also Republican strategists and aides, then it became the narrative. The race became a “test” of whether Republicans would vote for Walker “despite all his problems” and not whether Democrats would vote for Warnock despite his. Take as an example the New York Times story entitled “A Pastor and Politician Who Sees Voting as a Form of Prayer.” Real credit is due to Warnock’s press team for this type of coverage. Celebrities pay millions for this sort of image management.

As much as the lack of financial support hurt Walker, the lack of narrative support played the decisive role in the contest. Unlike Blake Masters in Arizona or J.D. Vance in Ohio, Walker had no history of extreme political positions, or really any positions at all. Nor did he adopt any during the campaign.

Georgia is trending left, but more slowly than assumed

While it is hard to account fully for uncontested races, as of this moment, Republicans lead the popular vote for the U.S. House 50.6% to 47.8% or a margin of 2.8%. In November, Republicans won the aggregated vote for U.S. House in Georgia 52.3% to 47.7%, or about 4.6%. None of the 14 districts was seriously contested by the other party in the general election, so it can function as a reasonable floor for both. What is striking is how similar that total was to the results in 2018.

YearGeorgia House VoteNational House VoteDifference
201852.27%-47.73% R53.4%-44.8% DR+6.2%
202051%-49% R50.8%-47.7% DR+2.6%
202252.31%-47.69% R50.6%-47.8% RR+1.6%

Three things stand out. First, the 2018 and 2022 results in Georgia are almost identical. Second, the GOP won the popular vote in all three years, which does indicate the Senate race was an outlier, albeit not a huge one. Thirdly, Georgia is moving leftward such that even a better GOP year in 2022 could barely keep up.

There was a lot of talk after 2016 that the confident predictions about “demographics being destiny” made after the 2012 election, whether by Democrats or the GOP in its autopsy, were proven wrong. The idea that those specific trends were static was indeed proven incorrect. However, the general movement of U.S. politics towards polarization is real. Georgia provided a microcosm of that phenomenon this year.

Even with several factors trending against the GOP, however, Georgia still did not shift it that much. Walker still received 48.6% of the vote. However, if that is a floor, Democrats are likely to have a similar floor in future statewide contests.

The problem in Georgia is that the groups and areas Walker won are casting less votes relative to the rest of the state than they did a few years ago, while those that voted for Warnock cast more. Georgia is not quite at the level where it leans Democratic by any means. The above chart still shows the state voting around 1.6% more Republican than the nation at large on average in House races. But that trend has also slowed somewhat in recent years. Georgia is not likely to be a “blue state” in terms of voting to the left of the nation in 2024, but it may well only vote 1% to the right of the nation, which would have been enough for Hillary Clinton to win it in 2016.

We are still stuck with 2016 coalitions

The Georgia runoff is interesting in respect to what didn’t happen. Warnock did not make inroads with rural whites, especially in North Georgia where Marjorie Taylor Greene had underperformed in November. He did not reverse trends in rural African American counties, where there has been a steady erosion of Democratic support. He won the places and people he won in November, and in those areas slightly more voters turned out. The major trends of the global realignment, in which education and age are key drivers of voter preference, are supported by this result.

In short, the country is on the same trajectory it has been on since 2016. We have now had four elections in which great expectations were instilled. In 2018, Democrats failed to win Florida, Iowa, and Ohio “back.” In 2022 a “red wave” did not reach Oregon and Washington. Instead, we have had four versions of the 2016 election, each with candidates, events, and issue patterns which favored one party or another. While these affected turnouts, it was ultimately the same dynamics at play in each election.

This does not mean that one party cannot have a better year than another. Democrats had a better year in 2018 than they did 2020, and the GOP had a better 2016 than 2022 (or 2018), but ultimately 2018 was a much better version of 2016 for Democrats. The shock in 2022 came from how similar it was to 2020 outside of a few large states such as California, Florida, and New York. Even in those states, the outcomes did not change, merely the margins.

This has implications for discussion about 2024. The discourse about whether Donald Trump should run again, and if not, who should replace him, contains a universe of possibilities that does not seem supported by data. Some candidates are likely to perform better than others, some will have much greater funding, and run more disciplined operations. Ultimately, it is likely that whatever Republican is running is going to have to try to win with the 2020 coalition. No Democrat, Biden or otherwise, is likely to try and win the 2012 election a second time by focusing on Iowa and Ohio.

The GOP can win in 2024. But the party must first figure out how to win the 2020 and 2022 elections, on those maps, and with those coalitions. That is the message Georgia reinforced.

Daniel Berman is a frequent commentator and lecturer on foreign policy and political affairs, both nationally and internationally. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He also writes as Daniel Roman. 

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

First, let me ask a question. When did Doug Collins run against Raffensperger? Paragraph 7. Do you mean Jody Hice, our 10th District Congressman who ran against Raffensperger for secretary of state? Also, as a county chair I heard lots of folks in support of Walker mainly because they were old white folks who knew he was a football hero. But there was also a group who were concerned very early that this might not be a winning plan going forward, realizing there was baggage here that would be difficult to overcome. Kelvin King was a very good candidate who came on strong but did not have the name recognition but none of the baggage and is black and has a strong religious perspective. We also have a lieutenant governor who had decided not to run but went on national TV to say he would not vote for Walker in the runoff. The obstacles just became too difficult to win.

No-mo-libs
No-mo-libs
3 years ago

A flawed GOPer or flawed Marxist (lol), I’ll take the former every time, no questions asked. Also the political scene demanded voters send a signal that the Biden Campaign’s policies stink. The voters did’nt.

No-mo-libs
No-mo-libs
3 years ago

You forgot to mention that GOP boss, Mitch McConnell, had dissed the entire GOP slate. Mitch also did not fund the Walker campaign, and so curbed the GOP base. Its as if Mitch had owed Nancy and Schumer, D-NY, one.

John Pfalzgraf
John Pfalzgraf
3 years ago

Georgia was not the problem. The problem was who Mitch McConnell endorsed across the country. If he would not have avoided backing candidates supported by Trump the red wave would have materialized. The problem is RINO’s like McConnell, Romney and can you believe it – Paul Ryan has raised his head again!!!

johnh
johnh
3 years ago

My opinion: Georgia voters have not forgotten the highly publicized phone call that Donald Trump made to Georgia AG asking him to find 11,000 more votes 2020 election. And he wrongly accused election mother & daughter of fraud with ballots that resulted in the two people getting death threats. And Trump did not apologize to these two people for falsely ruining their lives. Georgia citizens were not impressed with Trump & his failed end run for 2020 election.

TC Lillibridge
TC Lillibridge
3 years ago

And John fetterman and Katie Hobbs were what…stellar? How can you even try to pass this as objective journalism when two failed and seriously flawed candidates from the left win. We have selections not elections. Walker and Warnock we’re both flawed, we’re all flawed, bit Georgia did not elect Warnock, PA did not elect Fetterman, and AZ did not elect Hobbs, these were corrupt, stolen elections. So how about digging into and reporting on that truth.

MariaRose
MariaRose
3 years ago

I am curious if analyzing the percentage numbers of voter turnout to actual registered voter numbers could give a more accurate picture. Forget about the portrayal by the media of large numbers of voters, compare the results to actual number of registered voters who n the active voter rolls to get the real percentage of voters who turned out. If the election results from the 2022 election are based on a lower than 30% of actual registered voters then the results are not based on the full population but only the voters who actually came out to vote. Figure that out before the next election to really see what needs to appeal to the voters.

Allen Rosendahl
Allen Rosendahl
3 years ago

This wasn’t about Walker or Warnock but about a very corrupt ballot/ voting system. If all the other countries in this world can do this in one day AND in person With proper I.D. We need to get back to that. Also, a woman’s right to choose is BEFORE she participates in the creation of a new life, which begins at conception NOT perception! Once pregnant the right turns into a RESPONSIBILITY and that new life has all the same rights as the woman and man who participated in the creation of that new life!!!!

Robert
Robert
3 years ago

I love the Author’s comment ” was Walker a flawed candidate ” ?

If Walker was a flawed candidate then why was Revend Warnock not a flawed candidate?

I am tired of both parties or the “uni-party.”

Republicans have no spine or testicles and Democrats just lie and cheat.

A pox on both of their houses. They care only about themselves and not for the American people.

I am a God fearing American conservative, and both political parties are useless!

Robert

DeploraVet59
DeploraVet59
3 years ago

The only answer is to join the other side. Who was it that said, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”? Joe Biden? Well, he DID say, “If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t Black” I’m not Black, but I guess a lot of Black folk listened to him.

Christopher Behr
Christopher Behr
3 years ago

The only reason Georgia might be “trending blue” is that thousands and thousands of blue yankees have been moving here from northern hellholes trying to escape the disasters that their corrupt politics and demented, immoral thinking created to begin with. People, just stay home and clean up your mess there instead of making another mess here.

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
3 years ago

They’ll have to decide what to do without my donations from now on.

Jim
Jim
3 years ago

Completely incoherent analysis

T.M.
T.M.
3 years ago

Before the crowd gathers with pitchforks and torches, let me state plainly: I voted for Trump in both elections and will likely vote for him again in the next. Yet, with Walker loosing by such a slim margin, let me state clearly another lesson the GOP needs to learn: NEVER TRASH TALK THE BLACK PREACHER. The African Ametican vote is critical in Georgia. I don’t care how liberal he or she is. I don’t care if he just spent a year in an insane asylum. I don’t care if the voters you are talking to haven’t been to church in over twenty years. No bashing the black preacher! The preacher has played an indispensable role of leadership and encouragement un that community since the early days of slavery and is still respected and defended today. You can question the black preacher, even carefully using a few well known quotes from him. You can then ask your audience if this is the man you want speaking for them, but no bashing. President Trump tore into Warnock before the election and set a good portion of Walker’s potential voters teeth on edge. That turned enough of them away to change the outcome. In the deep south, with a large African American vote: DONT BASH THE BLACK PREACHER.

CTTEXAS
CTTEXAS
3 years ago

Screw the Republican party McConnell had $40 million they never spent to aid any Maga candidates.

theDuke19
theDuke19
3 years ago

Georgia is a red state; look at the county elections map, lots and lots of red. It is the big bad blue counties surrounding the Atlanta metropolis driving the Democrat machine. Unfortunately States and their counties are majority democracy, and thus smaller counties are not equally representative.

Frank
Frank
3 years ago

I was a staunch Trump supporter right up until some of the things he has said and a couple of Senate candidates he ridiculously supported like Oz in our state of Pennsylvania. What he said to DeSantis was the last straw. I hope DeSantis does run for the 2024 white house run because at 80 Trump will be too old to serve. As for the Republicans not winning the Senate solely falls on those traitor Rhino Republicans who continued too negatively attack any and all of the candidates Trump supported and is the reason, I believe Walker and Oz and a couple of others lost. Face its Walker and Oz were better than the 2 liberal clowns that won hands down yet because of the Rhinos and their puppet supporters they lost. Face it, the Rhinos and their puppet supporters are every bit as braindead as the liberals and their supporters and it showed in the elections in PA and Georgia. Kentucky is also the same as PA. and Georgia because their braindead puppet voters still defend the Republican Party’s biggest Rhino Mitch Mcconnell. So, until this changes with the Rhinos elections will continue nto be lost and the democrats will rule.

Cyde Hurst
Cyde Hurst
3 years ago

We must eliminate money laundering, ballot harvesting, and social media interference before any of this will change

SAMSON
SAMSON
3 years ago

They will never learn, look at the mess we are in with these stinken democrats, AND THEN they are passing perverted marriage laws while the country falls apart and putting our country under further judgement of GOD.

phil
phil
3 years ago

I live in Georgia. The spending was a big issue. Hershel wasn’t a bad candidate. He was an inexperienced candidate. Compared to Warnock he was a choir boy. The difference is Warnock’s campaign attacked two key themes over and over. Hershel was a liar and he is not mentally capable of being a senator. These ads were repeated over and over and over again indoctrinating everyone one. Very few ads mentioned Warnock’s’ voting record. The pipe line, inflation, cost of living etc. If those issues were harped on like Hershel’s alleged lying and mental issues were it would have been a different result. Why don’t the Republicans every mention the voting record of their opponent.

Glee
Glee
3 years ago

The ones who never learn are reporters like you who REFUSE to investigate and report on voting machine election fraud. I expect that from main stream media. But AMAC, Fox, and other self-proclaimed “conservative” media outlets have no excuse. You’ve NOT done your homework OR you’ve done it and refuse to publish your findings. Disgraceful!

Douthitt Corky5805832665
Douthitt Corky5805832665
3 years ago

The GOP never learns. It occasionally gets it right but immediately reverts to old bad habits.

Pam Chitwood
Pam Chitwood
3 years ago

Until the voting in Arizona and California are fixed. A few others as well I will not feel many of the elections are that fair. When I see the Twitter dumps released and the FBI had met with them and Facebook to stop some information going out about the Biden Crime family how can we feel good about elections in this country. The democrats in this country. They Globalist…deep states..need to be cleaned out. who can do this?

Robert Jones
Robert Jones
3 years ago

Berman is ignoring the fact that this election like most elections in swing states is decided by a small percentage of independent voters and party based turnout. The electorate is for the most part polarized into two camps and vote the party line. In order for Republicans to win in Georgia they have to have a candidate who secures the maximum number of votes from party supporters and a handful of votes from independents. Warnock and other Democratic Party candidates were perceived as vulnerable in 2022 due to the miserable performance of President Biden. There was an expected Red Wave that did not materialize. In Walker’s case it was clear from the start that he was an exceptionally weak and vulnerable candidate. When the media is working for the “other side” his vulnerability became a fatal weakness. Fair? No. Predictable? Yes. The Republican party is split into ideological voting factions. The “religious right” is one those factions. Abortion is an issue for them. Walkers alleged participation in paying for abortions and the accusations of domestic violence clearly kept some of those Republican voters from voting for Walker. They are “family values” people. Berman’s assertion that Warnock had similar weaknesses, support for abortion and domestic violence, did not have the same impact on the base of Democratic voters. Besides the obvious what exactly did Walker have going for him except he was a celebrity football player in his day and he supported Donald Trump. Walker had nothing to sell to the public. Now that’s unimportant to a vast majority of the electorate but it is important to the independent voter. I’m a Republican who donated close to a thousand dollars to Walkers campaign and I can’t honestly tell you what Walker personally represented except loyalty to Donald Trump. The facts speak for themselves. Governor Kemp won reelection by a comfortable margin. He didn’t have Walker’s flaws and didn’t associate himself with Donald Trump. He didn’t provide the left wing media with the ammunition to attack his character. Fair? Fair is a meaningless concept in politics and Berman should know that. Candidates, particularly Republican candidates, need to represent their voting constituency and that means not paying for abortions, threatening their girl friends and wives or lying about their qualifications. At this point candidates as flawed as Walker who are tied to Trump are not even electable in a marginally red state like Georgia. In marginally blue states being tied to Trump, as with Dr. Oz, is the kiss of death. Look at who Pennsylvania elected. Pathetic. Berman is entirely correct on the party infighting but most of the issue there revolves around Trump and McConnell who gave and withheld donations to candidates based upon their own interests. Berman’s spin doctoring of the election does nothing to refute the fact that the Republicans lost seats in the Senate despite a miserable performance by Biden. How can that not be the candidates? If we Republicans don’t get our head straight and move on from Trump and provide candidates who are electable we will suffer defeat in 2024.

Don M
Don M
3 years ago

What a long article that espouses too many complicated factors. Here are THE two factors:
1) All elections including and after 2020 are now tainted with cheating by the dems. Funny how dems now win every critical election. Republicans should have won more of these midterms.
2) The main stream media constantly attacks any Republican while not reporting any negatives about the democrap candidates. Too many low information voters only get their info from the MSM and are therefore woefully uninformed.

CarolV
CarolV
3 years ago

You can’t even begin to have an intelligent conversation about what went wrong until the copious multi-cycle evidence of machine fraud is owned up to. Arizona should have laid all fantasies to rest that machine fraud can be “overwhelmed” or “out-voted”. The digital bandits created insurrection conditions, and they have to go if our constitutional republic is to survive much longer.

David Wynne
David Wynne
3 years ago

Walker was not a good candidate. He was used by by the Republican machine because of his name recognition. Herschel is not a politician and Warnock is. Walker sounded like a wind up toy or had a chip implanted to spout standard Republican talking points. Walker does not understand how to be a politician. He’s too nice a guy. In his defense he was the victim of character assassination by a very well run Warnock hit campaign. That alone did not defeat Walker. Look at Brian Kemp and explain why he won handily and Walker did not.
I felt sorry for Walker because of how he was used and mislead by those around him. Given the right advice and using his own natural instincts that all good running backs have, Herschel might have scored.

lawrence greenberg
lawrence greenberg
3 years ago

What lesson to be learned? Very simple. Voter registration and election fraud will work every time if you do nothing to try to stop it. When your opponents cheat every time, you must either stop them from cheating or you must cheat also or you will lose every time. But the Republicans never seem to learn this lesson.

edward
edward
3 years ago

The marxists have been running election scams for years to the point that they are now doing it out in the open. Have you seen the “republicans” challenge any of this crap FORCEFULLY? and you won’t because these guys are like a lot of corporate america; worthless a t–s on a bull and worried ONLY about THEIR OWN WORTHLESS CAREERS!!! corporate america is not worried about this country and neither are politicians.

Trcoa
Trcoa
3 years ago

So let me get this straight. A candidate who claims to be a preacher in a Christian church,who is pro abortion isn’t a flawed candidate, I can’t think of what one is. The November election was ripe with fraud for example, the 150,000 spike I. Votes for warlock and no waver in Walker’s line is voter fraud. Every time Walker got ahead that night, magically warlocks line would change course and trend up in a fashion that wasn’t the norm. What have the republicans done to investigate? Absolutely nothing but complain.

Rabi
Rabi
3 years ago

Yes, I agree the Republicans must learn how to stop election fraud!!!!

Karen
Karen
3 years ago

Yeah, I believe Warnock won over Hershel just like I have a hole in my head. Just like Fetterman and Hobbs, and many others. Repub’s better get on the stick all right and learn from the Dems how to win elections and do just that!

Kay
Kay
3 years ago

It looks like only the very rich or backed by very rich to buy your winning of an election. No one but state donors should be allowed to back the state candidate. It is not to be a US deal. Our elections are a joke now!!

John
John
3 years ago

GOP voters better get strategic and quit being so puritanical about how corrupt all politicians are. It makes me sick that people don’t see the big picture. The GOP should have won Georgia but they didn’t go all in for victory. The only thing that matters is defeating and pounding to dust the anti-American Leftist Democrats. The Left has become a clear and present danger to the USA. Step One is the GOP must win elections. Step Two is the GOP must be cleaned up and become the Party of Lincoln it is supposed to be. No quarter will be given and victory will be ours. God Bless the USA and the GOP.

John Gagne
John Gagne
3 years ago

The GOP needs to get off their high horse, pull their collective heads out of the Democrat’s hind quarters and fight. The Democrats may well be our constitutional enemies from within, but the Republicans are treasonous traitors betraying their oaths, the Republican platform, and all of America by their inaction.

Shane Stanton
Shane Stanton
3 years ago

The GOP is the problem. It is just that simple.

James Thompson
James Thompson
3 years ago

Its easy, just buy votes. It works for the Dems. Free stuff ! And we think the politicians are the clowns.

Matthew Halbach
Matthew Halbach
3 years ago

Large corrupt cites are controlling election outcomes. GA is no exception.
Look at an election map of America and it’s a glaring fact. We never should of passed the 17th amendment.

Kevin
Kevin
3 years ago

Yeah, get rid of the machines, mail-ins

InsanitySquared
InsanitySquared
3 years ago

I am a right-leaning independent immigrant living in the Great Swing State of GA. I voted to re-elect Gov. Brian Kemp as he is a moderate Republican. But I voted against Herschel Walker who was obviously a terrible candidate and an embarrassment to both the party and our state.

I also voted for Trump in 2020 but I became a never again Trumper after J6. If that dumb Trump behaved in a more rational manner, I would entertain the possibility of voting for him again in 24. But he never plans too far ahead. He is no chess player – he is a bad checker player at best who plans only half a move ahead.

Long story short, Republicans need to move away from Trump, trumpism and radical messaging to win over Independents’ voices. Peace,

Moses
Moses
3 years ago

Could we please stop referring to them as Main Stream media, they are left wing media, republicans have the right wing media. There no longer exist a main stream media in America.

Honey
Honey
3 years ago

Why is it that the largest counties with the most democrat voters are always the last to reveal their results? Forgive me for believing Walker might not really have lost.

Walter
Walter
3 years ago

I heard today that Warnock’s investors outspent Walker by $100M. The Dem Communists bought the office by less than 3%. Most of the money came from out of the state of Georgia. Tragic. The people of Georgia & the rest of America now have another Biden Bootlicker. If you consider this a fair election, the people of Georgia got what they deserve, but the rest of America didn’t. So, what if the Republicans slightly own the House, of concern is how many of their members are RINOS. Without the Senate, and a corrupt JB President, the Conservatives are no more than a lame duck. Unfortunate for the rest of America. To make things fair, shouldn’t there be a financial limit for all political office runoffs? Put the 85K new IRS agents to work! So, who is buying & running our Great Country? Surely, it is the Legal American citizens. We are a country of corrupt and no representation. Hard to be optimistic with a corrupt government.

SAW
SAW
3 years ago

Good Breakdown Article.

My wife and I live in NE Georgia and have Comcast for TV, Internet, land line, mobile phones, everything. Other cable provider alternatives have very limited service areas.

Everything we frequent electronically, Warnock’s handlers were ALWAYS attacking Herschel personally during commercial segments, interrupting our internet articles, our mobile phones, calling and texting incessantly on all our phones, etc. for the last four to five months and then it got worse just before the elections, and of course, the run-offs.

Warnock’s personal issues did not even begin showing up until two weeks ago and even then, it was only sparingly.

Deb
Deb
3 years ago

Play by Democrats’ Rules and WIN.

NewDay
NewDay
3 years ago

I keep hearing about flawed candidates but what about the flawed democratic agenda. People are watching the mainstream mantra news while eating their dinner which cost twice as much as last year. then going to the polls and voting for the party that is causing the problem. Warnock belongs to a party of flawed ideas, why would you support that?

Rosemary
Rosemary
3 years ago

Broken Hearted Herschel Walker did not WIN! Rino Mitch McConnell did not support him!!! And the stupid GOP Senators put that TURTLE back in charge, especially horrifying Mitch has all the DNC money to waste on who he wanted to win, other RINOS…………DITCH MITCH & RONNA ROMNEY is what I want!!!

Gloria
Gloria
3 years ago

Get rid of McConnell, McCarthy and McDaniels. That would be a great start.

David Millikan
David Millikan
3 years ago

Don’t trust Senator McConnell who GAVE the Senate to democrats.

Max
Max
3 years ago

Bottom Line: The Democrats have come up with strategy to win most other state elections at the national level. The Dems will continue their march to win the states that they need to maintain their control at the national level. Socialism marches on, uncontrolled.

robert b charles
china biden and secretary of defense lloyd austin

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