With just days until a runoff in Georgia between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Republican Herschel Walker that will determine the balance of power in the Senate, polls indicate the race is just as tight as ever.
Recent polling showed Warnock with a slight edge over Walker, leading his Republican challenger by only 2 percentage points, according to a survey by Emerson College conducted during the last week of November. Although Democrats have already clinched 50 seats in the Senate, giving them a narrow majority with Vice President Kamala Harris’s tiebreaking vote, a win in Georgia would give the party more breathing room and allow them to scrap a power-sharing agreement with Republicans.
Both campaigns have largely acknowledged early votes may skew toward Warnock, while part of Walker’s advantage will come from in-person voting on the day of the election.As was the case with the November election, Walker must still grapple with widespread scrutiny resulting from a number of scandals that emerged during the midterm election cycle.
Those accusations may be playing into Walker’s favorability ratings, with only 39% of Georgia voters viewing him favorably, compared to 52% who said the opposite, according to a recent survey by CNN. Additionally, a majority of state voters said they consider Walker to be dishonest and untrustworthy, including a handful of voters who said they plan to vote for him, the poll showed.
Meanwhile, Warnock’s campaign has sought to weaponize former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Walker. It released an ad in mid-November tying Walker to Trump, mirroring a larger strategy used by some Democrats during the midterm cycle that sought to paint their Republican opponents as far-right extremists.
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