![]() ![]() Ultimately, this is really not about the betterment of Georgia. “You’ve got a Black guy affirming the Republican anti-everything agenda. Brown is a cofounder of the Atlanta-based Black Voters Matter Fund she and the organization played a significant role in Warnock being elected to the Senate in the first place, in a 2020 special election that dragged into a January 2021 runoff. “Herschel Walker could be Kermit the Frog and this would be a close race,” she says. Regardless of how incompetent Walker is, how unprepared for the job, those MAGA Republicans are going to look at him and go, ‘He’s for our tribe.’” “He is a terrible candidate, but so was Donald Trump. “Tribalism is the only thing he’s got going,” Belcher says. There’s a perception of him as a hero that is hard to shake.” Walker wore red as a Bulldogs running back it’s his current red Republican jersey that’s more powerful, however. “Do not underestimate University of Georgia football voters. “This race has been going on forever, and the big question is, why hasn’t Walker tanked?” says Doug Heyl, a Democratic strategist who has worked on multiple Georgia statewide campaigns. Far more locally, Walker is a college football legend. Wade, but 2022 remains a tough midterm environment for Democrats, with Biden’s unpopularity a drag on races across the country. Conditions have changed somewhat recently, especially after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Walker, despite his multiple flaws as a first-time candidate, was ahead in several late-summer polls, buoyed in particular by three factors. The state is a fascinating mix of urban and rural-with one of the largest percentages of Black residents nationally-whose demographics are being continually scrambled by an influx of new residents, many of them from the North. It remains to the right of center but went, crucially, for Joe Biden against Donald Trump in 2020. He is acknowledging that Georgia has become one of the country’s most politically complex and least predictable states. Belcher is not being condescending or simplistic. So yeah, I believe it’s close,” says Cornell Belcher, a Democratic pollster and strategist who worked on both of Barack Obama’s winning presidential campaigns. It seems inexplicable, even in modern American politics-not just that Walker could win, but that his race against the incumbent, Raphael Warnock, is even a close contest. Herschel Walker may well be elected a US senator. ![]() Walker often struggles to speak in coherent sentences he seems to believe the state of Georgia has too many trees. In a memoir, Walker claimed to have dissociative identity disorder and to have pointed a loaded gun at his own head. He has allegedly threatened to kill his ex-wife (which he claims to have no memory of, but has not denied), and he has fathered three children with women to whom he was not married. Herschel Walker has lied about graduating from college, and about launching a breaded-chicken empire. ![]()
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