The latest polling reveals Republican candidate Herschel Walker and Democratic incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock are in a statistical dead heat in the Georgia Senate runoff election.
Though Democrats have already retained control of the Senate in 2023, both sides are pumping tens of millions of dollars into the race. That race is now in its final days.
Walker’s campaign, which has been mired in several controversies in the last week, is receiving a major boost in the form of a seven-figure expenditure for get-out-the-vote efforts.
Leaked documents obtained by The Intercept show the Empowerment Alliance, “a dark-money group tied to the fossil fuel industry,” is injecting $1.5 million into the race to spur voters to the polls for Walker.
The group is “devoted to policies to secure America’s energy independence, and, with it, America’s prosperity, freedom and security.”
Walker (seen above on the campaign trail) faces Warnock in the most brutal election of the 2022 midterm cycle. After neither candidate earned the 50 percent of the vote required to seal the election on Nov. 8th, the duo advanced to a head-to-head runoff per state law. Former presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama have both appeared in the campaign, albeit with Obama rallying with Warnock in the campaign’s closing days while Trump has chosen to distance himself recently in order to aid Walker’s chances.
Georgia voters will decide the election on Dec. 6th.
[The Intercept; photo from The Savannah Morning News, via USA Today]
