Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Georgia in Senate, faces incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock in the nation’s most brutal election of the 2022 midterm election cycle.
Neither candidate earned the 50 percent of the vote required by Georgia election law to seal the election on Nov. 8th, and the duo advanced to a head-to-head runoff election that has gotten even nastier in recent weeks.
Walker faces a major fundraising disadvantage, with Warnock commanding nearly three times the amount of campaign cash on hand (roughly $30 million to $10 million).
The most recent polling available, funded by the American Association of Retired People, found Walker trailing Warnock by four points, which is outside the poll’s margin of error of 3.3 percentage points.
The poll found that while Walker leads Warnock by nine points among voters 50 or older, Warnock leads Walker by 24 percentage points among voters 18-49. That’s a difference of 33 percentage points.
The poll found voters more supportive of Walker as they got older, but it still wasn’t enough to overcome the four-point percentage gap between the two familiar foes. Former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump have campaigned for their party’s respective candidates as both sides have spent more than a combined $241 million on the race thus far.
Georgia voters head to the polls on Dec. 6th. Democrats have already retained control of the Senate in 2023.
[AARP]
