Despite a heavily-contested and very close race, former Georgia Bulldogs running back Herschel Walker was not able to secure victory in his Georgia Senate election. And while Walker doesn’t seem to know what happened in his campaign to cause the defeat, there’s a lot of evidence for one particular theory.
While some may be attempting to blame the Herschel Walker loss on poor Republican voter turnover, the New York Times provides evidence that shows a different story. Republican-leaning showed up to the polls, they just didn’t vote for Herschel Walker.
Here’s what Nate Cohn of The New York Times had to say:
In state after state, the final turnout data shows that registered Republicans turned out at a higher rate — and in some places a much higher rate — than registered Democrats, including in many of the states where Republicans were dealt some of their most embarrassing losses.
Instead, high-profile Republicans like Herschel Walker in Georgia or Blake Masters in Arizona lost because Republican-leaning voters decided to cast ballots for Democrats, even as they voted for Republican candidates for U.S. House or other down-ballot races in their states.
Many Republicans have been critical of Herschel Walker for the past few months with Chris Christie blasting the candidate and one prominent Georgia Republican calling him “one of the worst candidates in our party’s history.”
