Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate candidate in Georgia, 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 nastier in recent weeks. Warnock leads Walker by four points in the latest polling.
Walker currently faces a scandal involving a $1,500 tax credit he claimed on a $3 million home outside Dallas, Texas, intended only for primary residences. Now, there’s an official complaint out of Georgia urging the State Attorney’s office to investigate the matter.
According to the Associated Press, private citizen Ann Gregory Roberts asked the Attorney General’s office and Georgia Bureau of Investigation to “promptly investigate this apparent violation of Georgia law” ahead of the special run-off election. She wants authorities to investigate whether “Walker violated state law by registering and voting in Georgia while knowingly maintaining his principal residence in Texas.”
It’s the latest development in the vicious campaign cycle. 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 to finally decide the election on Dec. 6th. Democrats have already retained control of the Senate in 2023.
[Chattanooga Times Free Press]
