Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent Senator of Georgia, faces Republican Herschel Walker 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 as Walker deals with the fallout from a residency tax scandal around his $3 million home outside Dallas, Texas.
Now, Walker faces another problem. After Warnock raised three times the amount of money in the last financial report, the Senator has gone on to lead campaigns across the country in fundraising as well.
Capitol Beat reports the Warnock campaign has raised $175 million through Nov. 16th. That includes more than $52 million since Oct. 20th. That’s more than any campaign in the country and more than twice the closest competitor in Democratic Arizona Senator Jim Kelly’s campaign.
Walker raised $59 million through Nov. 16th, which is good enough for fourth in the country in fundraising numbers.
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.
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