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For Walker…No Republican Georgia Governor Kemp running…No Trump….Less Republican Voters….

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The First and formost issue for Herschel Walker was ‘Himself’….

He was a lousy candidate ….

But the Donald Trump endorsement just helped Democrat’s turnout vote more than Republican’s….

Not having Georgia Republican Governor Kemp on the ticket alos depressed the Republican vote…..

And?

Walker LOST in the first go-round….

Winning was gonna be harder no matter what…

Oh, and Republicans voter suppression policies away from early and mail-in voting hurt them….

Democrats padded their Senate majority on Tuesday night thanks in part to a rebuke of the Republican candidate in Georgia’s suburbs.

Turnout was somewhat lower in Tuesday’s runoff than in the November general election, by about 400,000 voters, but Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D) more than doubled his lead over Republican Herschel Walker. The Democrat led by about 95,000 votes as of Wednesday, besting his 37,000-vote margin in the general election.

Both candidates fought to get voters back to the polls just a month after the Nov. 8 general election. Runoff elections, triggered when no candidate receives more than 50 percent, regularly have lower turnout. About 3.5 million voters showed up for the runoff versus 3.9 million in November’s general election.

Walker was seemingly unable to turn out the voters he needed to offset Warnock’s advantages in urban and suburban areas. While Warnock won suburban areas by 190,000 votes in November, he led them by 223,000 in the December runoff.

Walker, plagued by several scandals during his campaign, had already shown weakness in these areas: The ex-football star had already underperformed Gov. Brian Kemp, also a Republican, significantly in the vote-rich Atlanta suburbs in November…..

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