'Trump’s unpopularity is potentially keeping voters from casting a ballot for Walker,' writes Harry Enten | Analysis
Donald Trump’s continued presence on the American political scene is one of the reasons Republicans underperformed in this year’s midterm elections. The former president’s debilitating effect on his party was perhaps no more evident than in Georgia, where Trump’s Republican nemesis Gov. Brian Kemp cruised to reelection, while his preferred Senate candidate, Herschel Walker, was forced into a runoff with Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.
To put in perspective how unusual it is for a former president to have such a strong effect, consider the last time there was an unpopular Republican president who had recently left the White House. In a September 2010 CNN pre-election poll, Republican House candidates were still winning voters who didn’t like George W. Bush or Barack Obama by about 50 points. If Walker was winning those who didn’t like Biden or Trump by 50 points, he’d be leading in our Georgia poll.
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