Sen. Warnock's path to winning Georgia's runoff is the one Democrats will need to win the 2024 presidential election in what has been a very red state: Maintaining their edge in the suburbs — while motivating the Black voter base to turn out.
was the nation's most expensive,"An astonishing $1.4 billion has been spent on just four races in the state since the beginning of 2020," The New York TimesWalker's loss caps a historic GOP embarrassment. 2022 is the first midterm election since 1934 — 88 years ago — when the party in power successfully defended every incumbent Senate seat.
Celebrity candidates endorsed by President Trump — including Walker, a Heisman Trophy winner — performed disastrously this cycle, squandering numerous winnable races across the country.Sen. Rick Scott , head of the GOP's Senate , made a point of staying out of primaries. That allowed not-ready-for-prime-time candidates to emerge as nominees.In Georgia, Walker was the only statewide Republican candidate who lost. The GOP swept every other office — from governor to state insurance commissioner.
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