Despite a barrage of scandals, Herschel Walker is still a favorite among voters.
A new poll reports that while Latino voters are undecided on their choice for governor, they overwhelmingly support Republican candidate Herschel Walker over incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Georgia News Collaborative poll puts Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams at 49% and incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp at 48% among likely Hispanic voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5.6 percentage points. However, Walker’s lead over Warnock is greater, 47% to 41%, with Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver pulling in 11% of the vote.
The report comes as Walker attempts to rebound from a series of high-profile scandals that left many wondering if the former University of Georgia football star’s chances were finished. (RELATED: Sean Hannity Catches Herschel Walker Off Guard With Tough Questions After Bombshell Abortion Allegations)
Republicans and Democrats have been making inroads with Hispanic voters over the years and recently Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also speculated Latinos will be a big part of Republicans’ success in November.
As American Liberty News previously reported:
“We used to do really well with Venezuelan and Cuban voters,” she said. “But now, we’ve expanded, and it’s Colombian and Mexican and other Hispanic voters, and I think the key for the Republican Party is we have not treated the Hispanic community in a monolithic way.”
According to the Pew Research Center, 34.5 million Hispanic Americans will be eligible to vote in 2022, up more than 4.7 million compared to the prior election and accounting for 62% of all new eligible voters ahead of the midterm elections. Polling shows that, like other demographics and the country as a whole, the economy remains by far the top issue for Hispanic voters.
While half say they plan to continue voting for Democratic candidates, 28% say they will vote Republican, a significantly higher rate than the GOP has secured in elections past.
On Monday Georgia shattered early voting records with nearly 123,000 in-person voters casting their ballots, according to state election officials.
“This blows away the previous midterm first-day record of approximately 72,000, and we have lots of voting to go today,” Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer at the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, tweeted Monday.
The record-shattering election news comes after gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, along with other Democrats, repeatedly claimed voting laws passed in 2021 would suppress voters across the state.
At the time President Biden called the new laws designed to protect elections “Jim Crow 2.0” but it took conservatives no time to react to the news officially de-bunking the popular Democrat narrative.
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Lord, please don’t let Abrams win!
The good Lord can’t be that cruel to the people of Georgia.