Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker says Georgia’s record-breaking early voting record “looks good” for the GOP with two days until the runoff election.
On Monday, more than a quarter million voters participated in the Georgia runoff election, amounting to the largest in-person early voting day in the state’s history.
While experts say Democrats largely account for most early and absentee voters, Walker says the turnout is good for Republicans as well and encourages voters to “stick with it” as he works to unseat Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock.
“I think the turnout we’re seeing is good, and I want to encourage people to stick with it,” Warnock said earlier this week on the campaign trail.
Warnock has already begun boasting that Democrats are poised to win the final U.S. Senate seat but Walker has pushed back on his opponent’s claims.
“The people right now are having their voices heard, and their vote counted, and I’m happy with the turnout because I think it looks good for me,” Walker told Fox News.
“I think the people that are coming out from what I hear and see, it’s going to be a good thing for us,” Walker added as he was interviewed in his campaign bus after a rally at a community center in this small city in the northwestern corner of the state.
In November’s general election, neither Walker nor Warnock crossed the 50% threshold to win the Senate seat. However, experts say voters who initially supported Libertarian candidate John Oliver are more likely to shift their support to Walker in the runoff which could propel the Republican across the finish line.
On Wednesday, Walker was joined on the campaign trail by Ralph Reed, the founder of the evangelical Christian Faith and Freedom Coalition and a past chair of the Georgia GOP.
“There’s 200,000 people who voted for Brian Kemp who didn’t vote for Herschel Walker and polling shows we’re going to get 10-20% of those people, so that’s’ going to be 10-20 thousand votes that he didn’t get on Nov. 8 that he’s going to get between now and Dec. 6,” Reed, a well-known and veteran political consultant who in the 1990s steered the Christian Coalition, told Fox News. “There’s 81,000 people who voted Libertarian, and all the polling shows he’s [Walker] going to win them two-to-one.”
According to the latest survey from Emerson College Polling and The Hill, the two candidates are nearly tied with less than one week until the election.
The poll found that 49 percent of very likely voters surveyed said they would back Warnock, compared to 47 percent who said they would vote for Walker. A separate 4 percent said they were undecided; that polling falls within the margin of error, effectively tying the two candidates.
When undecided voters were asked which candidate they were leaning toward, support for Warnock increased to 51 percent while Walker’s support rose to 49 percent.
But when respondents were asked who they expected would win the Georgia Senate runoff regardless of whom they supported, a wider gap emerged: 57 percent said they expected Warnock to prevail compared to 43 percent who said Walker would.
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