3 Unsexy Reasons Warnock Beat Walker In
The Georgia Runoff
The Federalist,
by
Victoria Marshall
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
12/8/2022 6:39:10 PM
The Georgia runoff is over. Raphael Warnock came out on top (as expected). And Republicans are once again running the “quality candidate” canard as the reason for Herschel Walker’s loss (in addition to the overblown, overused, Trump scapegoat). Yet despite the fact Walker was outspent by Warnock nearly 3 to 1 (Warnock spent $126,232,942 to Walker’s $48,455,356), Walker performed remarkably well, netting 48.6 percent of the vote to Warnock’s 51.4 percent.
This as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp only came out in full force for Walker after he coasted to reelection in November (loaning his field organizing team to the Senate Leadership Fund — the GOP’s Senate super PAC which backed Walker).
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 12/8/2022 6:52:16 PM (No. 1352323)
Suggest as a Must Must Read.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
andyboy 12/8/2022 7:06:18 PM (No. 1352330)
If the GOP does not address ballot harvesting/fraud, nothing else will matter. Not in 2024, not in 2026, not ever.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Krause 12/8/2022 7:17:47 PM (No. 1352332)
So democrat soldiers, who probably have stacks of blank ballots, prey on uninformed people, mostly black, who probably had no intention of voting because they don't follow politics, get paid to 'help' them fill out the their ballots.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/8/2022 7:29:38 PM (No. 1352339)
FTA - "They did this by pulling out their most effective ground game tactics such as harvesting (and curing) ballots, spending millions of dollars in various get-out-the-vote efforts and going to court to expand and cement their radical post-2020 election law changes. And it paid off. If Republicans can’t stop their tactics, then the GOP would do well to mirror them."
Same o, same o. We're still not getting it. 2,000 Mules, Part 2.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
volksford 12/8/2022 8:30:17 PM (No. 1352359)
Your banana republic election guide . Buena Suerte !
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 12/8/2022 8:57:50 PM (No. 1352376)
Ballot harvesting needs to be challenged in the courts all the way to the Supreme Court. All States need to pass laws outlawing the practice with severe penalties if caught after being illegal. Until that happens the Republicans cannot win any election.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
spacer 12/8/2022 9:02:12 PM (No. 1352380)
This is exactly right. Clay and Buck ought to read this.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hershey 12/8/2022 9:09:54 PM (No. 1352385)
It's not the votes, it's who counts the votes...they stole another one...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chance_232 12/8/2022 9:45:07 PM (No. 1352393)
Ya'll can whine and delude yourself about the election being stolen, it wasn't, to your hearts content. But it won't change the outcome. And it won't win future elections.
These are the new rules and the GOP had better get real good at playing by the new rules very quickly. This is 2022. And the GOP is campaigning like it's 1982. Politics stopped being a gentleman's sport and has become a blood sport. Republicans act like rules, civility and self control are still a thing.
What would you expect from the "well I never" pearl clutching party.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/8/2022 10:50:53 PM (No. 1352431)
Hard to beat a black preacher in Georgia.
How much did McConnell help Walker monetarily?
I would say damned little, perhaps zero.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DonQuijote 12/9/2022 12:17:52 AM (No. 1352458)
Actually, number 10 is spot on. Let's get rid of the old way of doing things and the old guard. McConnell has got to go. We need a new sheriff.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rinktum 12/9/2022 4:36:32 AM (No. 1352518)
Walker did not win because cheating was a factor but more importantly, he lost because the GOPe wanted him to lose. McConnell and company made sure that anyone Trump supported was defeated. It’s as simple as that. The GOPe exists to protect the status quo.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/9/2022 4:42:14 AM (No. 1352521)
Cheating, stealing, fraud is not sexy? Come on! Republicans don't have to run a quality candidate; their candidate just needs to be able to finish a sentence without lying. The left runs the worst candidates and they win. Why does quality matter when cheating, stealing, and fraud are involved? If you don't believe fraud and theft is happening while advocating that our side figures out how to steal and commit fraud too, you're the deluded one.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Jebediah 12/9/2022 8:02:05 AM (No. 1352616)
I would have voted for Walker, simply because we needed that Senate vote, and also because Warnock is such a raging Lefty---but I think the man was unqualified note how everyone BUT Walker spoke for him in the last days) and had too many skeletons in his closet (Warnock did as well but they were not exploited.). Were the NON TRUMP candidate running, the one Trump and Walker got rid of, I have no doubt he would have won. Again the hand of the Donald. For all the good he did as President, and I voted for him twice, he has brought so many personal grudges and vendettas in to the picture in multi states, that we lost our Red Wave but good.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
felixcat 12/9/2022 8:42:11 AM (No. 1352654)
Not mentioned is that the LT Gov(R) of Georgia came out just before the election and said neither candidate was worthy of his vote. Which means that high minded Republicans probably decided not to vote while Warnock braindead Lefty voters were even more encourage to vote for Warlock.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
broken01 12/9/2022 8:48:04 AM (No. 1352661)
Agreed #7 and that's why I've said that it takes those two guys to do the work at the 12pm slot of one man in Rush Limbaugh. As far as why Walker lost. The corrupt stinking democrats have protected to art of the steal. Period. It's not the quality of the candidates (John Fetterman anyone?). It's ballot harvesting en masse. The Republicans need to get this stopped or we will have the same bull Schiff happen in 2024 and beyond.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/9/2022 8:54:58 AM (No. 1352673)
Yesterday I had outlined three (essentially similar) three reasons - ballot harvesting, fraudulent vote counting and co-opted judges. I will accept smart spending by Democrats as part of it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
little guy 12/9/2022 9:12:34 AM (No. 1352691)
Here's the real reasons Walker lost --- in no order of priority.
1) The GOP leadership --- from McConnell to Rona McDaniel did not want anyone elected who did not support them. They don't want boat-rockers.
2) It is much easier to be in the minority in D.C. ---no heavy lifting and you blame the other guy.
3) The Turtle was afraid if he had a true majority --- aside from a rebellion to replace him as leader --- he would also get blamed for not stopping the border, getting more oil, blocking Biden, etc. So much easier to throw your hands up and say I don't have the votes
4) Anyone Trump now endorses must be destroyed
5) All that money raised by War-lock was spent in the local black churches. Not on ads or robo-calls. It was a boon for every small time "preacher" in Georgia. Many of the storefront "churches" are already getting new roofs, windows, etc. The preachers are getting new cars.
6) Ballot harvesting is a euphemism for stealing and/or making up votes.
7) Early voting is another euphemism for theft.
8) The Republicans in Georgia resented an outsider (i.e., someone not under their thumb) coming in any not oweing them anything.
If I could think of more reasons ... I'd add them!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
armywife85 12/9/2022 9:41:05 AM (No. 1352726)
Simple suggestion.....Once the primaries are over then all hands on deck get behind our nominees and get them elected. If Conservatives and the establishment don't learn to unify and work together once the primaries are over we will never win another national election.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
lennon47 12/9/2022 10:07:38 AM (No. 1352754)
Warnock won by cheating. The Dems have master election fraud. The Republican elites say Herchel was not a good candidate. If Jesus ran against Warnock he would have lost - damn it - the Dems cheat ! ! !
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 12/9/2022 11:29:27 AM (No. 1352871)
If in the next two years nothing is done about ballot harvesting Trump, DeSantis or any republican will ever see the inside of the White House we will have selections not elections. If the republicans don't move on this, I'm not voting in 2024 because my one vote is canceled by fraud names on paper ballots which number in the thousands. Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania were straight up 'stolen' and this will continue. We now have a third world country and a fraud government.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
tearza 12/9/2022 11:30:00 AM (No. 1352872)
The reason Warnock won was because of the Uniformed Black population around Atlanta voted for Socialist over
Capitalist.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 12/9/2022 11:46:39 AM (No. 1352892)
I thought handling another person's ballot was illegal? I thought only fascist California has a law permitting this? In our state even if I hand deliver my wife's absentee ballot instead of mailing it (yeah, like the post office is trustworthy?) I can be charged with a misdemeanor.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/9/2022 11:55:59 AM (No. 1352905)
I'm tired of whining about it....pick yourself up and dust yourself off...and let's start all over again...go MAGA!!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
EQKimball 12/9/2022 12:13:06 PM (No. 1352928)
What puzzles me is why, as a other article reported today, did Georgia Republicans stand long lines in historic numbers, in order to—as the article surmises, but did not explain—to vote for Warnock? I suppose the crazy denialists would say something sounds fishy. Naw. Ya think?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
danu 12/9/2022 1:24:43 PM (No. 1352996)
The American colonials did not win their freedom in 1 day or 1 battle, or even w/ a majority of the populace in 1 state or a majority of 'states'.
Iirc, the colonial RINOs of the 1700's [king george's loyalists] exalted their royal ties-- craving money, power, and fancy dress balls.
Our beginnings are to be found, i expect, in a mere 10% of the population, from a patch of grass in western Mass.
God save them all, and Geo. Washington, and the graces of Providence that shone down upon them--especially at Christmas--as they took up
their crosses to follow Liberty's Light through a very long , dark night, wherein the only constant was monetary and political treachery by the
elites and politicians of the day.
Merry Christmas Bee-itch-ez
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 12/9/2022 2:05:26 PM (No. 1353035)
#21, don't forget MI and probably NV too.
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