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Georgia runoff: full steam ahead for Democrats as they aim to solidify Senate majority

Polls suggest narrow lead for Raphael Warnock as party brings out big guns to campaign days before election

The Guardian - US

Georgia’s runoffs have helped one Atlanta TV station rake in nearly $232M in political advertising in under two years

WSB-TV leads the nation in political advertising, thanks in no small part to Georgia’s rules on runoff elections.

Fortune

Patricia Murphy: Herschel Walker’s campaign has been beneath Georgia voters

Believe it or not, Herschel Walker is the star of some of my favorite childhood memories. I remember him soaring, wingless, over piles of opposing teams’ players while we watched UGA football games on our family TV.

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Election-Denying Republicans Were Big Losers in the 2022 Midterms

And most of them quietly slunk away afterwards.

Reason

Warnock, Walker fight to the finish in US Senate runoff

ATLANTA — A bruising campaign for the final election of 2022 will come to an end Tuesday as voters settle a runoff between U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker that could widen or narrow the chamber’s Democratic majority.

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Why Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan didn’t cast a ballot in the Senate runoff

ATLANTA — Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan is one of the highest-ranking Republicans in Georgia. He’s also one of the most prominent GOP critics of Herschel Walker’s Senate run – and the pro-Donald Trump forces that helped him win the nomination.

Tribune News Service

In Arizona, losing candidate points to perceived conflict

Republican Kari Lake and supporters of her failed campaign for Arizona governor are attacking Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs as having a conflict of interest for overseeing the election she won

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Herschel Walker’s stumbles complicate final stretch of his runoff bid

ATLANTA — As a surge of Georgia voters streamed to the polls this weekend, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock headlined a half-dozen rallies across metro Atlanta. Herschel Walker, his Republican opponent, was nearly invisible, without a public event for five days.

Tribune News Service

Georgia moves forward with plan to implement work requirements for Medicaid coverage

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) announced that the state will begin a work-for-Medicaid program, called Georgia Pathways, in July 2023. The program will require low-income individuals to complete 80 hours of work or volunteering in order to qualify for Medicaid coverage.

Ballotpedia

A week out, Walker and Warnock seek to get out the vote - Roll Call

More than 156,000 early ballots were cast over the Thanksgiving weekend in Georgia as the Senate runoff nears its Dec. 6 conclusion.

Roll Call

Here's what to know about Georgia's Senate runoff

Both parties are eager for the additional seat and its six-year term.

Axios

Georgia runoff: Early voting for Warnock-Walker round 2

Early in-person voting for the nation's last U.S. Senate seat is underway statewide in Georgia

The Independent UK

Walker won’t say where he stands on issues facing the Senate

ATLANTA — With a runoff extending Georgia’s U.S. Senate campaign by four weeks, it can be easy to forget that the eventual winner of the contest will have a job to do after this: a six-year term with all the weighty policy decisions that come with it.

Tribune News Service

In Georgia’s US Senate runoff, candidates campaign in unlikely places

On a chilly Saturday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s campaign bus rolled into a park in Cumming, deep in the heart of Forsyth County. Nearly two-thirds of voters in this reliably Republican exurb backed Warnock’s opponent, Herschel Walker, in the general election.

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Raphael Warnock (D) and Herschel Walker (R) are running in the runoff for U.S. Senate in Georgia

Incumbent Raphael Warnock (D) and Herschel Walker (R) are running in the runoff election for U.S. Senate in Georgia on December 6, 2022.

Chicago Sun-Times

Splitting pairs: Doubts about candidates prompted more split-ticket voting in midterms, tipping scales in tight races

AP VoteCast, an extensive survey of this year’s electorate, underscores how voters were selective in their choices in spite of today’s starkly polarized political climate, often rewarding candidates seen as mainstream while rejecting those viewed as too extreme.

Tribune News Service

Path cleared for Georgia to launch work requirements for Medicaid

Georgia is set to become the only state to have work requirements for Medicaid coverage.

Tribune News Service

State asks Georgia Supreme Court to allow enforcement of abortion law

ATLANTA — Attorneys representing Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday asked the Georgia Supreme Court to reverse a Superior Court ruling released earlier this week that blocked enforcement of the state’s anti-abortion law.

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Georgia ban on Saturday voting before Warnock vs Walker runoff would ‘irreparably harm’ voters, judge rules

Raphael Warnock’s campaign wins in a lawsuit against a state law banning early in-person voting on the Saturday after a holiday, allowing voters to head back to the polls on the weekend after Thanksgiving

Tribune News Service

‘We cannot rest on our laurels’: Kemp aims to boost Walker in Senate runoff

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday campaigned for the first time with Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker, the most significant effort yet to persuade voters who backed both the governor and Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock to return to the GOP fold for the runoff.

WEKU

The path looks uncertain for Democrats after losing the Georgia governorship again

Democrat Abrams ran for governor 4 years ago but narrowly lost to Republican Brian Kemp. This year, she lost by a larger margin. Analysts are uncertain whether it was her message or political party.

Tribune News Service

Why Kemp-Warnock voters will be decisive in Georgia runoff

Ed Cordell considers himself a moderate Republican with a Libertarian bent. In the November midterm, he voted for Gov. Brian Kemp but couldn’t bring himself to back GOP U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker. As the Dec. 6 runoff nears, though, he has a different mindset.

The Independent UK

Walker, Republicans look for party unity in Georgia runoff

Republicans insist they’re working together to help Herschel Walker unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in next month's Georgia runoff

Tribune News Service

Gov. Kemp testifies before Georgia grand jury on 2020 election; Flynn directed to appear

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp testified for roughly three hours Tuesday before the Fulton County special grand jury examining whether former President Donald Trump and his allies criminally meddled in Georgia’s 2020 elections.

Tribune News Service

Gov. Kemp testifies before Georgia grand jury on 2020 election; Flynn fights summons

ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp testified for roughly three hours Tuesday before the Fulton County special grand jury examining whether former President Donald Trump and his allies criminally meddled in the state's 2020 elections.

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