ATLANTA — It’s been decided: The critical runoff race between Democrat Raphael Warnock and his Republican rival Herschel Walker for one of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats was called for the progressive incumbent senator in the wee hours this morning, with Democrats now tipping the scales of power in the upper chamber, leading with a 51-49 majority.
As neither candidate had won by a 50-percent-plus majority in the general election on November 8, the special election was needed to determine a full-term winner. The victory for Warnock signals both the failure of Georgia Republicans to show up at the polls and the utter rejection of America First candidates by the establishment GOP.
Warnock, the far-Left, so-called pastor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s former church, Ebenezer Baptist, was neck and neck with Walker as votes were beginning to be tallied, and then around 10:00 p.m., he sailed to triumph over his opponent, garnering huge gains in heavily Democratic Fulton and DeKalb counties. The vote counts in those counties were withheld by election officials well into the evening hours after the polls closed at 7:00 p.m.
In the end, Warnock finished with a 95,451 vote lead over Walker, and while many people did not get out and vote, many Georgians also appear to be on board with Warnock’s radical policies. The issues at the center of Warnock’s campaign heavily mirror those of the Biden administration and include the “right” to an abortion with zero restrictions, extreme social justice and climate reforms, open borders, and the advancement of the student loan forgiveness program.
Walker, a solid vote for America First policies, offered Georgians another choice: a chance to restore American values of faith, family, and freedom. The former football star, who rose through the ranks of politics after a sound endorsement from former President Donald Trump, had promised to end the vaccine mandates for military personnel, uphold bans on abortion upon the detection of a fetal heartbeat, and halt the woke agenda in public schools and federal agencies. He also vowed to prohibit men from playing in women’s sports.
Yet Walker’s fight to gain support beyond his MAGA base has been an uphill battle from the start. He has contended with nasty attacks not only from Democrats but from members within his own Republican Party. The vicious personal assaults dealt Walker a huge blow, with damning advertisements and media lies that most certainly played a role in his loss of the crucial Senate seat.
The Republican Accountability Project, for example, has been working overtime to crush all conservative candidates who do not fit the establishment mold. The organization has promised to “push back against lies and conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud and ‘rigged’ elections” and “to unseat those who have tried to overturn a legitimate election and supported impunity for political violence.” RINOs endorsed by the group include Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). Neocon Bill Kristol, who heads the Republican Accountability Project, used every bow in his quiver to strike down the efforts of Walker and others like him fighting to save America from radical and corrupt leadership.
In Georgia, rumors are swirling around the potential “fix” that has Republican Governor Brian Kemp remaining in office but leftists such as Warnock and Jon Ossoff representing Georgians in the U.S. Senate.
People needed to “get into the game,” as Walker proclaimed during one of his bus tour stops in the northern Atlanta suburb of Woodstock. “I’m not a politician, and I’m not going to be a politician,” he said. “I do know how to protect your kids, and the men and women in blue. And I do [know] how to [make America] become energy independent again.”
While no hard evidence of voter fraud yet exists in the runoff, unresolved irregularities from the 2020 presidential election, as well as anomalies present in several high-stakes races in the November 8 midterms, have reduced confidence in the integrity of elections for many Americans.
It is estimated that nearly 200,000 registered GOP voters in Georgia skipped the polls yesterday, while in contrast, the percentage of registered Democrats who showed up was extremely high.
The bipartisan belief that elections in this country are a mess was recently proven in a bombshell report by Rasmussen that looked at the widespread issues in Arizona’s Maricopa County that adversely impacted the results of the state’s gubernatorial race between Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Katie Hobbs.
The poll found that nearly seventy percent of Americans believe that Arizona voters were deprived of their sacred right to vote in the November 8 election. Moreover, 71 percent of those polled believe that the problems affected the outcome of the Senate election in Arizona.
It’s understood that the election isn’t over until the last vote is counted. And while the vote count in Georgia didn’t linger on for days as it did in Arizona, the process of the uploading of votes was excruciatingly painful to watch.
The election-integrity watchdog group VoterGA was monitoring closely the release of vote counts last night and had trained more than 3,000 volunteers to be on the ground at polling and tabulation centers throughout Election Day and into the night.
“We have people observing the [vote counting] process to be sure there’s proper chain of custody forms for the memory cards as they change hands from the poll workers who brought them from the precincts and turned them over to central processing,” a VoterGA volunteer told The New American. “We also have people observing the absentee ballot processing. We have a lot of people out working tonight.”
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