Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate in Georgia, faces Democratic incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock in the most brutal election of the 2022 midterm election cycle.
Neither candidate earned the required 50 percent of the vote to seal the election on Nov. 8th, so Walker and Warnock advanced to a special runoff election next month.
The newest polling, released Wednesday by FrederickPolls, COMPETE Digital and AMMPolitical shows the two candidates locked in a statistical dead heat entering the final weeks of the runoff cycle. The poll revealed Walker and Warnock deadlocked with 50 percent of the vote. The poll’s margin for error is 3.1 percent.
The poll of likely Georgia voters revealed 97 percent were “definitely” voting for their selected candidate. Independent voters favored Warnock by a margin of 52 to 48 percent.
A previous poll by the AARP showed Warnock with a four percent lead over Walker (seen above during a Nov. 18 speech).
Both sides have spent more than a combined $241 million on the race, with Warnock having three times as much campaign cash on hand as Walker (nearly $30 million compared to nearly $10 million).
Former presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama have campaigned for their party’s respective candidates, with the former choosing in recent days to avoid campaigning with Walker after campaign aides pleaded for Trump to stay away.
Georgia voters head to the polls on Dec. 6th. The Democrats already retained control of the Senate in 2023.
[FrederickPolls]; photo from The Savannah Morning News, via USA Today Sports]
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