Democrat Warnock and Republican Walker embody their parties’ battle for the majority in the House during an uneventful day
Nobody wants to wait long tonight to find out which party will have the majority in the Upper House. That is what was at stake this Tuesday in Georgia, one of the two states in the country that forces a second round without any of the candidates obtaining more than 50% of the votes. As the creator of that political system approved in a constitutional referendum in 1968 said, it was about making it difficult for the black vote, the segregationist governor Lester Maddox later explained. And that black vote is the one that was looked at this Tuesday with a magnifying glass.
He traditionally favors the Democrats, although this time there is the unique circumstance that both candidates are African-American. Raphael Warnock, 53, became the state’s first black senator in the special elections two years ago and presents this contest as “the fight between good and evil.” His rival, Herschel Walker, 60, exploits his fame as a football star. In his early years he triumphed in teams like the Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Saints, Denver Broncos, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants and New Jersey Generals. It was in the latter, owned by Donald Trump, where he became friends with the tycoon.
When it came time to pick a candidate of his own to wrest the Georgia seat from the Democrats, the tycoon’s hopeful for a return to the White House convinced Walker, a Georgia native, to run in the Republican Party primary. With his help, Walker beat six other rivals, but was unable to win the generals on the 8th. Warnock was unable to check him either. So what was at stake yesterday was more than the majority of the Senate or even “the fight between good and evil” described by Senator Warnock. Both want to know once and for all if Trump’s candidates, who usually win easily in primaries thanks to the tycoon’s power over his supporters, can win in the generals or are political suicide.
The good news for democracy is that this bitter fight has encouraged the vote. A record number of voters took advantage of the early vote for the elections on the 8th, 1.8 million voters, twice the number of 2018. Perhaps for this reason the State authorities have shortened the period to exercise this early vote as much as possible in the second round, which is why serious comparisons with previous elections cannot be established. The Democrats have had to resort to the courts to get the term to be open until last Friday. Nor have there been any incidents in a day that has run normally.
The experts analyzed the vote of the main counties to predict the result. If turnout was low in the Conservative or Democratic Party strongholds, you could anticipate a sudden death for your candidate. Warnock had to beat the first-round votes and Walker had to compare himself to what Gov. Brian Kemp, who easily won re-election without independents agreeing to vote for the full GOP ticket, had to match. Walker’s corpses stink too much.
accusations
The American football star who promises to outlaw abortion in all its cases has been accused by two of his girlfriends of having paid for the procedure to terminate the pregnancy. His ex-wife and another girlfriend with whom he spent five years also accuse him of domestic violence, and his 23-year-old son says he has been “a liar all his life,” she said on social media. . “We’re not going to let you pretend you’re a moral family man at my mother’s and me’s expense,” he told her. «He was an absent father. He had four children by four different women and was not home to raise any of them,” Christian Walker tweeted. Her mother has kept quiet during the campaign, but during an interview with ABC News she recounted in 2008 that Walker went so far as to put a gun to her temple, threatening to blow her “fucking brains out.”
That is the character that the Republican Party has been forced to defend in the elections this Tuesday, as its last option to wrest Biden’s majority in the Upper House, which in any case will depend on the vote of Vice President Kamala Harris to break the Solomonic tie that the polls threw up on November 8.
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