Democrat Warnock and Republican Walker epitomize their parties’ battle for the majority in the House during a quiet day
Nobody wants to wait long tonight to find out which party will get the majority in the Senate. That’s what was at stake on Tuesday in Georgia, one of only two states in the country to force a runoff without any candidate getting more than 50 percent of the vote. As the creator of that political system approved in a 1968 constitutional referendum, it was about making it difficult for the black vote, segregationist governor Lester Maddox later explained. And that black voice is the one that was looked at with a magnifying glass this Tuesday.
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 election two years ago and presents this contest as “the battle between good and evil.” His rival, Herschel Walker, 60, is exploiting his fame as a soccer star. In his early years he triumphed in teams such as 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 befriended the tycoon.
When it came time to pick a candidate himself to snatch the Georgia seat from the Democrats, the tycoon’s hopeful hopes of a return to the White House convinced Walker, a native of Georgia, to participate in the Republican Party primaries. With his help, Walker defeated six other rivals, but he couldn’t win the generals on the 8th, and Warnock couldn’t stop him either. So what was at stake yesterday was more than the Senate majority or even “the battle between good and evil” described by Senator Warnock. Both want to know once and for all whether Trump’s candidates, who usually win easily in primaries thanks to the tycoon’s power over his supporters, can win in the generals or commit political suicide.
The good news for democracy is that this bitter struggle has encouraged voting. A record number of voters took advantage of the early voting for the 8th elections, 1.8 million voters, twice as many as in 2018. Perhaps for this reason, the authorities have allowed the period to exercise this early voting as much as possible in the second round, which means that serious comparisons with previous elections are not possible. The Democrats have had to resort to the courts to get the term open until last Friday. There have also been no incidents on a day that passed normally.
The experts analyzed the mood of the main provinces to predict the outcome. If voter turnout was low in the Conservative or Democratic Party strongholds, you could expect sudden death for your candidate. Warnock had to beat the first-round vote and Walker had to compare himself to what Governor Brian Kemp, who easily won re-election without independents agreeing to vote for the full GOP ticket, had to match. Walkers seem to stink too much.
The American football star who promises to ban abortion in all his cases has been accused by two of his girlfriends of paying for the procedure to terminate the pregnancy. His ex-wife and another girlfriend he spent five years with also accuse him of domestic violence, and his 23-year-old son says he has been “a liar all his life,” he said on social media. “We won’t let you pretend to be a moral family man at the expense of me and my mother,” he told her. “He was an absent father. He had four kids with four different women and wasn’t home to raise any of them,” Christian Walker tweeted. His mother has kept quiet throughout the campaign, but during an interview with ABC News in 2008, she said that Walker even put a gun to her temple and threatened to “blow the goddamn brain out”.
That’s the character the Republican Party has been forced to defend in this Tuesday’s election, as a last resort to capture Biden’s upper house majority, which will depend in any case on Vice President Kamala Harris’ vote to break the Solomonic. . tie the polls released on November 8.
Source: La Verdad
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