Senator Raphael Warnock is at least emerging as the winner, against the soccer star who supported Trump
You know the Republicans are losing when you hear them say that “Democrats are better at getting their people to vote.” That’s what was heard last night in Georgia, where all indications are that Senator Raphael Warnock will reconfirm in the second round the seat in Congress he’s held since temporarily winning it two years ago. With his victory, Biden’s party gains a majority in the Senate and is freed from the tyranny that a conservative Democrat, Senator Joe Munchin, has exerted over his agenda, whose vote was essential for the Vice President, Kamala Harris, to be able to break the tie.
The battle was near. By less than one point (50.5-49.5, with 93% of votes counted), the result seemed too close to claim victory, except that most of the votes yet to be counted came from the metropolitan city of Atlanta. area, democratic stronghold. People in rural Georgia had voted for Donald Trump’s nominee with their eyes closed because no one now considered him an exemplary senator. Proof of this is that first-round eliminated libertarian candidate Chase Oliver’s 81,000 votes were split between Warnock and Herschel Walker, despite the fact that the Republican Party was his natural destination.
Walker had so many corpses in the closet that Senator Raphael Warnock, 53, presented the match as “the battle between good and evil.” His rival, a longtime football glory at age 60, capitalized on the fame he gained with 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 Georgia’s seat from the Democrats last year, the tycoon’s hopeful hopes of a return to the White House convinced Walker, an African-American and native of Georgia. to apply for office. . With his help, Walker beat six other rivals, but he was unable to win the generals on the 8th and not even in this second round, where he started favorite.
That is the great lesson of Georgia. Trump’s candidates can easily win the Conservative Party primaries, but they have a tough time in the generals. It’s not enough to choose a famous black. Walker was an affront to African-American voters and an embarrassment to staunch conservatives, just as he advocated banning abortion completely in all cases at the federal level.
During the campaign, he was accused by two of his girlfriends of paying for the procedure to terminate the pregnancy. In addition, his ex-wife and another girlfriend with whom he had a five-year relationship accused him of domestic violence, and his 23-year-old son said on social media that “he has been a liar all his life”. “We don’t allow you to pretend to be a moral family man to the detriment of me and my mother,” Christian Walker confronted him. “He was an absent father. He had four kids with four different women and wasn’t home to raise any of them,” she tweeted. His mother remained silent during the campaign and even lent Walker her address so he could register in Georgia, but during an interview with ABC News in 2008, he said he put a gun to her head and threatened to “pull the hell out of her brains.” shoot”. .”
Faced with such a character, Barack Obama presented Warnock as “a classy guy that people like because you feel his integrity when you talk to him,” he said in Atlanta on Thursday. “Someone who has served as a social worker all his life, who speaks the truth, who keeps his word, who treats everyone with decency and respect, even those who oppose him!”
Heavyweights from both parties have been scrambling to defend their candidates in Georgia in recent weeks, throwing more money at a senator’s campaign than a presidential campaign costs. For Democrats, who spent $388 million on Georgia’s first black senator, according to Open Secrets, the investment has paid off. Given the profile of the seats that will be contested in 2024, it is quite possible that the next two years will be the last in which they can enjoy control of the Senate.
With it, they can easily ratify the president’s nominations for federal or top judges, ambassadors or cabinet members. They don’t have to agree with the opposition over chairing the committees, nor pay homage to the most conservative of their own ranks. But they won’t be able to pass laws without negotiating with the opposition because the Republican Party has won a majority in the House of Representatives. As the voters wanted, Democrats and Republicans are doomed to understand each other.
Source: La Verdad
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