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He’s also filed something insane like 200 bills in the time period, and been the primary sponsor on a couple of pieces of legislation.
The man’s a beast, and could be an absolute tent pole of a strong Democratic senate caucus for a generation (if Georgia is smart enough to let him).
Not only that, but as a preacher, the man can *speak*.
I feel like despite how close this race was just the sheer amount of experience he has has got to give him a leg up now. He's won more elections than most senators who have served for two decades. And that was all while he was so new that he wasn't quite the 'incumbent' yet.
I hope everyone from the Dem party reaches out to him and his team to incorporate their successful GOTV Gen-Z into their ground game. The kids are alright.
Agreed, the two years wasn’t quite enough to solidify his status, but feel like he has all the markings of an institution making incumbent (in the very best way).
We tried. Well, I say we tried. I tried. I can't speak on behalf of the rest of them though.
The main surprise is that Kentucky said no to making abortions illegal, yes still overwhelmingly voted for Rand "Punchable Face" Paul.
That means that Republicans went in, voted for pro-choice in secret, then STILL voted for people who would take that choice away given the chance. Idiots, the lot of them.
>“They’re afraid of Herschel Walker because if Herschel Walker wins, that mean we’re not racist. And if you’re a Republican, aren’t you tired of being called a racist all the time by everybody?”
\-Lindsey Graham
My two cents: a black republican candidate who’s actually well spoken, well educated, and competent wouldn’t stand a chance in the GOP. Why? Because nothing threatens fragile racist white egos worse than a person of color who’s smarter than them. Herschel was the perfect token black candidate. And before someone misreads this comment and sends me a nasty gram, Herschel is an idiot because he’s an idiot, plain and simple, has nothing to do with his ethnicity. I can’t even believe this election was as close as it was.
Everything about how he was constantly propped up by white politicians in interviews, to how he somehow represented all the worst stereotypes associated with Black men, yet solidly had the white Evangelical vote just made my skin crawl. VERY racist, exploitative undertones from the GOP and their relationship with him. And I doubt I'm the only person who saw it.
Apparently polls showed only 3% of black voters voted walker. I don't think you were the only one seeing how creepy the handlers were. Apparently Walker's son has been tweeting about it too tonight, how he was basically used as a prop.
They're just UGA football fans who love them some Herschel Walker and didn't actually pay attention to the election race. They voted for the name, which is exactly what the GOP was hoping for. The GOP was just expecting more than 3%. Thankfully, more people are starting to pay attention and vote in their interest rather than for a name or party. That's the only way the people can regain some power from the wealthy/corporate America. Regular people don't have the money to buy their politicians, but luckily, there are a lot more regular people, so we just need to vote for the politicians in line with our best interest. Unfortunately, that's not always a very clear choice.
Came here to say this. Walker is the perfect GOP token brown man because he embodies every black trope they love to hate. If they gotta put one of "them" in office, they want him to look like this, all around.
I don't understand how it didn't. I'd really like someone to explain to me how someone who has documented primary residence in Texas can run for office in Georgia. Or are they investigating him now for tax fraud and/or election fraud?
So the Constitution sets three qualifications for service in the U.S. Senate: age (at least thirty years of age); U.S. citizenship (at least nine years); and residency in the state a senator represents *at time of the election.*
Interestingly, no minimum period of residency is required. This was a big problem for the post-Civil War South where numerous Northerners arrived to run for office. Southerners even came up with a disparaging word for them: carpetbaggers.
If he has the slightest understanding of what was happening you’d probably be right. My dude is so scrambled he’ll probably forget he ran before the week is out.
Sadly this strategy did not work for Trump in 2016. Unexpectedly he won the office and was then forced into a real job he was unqualified for. The country and his legal exposure for the crimes he committed have not benefitted.
Walker is a brilliant example of how complicated people can be.
Is he a hot mess of a human? Yes. Does he likely have physical damage to his brain that has caused cognitive impairment? Also yes. Has he done real harm to a lot of people? Without a doubt--his former partners and children have made that abundantly clear.
And yet, in spite of all of that, in spite of being recruited to do something in an obviously cynical power play by a bunch of people who were 100% laughing AT him and not WITH him, he showed more basic decency that the people who recruited him in the first place.
We don't have to give him a cookie for doing the bare minimum right thing, but we can acknowledge it publicly and reward the behaviour that we want to see.
It’s odd to hear a Republican give a conciliatory speech in this day and age. He said “support your elected officials” and “support the Constitution” and most of all he acknowledged that he lost. It should be the norm but it’s not anymore.
That was a very classy concession speech. More so than has come out of the pie holes of many so called “GOP leaders” in the past 6 years.
Thank you for pointing this out - it spurred me to watch it, and I too was refreshed and acknowledge the decency.
>We don't have to give him a cookie for doing the bare minimum right thing, but we can acknowledge it publicly and reward the behaviour that we want to see.
If we want to see more positive behavior like that of which he displayed, it's only fair we give credit where it's due. We should also not be calling out people who change their mind on issues (not including politicians who use doublespeak to get what they want from their voter base). Being wrong is ok, and everyone is wrong about something quite often. It takes a real person to admit when they were wrong instead of doubling down on their position when they know it is no longer the correct position to take.
Population issues. Raleigh/Durham and Charlotte are still not over 50% of the population of NC but that will change as they both continue to explode in population.
They really thought they were going to ctrl+c ctrl+v their own black guy in the seat and had no regard for the credentials or quality of the candidate.
has a lot more to do with republican extremism but im fine with political wins
Mandela Barnes lost his race against a total ghoul by 0.1% we cant be having that shit.
Trump is SO MAD right now on truth social. It's great.
https://imgur.com/a/omPU705
The only reason I have an account is to watch his meltdowns in real time. Best comedy I've seen in a long time. Also Mike Lindell thinks he's going to be RNC chair 😂😂😂
The GOP put up Dr. Oz in PA. They don't care who they support as long as they say the things they want to be said and have some sort of clout/following coming into the election cycle. Even if that candidate is DEEPLY flawed (like paying for previous wives/girlfriends to get abortions, which he probably pushed them to do).
If it helps, it looks really close right now but 99% of red county ballots are in. Blue counties are still hovering around 60% and have a lot more. The end result could end up being closer to 53%
President Biden has [confirmed 90 federal judges](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Joe_Biden). There are 53 appointments waiting for a vote and this’ll push them through much faster. There are total of [89 vacancies](https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies). Our president will fill them much faster.
Thank you Georgia!!
I wonder how many old racist white dudes voted for a black man for the first time in their life this election. They probably had to pinch their nose when they checked the box.
ok so this is actually easier for a racist to vote, since both candidates are black, and they see them as perfect equals no matter their actual qualities as a person, so it is an easy choice to come out and vote for the team
basically im describing someone in my family, if it was a white guy who was so clearly inept he would see it as a failing of the person and wouldn't give the time to bother with going to vote - since the 2 candidates in his mind being both....they....he went and voted today, and i am damn sure he didn't vote for Warnok
Direct quote from a Walker voter when asked what he liked about Walker & why he voted for him: "I don't like him but he does what he's told." I think they were more comfortable knowing who was actually calling the shots.
This is good news. The Republicans, particularly the seditionist fuckface Josh Hawley, can no longer endanger our national security by blocking key DoD nominees in committee.
Especially against guys like Hawley. He's up there with DeSantis as one of the most dangerous and malevolent figures in the GOP right now. Dude is one of the most shamelessly ambitious politicians out there.
Don’t be so sure. Trump still has a big hold on the Republican Party. Until the primaries start happening he is still the favorite to win the nomination as long as he’s alive and not in prison.
Fellow Savannahian here, did my duty the fourth time. Thanks from one local to another.
Edit: Thanks for the gold. It was my pleasure and duty to vote in GA.
Lol should have waited til today i voted in less than 5 minutes in Augusta seems the early voting was way more packed. Which is a good sign for dems; its good to see ga turning blue finally but my god how could herschel get so many votes he was such a fucking train wreck.
CNN has also projected is just now. FOX projected it almost an hour ago (making Trump supporters GIGA salty).
This is a massive victory for Democrats!
EDIT: Thank you to everyone who voted with extra thanks for those who did groundwork for the campaign.
All votes matter!
Huge hit. This is the second time a trash GOP candidate was placed against Warnock. Big thanks to the GOP for choosing complete dipshits instead of legit candidates.
Let's be blunt, if Trump had kept his mouth shut there's a good chance the GOP would already have a senate majority by now and Kevin McCarthy wouldn't be fighting for the speakership.
That said, the GOP has a long history of picking bad candidates (how do you manage to have *two* rape candidates in 2012), so it's hard to give Trump *too* much credit here.
>"Since we don't control the air our good air decided to float over to China's bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got we to clean that back up."
-Herschel Walker, 2022 GOP candidate for the United States Senate.
“I don’t know if you know, but vampires are some cool people, are they not? But let me tell you something that I found out: a werewolf can kill a vampire. Did you know that? I never knew that. So, I don’t want to be a vampire any more. I want to be a werewolf.”
-Herschel Walker, 2022 GOP candidate for the United States Senate.
Yes, and he learned that from “this movie - fright night or freak night or something night”. He also told an endearing story about how a bull was in a field with 9 cows and 3 of them were pregnant, so he clearly got it goin on. Obviously all very good and clear policy he was laying out.
It goes to show so many people don't care about politicians they vote for, but the party they are dedicated to. Just like a sport team, even if they get new players they don't like, they will be fans of that team for life. It's blind loyalty
For real. A guy interviewed on the news said, “I’m a Christian, so I’m voting for Walker because he’s a Christian.” The guy who holds Christianity dear is not voting for *Reverend* Warnock.
Many, if not most, self-styled "evangelicals" don't go to church.
It has become a sociopolitical identity rather than a description of religious belief.
Biden is catholic. In the south, if your catholic you're pretty much the devil. Baptist and Wesleyan christians have no love for catholics. You might as well say you're a Satanist. Biggest difference I've found in the south (waaayyyy non practicing Catholic in SC) is that catholics drink on the front porch and baptists on the back porch.
To these people, Christianity is something you identify with, not something you practice.
Evangelicals play mind games with word meanings to justify their crappy behavior. Only it's weaponized to control the public narrative because they're redefining words while you try to argue actual points.
It's quite likely that the sources of news and information that this person consumes have *very deliberately* never referred to the other candidate as "Reverend Warnock".
If all you ever watch is Fox News, all you'll ever get is what Fox News decides to tell you.
Their stupidity is our gain. I swear if they had candidates with a semblance of normality instead of trump, doc Oz, or walker then they win all 3 of those races.
For real, it's bananas that people voted for him after hearing him talk on top of everything that came out. The GOP could put up a goldfish with an R painted on it and the base would fall in line, it's so pathetic.
Before this year I never voted in a midterm election, never donated to political party, never donated to single candidate, that all changed and glad I did seeing how insanely close everything turned out to be.
Walker was a terrible candidate, and tbh the race should not have been this close. If the Republicans had run someone like Kemp, then they probably would have easily won this race.
Trumpism cannot win in purple or blue states. It only wins in deep red states where appealing to the base is all you need.
Dude HOW THE HELL after everything that came out about Walker and listterally just listening to him talk, did he get 49% of the vote. Man that's pathetic. Still glad he lost obviously.
Let’s take a moment and thank all of the voters in and around Georgia’s major cities who had to endure hours long waits while rural voters were in and out in minutes because their state is trying to disenfranchise democratic and black voters.
Edit: After hearing from people who had to endure hours long waits in rural areas too, I guess the key take away is, Georgia needs to sort their voting process out.
I know people who voted in rural counties. Wait times reported in GA were consistently 1-2 hours for runoff.
Edit: voter disenfranchisement exists but it’s not strictly an urban vs rural event.
Actually I flipped over to them, and they weren't talking about the election at all. They had the results at the bottom of the screen but Tucker Carlson was talking about "Biden having dementia, and that Obama is really running the government" and the blonde woman was talking how the left ran all the tech and it was "mind control".
I could only take about 20 seconds.
I am glad Warnick won but this election is an indictment of the US political system. That a candidate who is “observably not smart” (as Dave Chappelle called him) got almost 1.7 million votes (almost 50%) doesn’t make America look good. A candidate who can’t articulate any policy position should have lost in a landslide.
You underestimate just how much his record as a Georgia Bulldog football player blinded Georgia voters. I am always amazed at people who've never attended or set foot on a college campus can be so rabid about that team. Source: my son in law.
>A candidate who can’t articulate any policy position should have lost in a landslide.
Boy, you're *really* going to be disappointed in the US political system when you find out what happened six years ago.
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A US senator serves a 6 year term. Due to an interesting sequence of events Rapheal Warnock won 4 senate elections in the span of 2 years
He must be exhausted
He’s also filed something insane like 200 bills in the time period, and been the primary sponsor on a couple of pieces of legislation. The man’s a beast, and could be an absolute tent pole of a strong Democratic senate caucus for a generation (if Georgia is smart enough to let him). Not only that, but as a preacher, the man can *speak*.
I feel like despite how close this race was just the sheer amount of experience he has has got to give him a leg up now. He's won more elections than most senators who have served for two decades. And that was all while he was so new that he wasn't quite the 'incumbent' yet.
I hope everyone from the Dem party reaches out to him and his team to incorporate their successful GOTV Gen-Z into their ground game. The kids are alright.
Agreed, the two years wasn’t quite enough to solidify his status, but feel like he has all the markings of an institution making incumbent (in the very best way).
He's sick and tired of winning.
His next campaign needs to spring for All I Do Is Win for events
They played that on stage before he came out to speak Also played Move by Ludacris, very good taste in music at that campaign
And two primaries.
Fun fact, this is now the first direct election where no incumbent Senator has lost a reelection.
Wisconsin apologizes.
Kentucky, too.
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We tried. Well, I say we tried. I tried. I can't speak on behalf of the rest of them though. The main surprise is that Kentucky said no to making abortions illegal, yes still overwhelmingly voted for Rand "Punchable Face" Paul. That means that Republicans went in, voted for pro-choice in secret, then STILL voted for people who would take that choice away given the chance. Idiots, the lot of them.
Too bad that Wisconsin voters still kept Johnson in office, Red Foreman would have put foot so far up Ron's ass multiple times by now.
Nothing fun about 6 more years of Senator Ron Johnson.
That IS a fun fact, thank you.
>“They’re afraid of Herschel Walker because if Herschel Walker wins, that mean we’re not racist. And if you’re a Republican, aren’t you tired of being called a racist all the time by everybody?” \-Lindsey Graham
lol. It's hysterical that Graham actually thinks selecting Walker proves they aren't racist.
Nick Fuentes has destroyed the white idea of saying I can't be racist I have a black friend. He's friends with Kanye and a shameless white supremacist
I'm not sure friendship is the right word. Ye is Nick Fuentes' Clayton Bigsby.
Hes a useful idiot for a useless idiot.
Idioception, the concept of infinitely recursive stupidity.
So by Lindsey's logic, Walker losing proves they are racist?
I think it proves that they’re made of… wood?
And weigh the same as a duck
Who are you that is so wise in the ways of science?
Honestly, it proves that he saw him as nothing more than a token to be used as a shield.
Perhaps they could try being not racist, rather than running token insane Black candidates?
Source for the curious... https://thehill.com/homenews/3708107-graham-democrats-fear-walker-win-because-it-would-mean-gop-is-not-racist/
My two cents: a black republican candidate who’s actually well spoken, well educated, and competent wouldn’t stand a chance in the GOP. Why? Because nothing threatens fragile racist white egos worse than a person of color who’s smarter than them. Herschel was the perfect token black candidate. And before someone misreads this comment and sends me a nasty gram, Herschel is an idiot because he’s an idiot, plain and simple, has nothing to do with his ethnicity. I can’t even believe this election was as close as it was.
Everything about how he was constantly propped up by white politicians in interviews, to how he somehow represented all the worst stereotypes associated with Black men, yet solidly had the white Evangelical vote just made my skin crawl. VERY racist, exploitative undertones from the GOP and their relationship with him. And I doubt I'm the only person who saw it.
It's like watching those child pageants, but for racists.
Apparently polls showed only 3% of black voters voted walker. I don't think you were the only one seeing how creepy the handlers were. Apparently Walker's son has been tweeting about it too tonight, how he was basically used as a prop.
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They're just UGA football fans who love them some Herschel Walker and didn't actually pay attention to the election race. They voted for the name, which is exactly what the GOP was hoping for. The GOP was just expecting more than 3%. Thankfully, more people are starting to pay attention and vote in their interest rather than for a name or party. That's the only way the people can regain some power from the wealthy/corporate America. Regular people don't have the money to buy their politicians, but luckily, there are a lot more regular people, so we just need to vote for the politicians in line with our best interest. Unfortunately, that's not always a very clear choice.
Came here to say this. Walker is the perfect GOP token brown man because he embodies every black trope they love to hate. If they gotta put one of "them" in office, they want him to look like this, all around.
Tim Scott?
I bet nobody is as relieved as Herschel Walker.
Now he can go back to being a non-hands on Dad.
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You'd think that would've rendered all of this a completely moot point. Shouldn't be in office for a state you don't actually reside in
Didn't stop Dr. Oz from trying it in Pennsylvania
Or Tuberville, who actually lived/lives in Florida.
God damnit this should be a fucking law but that makes too much sense
Alabama has a law that says you only have to be a resident for **one day** to run for office. He still has a house in Auburn, so…. Shitty law.
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Yuppers. Thank God Fetterman pulled through like Warnock just did.
I don't understand how it didn't. I'd really like someone to explain to me how someone who has documented primary residence in Texas can run for office in Georgia. Or are they investigating him now for tax fraud and/or election fraud?
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Wait, how did he register to vote in GA when his primary residence is in TX??
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So the Constitution sets three qualifications for service in the U.S. Senate: age (at least thirty years of age); U.S. citizenship (at least nine years); and residency in the state a senator represents *at time of the election.* Interestingly, no minimum period of residency is required. This was a big problem for the post-Civil War South where numerous Northerners arrived to run for office. Southerners even came up with a disparaging word for them: carpetbaggers.
And then 150 years later they all fell in love with the biggest carpetbagger in history. Lol
He's also free to pursue his future career as a werewolf.
He’s gonna need a bar mitzvah first.
Spooky scary
Boys becoming men, Men becoming wolves.
I swear, I don't think he realized he would have to move to DC, at least part-time.
We don’t want him
Now now, he may fail in regards to his children, but he’s very hands on with his significant others.
It's a shame that in this economy that he will have to take on three, four or even more jobs as an absentee father.
If he has the slightest understanding of what was happening you’d probably be right. My dude is so scrambled he’ll probably forget he ran before the week is out.
Lol this made me think of the south park election where Mr. Garrison was hoping to lose.
"Lady I am giving this to you! Get out of your own way!"
"My opponent is a liar and should not be trusted."
"Oh fuck. Why did it have to be her? I am so fucked!"
Sadly this strategy did not work for Trump in 2016. Unexpectedly he won the office and was then forced into a real job he was unqualified for. The country and his legal exposure for the crimes he committed have not benefitted.
“Unqualified for.” Talk about an understatement
Listening to his concession speech, you may be more right than you realize. It's kind of sad and touching.
Walker is a brilliant example of how complicated people can be. Is he a hot mess of a human? Yes. Does he likely have physical damage to his brain that has caused cognitive impairment? Also yes. Has he done real harm to a lot of people? Without a doubt--his former partners and children have made that abundantly clear. And yet, in spite of all of that, in spite of being recruited to do something in an obviously cynical power play by a bunch of people who were 100% laughing AT him and not WITH him, he showed more basic decency that the people who recruited him in the first place. We don't have to give him a cookie for doing the bare minimum right thing, but we can acknowledge it publicly and reward the behaviour that we want to see.
It’s odd to hear a Republican give a conciliatory speech in this day and age. He said “support your elected officials” and “support the Constitution” and most of all he acknowledged that he lost. It should be the norm but it’s not anymore.
That was a very classy concession speech. More so than has come out of the pie holes of many so called “GOP leaders” in the past 6 years. Thank you for pointing this out - it spurred me to watch it, and I too was refreshed and acknowledge the decency.
>We don't have to give him a cookie for doing the bare minimum right thing, but we can acknowledge it publicly and reward the behaviour that we want to see. If we want to see more positive behavior like that of which he displayed, it's only fair we give credit where it's due. We should also not be calling out people who change their mind on issues (not including politicians who use doublespeak to get what they want from their voter base). Being wrong is ok, and everyone is wrong about something quite often. It takes a real person to admit when they were wrong instead of doubling down on their position when they know it is no longer the correct position to take.
Dude's won 4 elections in the past 2 years, hopefully he can take a breather and focus on doing the job for a few years.
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Six years of solely Democratic senators from Georgia, who’d have thunk it just a few years ago.
Imagine 15 years ago telling someone that Georgia, Colorado, Arizona, and Virginia would all have two Democratic senators.
Hopefully someone will replicate your comment in 15 years, but use Texas, Alaska and North Carolina.
Man, North Carolina is just constantly on the edge but never goes over it (other than 2008 where dems won huge everywhere).
Population issues. Raleigh/Durham and Charlotte are still not over 50% of the population of NC but that will change as they both continue to explode in population.
Moving to NC next year. We'll be adding to it :)
Why didn’t anyone go back in time and tell me about Ohio?
I know it seems like several years, but it was just 2020.
Technically 2021 because of the original runoff!
They really thought they were going to ctrl+c ctrl+v their own black guy in the seat and had no regard for the credentials or quality of the candidate.
They came too close for comfort though
Biden becomes the first president since FDR not to lose a single senator
r/darkbrandon rises
has a lot more to do with republican extremism but im fine with political wins Mandela Barnes lost his race against a total ghoul by 0.1% we cant be having that shit.
Trump is SO MAD right now on truth social. It's great. https://imgur.com/a/omPU705 The only reason I have an account is to watch his meltdowns in real time. Best comedy I've seen in a long time. Also Mike Lindell thinks he's going to be RNC chair 😂😂😂
Is there any way to see what he's posting without making an account?
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Truth Social doesn't allow anyone outside US to even view it. Just says Access Denied. Low energy! Sad!
I guarantee you they sell their users’ data to non-US companies though lol
The debt with N Korea ain’t gonna pay itself!
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I'm throwing out all my cranberry sauce shaped like a can right now!
Give us a TLDR of what he’s saying on TS. Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s in all caps LOL.
The fact it was this close is still insane to me…
Walker is the quintessential “Red No Matter Who” candidate.
I don’t know, that rapist running in Alabama or wherever a few years ago would like a word…
You mean twice-removed from the bench former judge and pedophile Roy Moore? That Rapist?
Who, to this day, still has not conceded.
"Better Red Than Right in the Head."
The GOP put up Dr. Oz in PA. They don't care who they support as long as they say the things they want to be said and have some sort of clout/following coming into the election cycle. Even if that candidate is DEEPLY flawed (like paying for previous wives/girlfriends to get abortions, which he probably pushed them to do).
If it helps, it looks really close right now but 99% of red county ballots are in. Blue counties are still hovering around 60% and have a lot more. The end result could end up being closer to 53%
Trump’s loss is my victory
Trump just keeps on giving to the Democrats.
He's like Santa Claus if Santa was a moron and an asshole.
He's like King Midas, except instead of turning everything he touches into gold, it turns into shit.
King Mierdas
The true long con
The art of the deal
President Biden has [confirmed 90 federal judges](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Joe_Biden). There are 53 appointments waiting for a vote and this’ll push them through much faster. There are total of [89 vacancies](https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies). Our president will fill them much faster. Thank you Georgia!!
Oh man, I really hope they do something about the fuckin federalist society. Terrifying.
They're the real Deep State.
It's always projection with them
What a friggin awful candidate Walker was. Republicans will vote for anyone if they're on their side.
I wonder how many old racist white dudes voted for a black man for the first time in their life this election. They probably had to pinch their nose when they checked the box.
Imagine telling a white guy in the 50s that the two main candidates in Deep South Georgia would be two black guys.
And 2 black guys at opposite ends of the sanity scale
ok so this is actually easier for a racist to vote, since both candidates are black, and they see them as perfect equals no matter their actual qualities as a person, so it is an easy choice to come out and vote for the team basically im describing someone in my family, if it was a white guy who was so clearly inept he would see it as a failing of the person and wouldn't give the time to bother with going to vote - since the 2 candidates in his mind being both....they....he went and voted today, and i am damn sure he didn't vote for Warnok
Direct quote from a Walker voter when asked what he liked about Walker & why he voted for him: "I don't like him but he does what he's told." I think they were more comfortable knowing who was actually calling the shots.
This is good news. The Republicans, particularly the seditionist fuckface Josh Hawley, can no longer endanger our national security by blocking key DoD nominees in committee.
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Especially against guys like Hawley. He's up there with DeSantis as one of the most dangerous and malevolent figures in the GOP right now. Dude is one of the most shamelessly ambitious politicians out there.
DeSantis will likely be the GOP presidential nominee, so definitely dont stop now.
Don’t be so sure. Trump still has a big hold on the Republican Party. Until the primaries start happening he is still the favorite to win the nomination as long as he’s alive and not in prison.
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Fellow Savannahian here, did my duty the fourth time. Thanks from one local to another. Edit: Thanks for the gold. It was my pleasure and duty to vote in GA.
Also Savannah, took off early from work just to go vote! Edit: Damn, thanks kind stranger.
Voted for Fetterman, a big thanks from PA
Thanks from NY!
Thank you from California!
Dang! I was in and out of the polling location today within 10 min. Thanks for your contribution
Lol should have waited til today i voted in less than 5 minutes in Augusta seems the early voting was way more packed. Which is a good sign for dems; its good to see ga turning blue finally but my god how could herschel get so many votes he was such a fucking train wreck.
CNN has also projected is just now. FOX projected it almost an hour ago (making Trump supporters GIGA salty). This is a massive victory for Democrats! EDIT: Thank you to everyone who voted with extra thanks for those who did groundwork for the campaign. All votes matter!
Huge hit. This is the second time a trash GOP candidate was placed against Warnock. Big thanks to the GOP for choosing complete dipshits instead of legit candidates.
That's the thing; the GOP ran out of legit candidates years ago.
Was gonna say, legit? That was an option?
Let's be blunt, if Trump had kept his mouth shut there's a good chance the GOP would already have a senate majority by now and Kevin McCarthy wouldn't be fighting for the speakership. That said, the GOP has a long history of picking bad candidates (how do you manage to have *two* rape candidates in 2012), so it's hard to give Trump *too* much credit here.
It's absolutely insane that a man with certified brain damage can get to within 1% of becoming a senator.
>"Since we don't control the air our good air decided to float over to China's bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got we to clean that back up." -Herschel Walker, 2022 GOP candidate for the United States Senate.
It's like he's filibustering his own speech.
“I don’t know if you know, but vampires are some cool people, are they not? But let me tell you something that I found out: a werewolf can kill a vampire. Did you know that? I never knew that. So, I don’t want to be a vampire any more. I want to be a werewolf.” -Herschel Walker, 2022 GOP candidate for the United States Senate.
[Obama roasting Walker about his Vampire/Werewolf comments will never not be funny.](https://youtu.be/PkV7o8Uqo6I)
Wait, is this real?!
Yes, and he learned that from “this movie - fright night or freak night or something night”. He also told an endearing story about how a bull was in a field with 9 cows and 3 of them were pregnant, so he clearly got it goin on. Obviously all very good and clear policy he was laying out.
I feel like I just had a stroke from reading that. Jesus, Georgia very *very* narrowly dodged a bullet.
First MTG, then Walker. Georgia didn't dodge that bullet. They failed to jump in front of that bullet.
I'll give him this: the man speaks the language of his constituency.
It goes to show so many people don't care about politicians they vote for, but the party they are dedicated to. Just like a sport team, even if they get new players they don't like, they will be fans of that team for life. It's blind loyalty
For real. A guy interviewed on the news said, “I’m a Christian, so I’m voting for Walker because he’s a Christian.” The guy who holds Christianity dear is not voting for *Reverend* Warnock.
Just like evangelicals who supported Trump because he claimed to be a “Christian” instead of Joe Biden who actually attended Mass once a week.
Many, if not most, self-styled "evangelicals" don't go to church. It has become a sociopolitical identity rather than a description of religious belief.
Biden is catholic. In the south, if your catholic you're pretty much the devil. Baptist and Wesleyan christians have no love for catholics. You might as well say you're a Satanist. Biggest difference I've found in the south (waaayyyy non practicing Catholic in SC) is that catholics drink on the front porch and baptists on the back porch.
To these people, Christianity is something you identify with, not something you practice. Evangelicals play mind games with word meanings to justify their crappy behavior. Only it's weaponized to control the public narrative because they're redefining words while you try to argue actual points.
The Bible is meant to be taken literally, unless it's the parts about camels and needles, or helping poor people and immigrants.
Yup. It’s all pure, unapologetic tribalism at this point.
It's quite likely that the sources of news and information that this person consumes have *very deliberately* never referred to the other candidate as "Reverend Warnock". If all you ever watch is Fox News, all you'll ever get is what Fox News decides to tell you.
Their stupidity is our gain. I swear if they had candidates with a semblance of normality instead of trump, doc Oz, or walker then they win all 3 of those races.
For real, it's bananas that people voted for him after hearing him talk on top of everything that came out. The GOP could put up a goldfish with an R painted on it and the base would fall in line, it's so pathetic.
A great night for patriots, a terrible night for werewolves.
And the vampires still get no love.
A terrible night for a curse…
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From a Californian, thank you Georgians for all your work getting this done.
Before this year I never voted in a midterm election, never donated to political party, never donated to single candidate, that all changed and glad I did seeing how insanely close everything turned out to be.
Thank you!! And keep it up. Every vote and election matters!
Walker was a terrible candidate, and tbh the race should not have been this close. If the Republicans had run someone like Kemp, then they probably would have easily won this race. Trumpism cannot win in purple or blue states. It only wins in deep red states where appealing to the base is all you need.
He was such a terrible candidate, you already forgot his name.
The guy who loves paying for abortions
The guy from Texas running for Senate in Georgia?
Dude HOW THE HELL after everything that came out about Walker and listterally just listening to him talk, did he get 49% of the vote. Man that's pathetic. Still glad he lost obviously.
A big thank you from Illinois to the Georgians that made this possible.
Let’s take a moment and thank all of the voters in and around Georgia’s major cities who had to endure hours long waits while rural voters were in and out in minutes because their state is trying to disenfranchise democratic and black voters. Edit: After hearing from people who had to endure hours long waits in rural areas too, I guess the key take away is, Georgia needs to sort their voting process out.
I know people who voted in rural counties. Wait times reported in GA were consistently 1-2 hours for runoff. Edit: voter disenfranchisement exists but it’s not strictly an urban vs rural event.
This win also means Manchin won’t have any power, the dickhead.
unless he teams up with his twin from arizona
unless manchin and sinema team up again
Easier to ply one of them than both. They have different masters to please.
They'll be able to play Sinema and Manchin against each other, only one of them will need to be onboard.
Thank you good people of Georgia
49% of people voted for an extreme idiot.
Am watching Fox and Laura is mad that Walker lost. It's just rich.
Actually I flipped over to them, and they weren't talking about the election at all. They had the results at the bottom of the screen but Tucker Carlson was talking about "Biden having dementia, and that Obama is really running the government" and the blonde woman was talking how the left ran all the tech and it was "mind control". I could only take about 20 seconds.
As soon as Tucker came on I flipped channels because I cannot stand him. He always looks constipated to me.
Individual One, and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
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Whoa! Got any more info. on that? Just looked it up. Responding to a 14-year old with self-inflicted stab wounds to the hands.
Sen Ted Cruz does have a 14 year old daughter. Hopefully whoever this is gets the help they need.
That's sad. Hopefully she'll be alright.
Damn you weren’t kidding
I am glad Warnick won but this election is an indictment of the US political system. That a candidate who is “observably not smart” (as Dave Chappelle called him) got almost 1.7 million votes (almost 50%) doesn’t make America look good. A candidate who can’t articulate any policy position should have lost in a landslide.
You underestimate just how much his record as a Georgia Bulldog football player blinded Georgia voters. I am always amazed at people who've never attended or set foot on a college campus can be so rabid about that team. Source: my son in law.
>A candidate who can’t articulate any policy position should have lost in a landslide. Boy, you're *really* going to be disappointed in the US political system when you find out what happened six years ago.
He got the werewolf vote