This is what winning looks like
While Raphael Warnock successfully defeated Herschel Walker a second time in the Dec 6 runoff on Tuesday, there’s a whole lot of the usual suspects on social media lamenting about how the contest shouldn’t have even been close. While the candidates are worlds apart in terms of quality – and the GOP probably couldn’t have found someone worse than Walker to run against one of the most promising new talents in the Senate, this race was always going to be close – as Palmer Report warned you repeatedly.
If you’re wondering why, bear in mind that the GOP’s goals are pretty much the same as they’ve been for the last five decades – so it almost doesn’t matter who picks up their ridiculous talking points – a sizable number of Republicans will still come out and vote for whoever it is. What mattered is that Democrats turned out in unprecedented numbers to keep someone like Walker out of the Senate – and they defeated him by over 100,000 votes – nearly ten times the amount of votes that President Biden beat Donald Trump by back in 2020 when he won the state.
It’s also the fourth federal election in a row that Democrats have won in Georgia in the past two years – which means that support for effective politicians like Warnock is liable to keep growing in the near future and his ceiling will grow. Republicans will keep spending campaign money in the state, however, so it will likely be competitive for some time – but that’s why you need to ask yourself: Would you rather win by single digits or lose by single digits? The answer should be obvious.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making