Hysman trophy winner and Republican nominee for the US Senate Herschel Walker spoke to supporters of former US President Donald Trump during a rally in Banks Drague County on March 26, 2022 in Commerce, Georgia.
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Herschel Walker, a former professional footballer and businessman approved by former President Donald Trump, will win the primary race in the Senate of the Republic of Georgia, NBC News predicts on Tuesday.
Walker will face incumbent Democrat Senator Rafael Warnock in the November general election, according to NBC. Warnock took office last year after winning special elections.
The outcome of the race could upset the balance of power in Washington, where Democrats have a majority in the Senate. The House is divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, and Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris is holding the deciding vote.
Early studies of the Walker-Warnock hypothetical match show that the candidates are virtually tied, according to RealClearPolitics.
The primary race in Georgia, a rocking state that has a small vote for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, is also the biggest test to date of Trump’s lasting influence on the Republican Party.
Trump highlighted the fact that most of the candidates he backed in the 2022 election cycle won the primary, although many of those contests were not competitive. Fifteen months after his only term in the White House, the former president retained his status as the de facto leader of the Republican Party.
Many Republican candidates in the primary have tried to turn to the party base by elevating their pro-Trump powers, even if the former president does not support them. The Republican Party’s hopes have in many cases sought Trump’s favor by accepting the lie that the election was stolen, raising the prospect that a wave of candidates spreading election conspiracies could take on federal and state posts next year.
The by-elections will set the table for midterm elections in November, when Republicans hope to gain majority control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Democrats are fighting up: the president’s party tends to perform less in the by-elections, and the by-elections were marked in part by high inflation and low approval ratings for Biden.
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