r last night // (Scott Johnson)
This is a follow-up to my November 9 “After last evening” on this years midterms.
Raphael Warnock, a Georgia senator, won reelection last night. This was a fitting conclusion to the disappointing 2022 midterm elections. He won 51.4 percent of the vote against Herschel Walker to win a full six year term. Walker was just 100,000 votes short of the 3.5 million votes cast.
* Republicans won every state office except for the Senate seat. Governor Brian Kemp was the leader. Georgia is not a blue State. If it comes to a Republican path towards electoral success, however I’ll have what Kemp has, if I understand what I mean. Even so, Kemp’s organization was unable to pull Walker across the finish line in this contest.
* Warnock raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Walker was vastly outspent. The race cost at least $400 million. Walker raised twice the money from Warnock during the runoff. While Warnock raised $51.9 million, Walker raised $20.8 million. Walker was attacked in a series of advertisements supporting Warnock.
* In victory Warnock declared that “I am Georgia.” I am an example and an iteration its history. I will give him “the brutality.”
* Republicans did not have any chance of securing a majority for the Senate after November 8. They could at best maintain the status quo. They would be a minority of 49-51. This is where they are today. It’s not a great place to be.
* These are the first midterm elections in which the president’s party did not lose one of the incumbent Senate seats since 1934. Despite appearances to the contrary, Slow Joe is a political dynamo.
* Joe Manchin is not the man. On the other, he is up to reelection in 2024 because Democrats face a more hostile map. We can look forward one way or the other to his departure.
* A star is born according to the left-wing media. Warnock for president Warnock is a ridiculous, America-hating figure with the gift for gab. He’s a Jeremiah Wright type of guy. The time has come for the man. Warnock is laughing at his Ossoff.
* Walker’s career as an elective politician reminds me of Walker’s 1989 trade with the Minnesota Vikings. It didn’t go well for the Vikings. It was a terrible experience that lasted a long time.
