The same poll found just 33% of voters would support a federal abortion ban, though just 59% of voters said abortion would be “very important” to their vote in the midterms, compared to 84% who said the same of the economy and 80% who said inflation would be “very important.”Īmong voters who described the economy as “very important” to their vote, Walker has a 56% to 44% edge, while Warnock has a 67% to 32% edge among voters who say abortion is “very important.”īut the poll also contains some indications new revelations about the GOP candidate could have a limited impact, since voters already hold comparatively low opinions of him. A CBS News/YouGov poll from mid-September, for instance, found Warnock earning 51% of the vote to Walker’s 49%. Recent polls of the race have been close. The Republican’s stated position - he opposes abortion in all instances, with no exceptions for rape or the life of the mother and would support a national ban - is already sufficiently unpopular that it might not require “dressing up,” in the words of one Democrat. Some were wary of elevating the younger Walker, who broadly holds right-wing views and regularly expresses them on TikTok and on his podcast.ĭemocrats were also unsure of how frequently they would mention the elder Walker’s apparent hypocrisy on abortion rights. On Tuesday, Democratic strategists were debating whether to directly take video from Christian Walker’s post and put them into television or digital ads. “If they’re going to use family members to defend themselves, we can use family members to attack them,” said one Democratic strategist who requested anonymity to discuss party strategy. In 2022, four different GOP Senate candidates have aired ads featuring their wives discussing their character as the party tries to finesse the unpopularity of its stances on abortion rights. In 2018, they pointed to children, wives and aunts with preexisting conditions as evidence they would not strip away health care protections. The younger Walker’s videos essentially serve as the reverse of a strategy Republicans have leaned on in recent years of calling in their family members as character witnesses. “You don’t get to pretend you’re some moral family man.”
“Don’t lie about your life at the expense of me and my mom,” he says in another. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. The two major entities supporting Herschel Walker’s campaign - the National Republican Senatorial Committee and a super PAC controlled by allies of Mitch McConnell - quickly signaled they would stand by him on Tuesday night. Georgia is almost certain to remain central to the battle for control of the 50-50 Senate. Raphael Warnock, with both parties planning to conduct polling and collect data over the next several days. It’s far too early to assess the overall electoral impact in his race against Democratic Sen. He has not directly responded to his son’s comments, only writing on Twitter: “I LOVE my son no matter what.” The elder Walker has denied paying for the abortion and has threatened to sue The Daily Beast. “You’re not a ‘family man’ when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence.” “I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us,” Christian Walker wrote on Twitter on Monday night not long after the story published. It’s the fact that Walker’s son, a conservative influencer named Christian, reacted to the story by backing up what Democrats had already been saying about his dad. Those ads are why, based on conversations with Democratic and Republican operatives working on Georgia’s Senate race, the potential political game-changer from the past 24 hours is not the revelation, reported by The Daily Beast, that Walker paid a woman he was dating to have an abortion.
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