{"id":28222,"date":"2022-12-06T15:11:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=28222"},"modified":"2022-12-06T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:11:18","slug":"georgia-voters-head-to-polls-senate-runoff-between-warnock-and-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/12\/06\/georgia-voters-head-to-polls-senate-runoff-between-warnock-and-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia voters head to polls :Senate runoff between Warnock and Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It\u2019s election day in Georgia, and both Democratic senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker have brought out some of the biggest names in the state to campaign for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atlanta hip-hop institution <strong>Jermaine Dupri<\/strong> is in Warnock\u2019s corner, as he makes clear in this video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Listen to my good friend <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jermainedupri?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jermainedupri<\/a> and let&#39;s bring this home. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UirKSl6NqM\">pic.twitter.com\/UirKSl6NqM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ReverendWarnock\/status\/1600125999462510592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walker, meanwhile, has the support of the state\u2019s Republican governor, <strong>Brian Kemp<\/strong>, who just won re-election himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GO VOTE!! Let\u2019s send someone to Washington D.C. who will fight for hardworking Georgians! <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HerschelWalker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HerschelWalker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vdltqq9cAc\">pic.twitter.com\/vdltqq9cAc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrianKempGA\/status\/1600119659910467584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A note about Kemp: he\u2019s famous for defying <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s attempts to meddle in the 2020 election results in the state, while Walker was endorsed by the former president, but whatever tension might exist there hasn\u2019t prevented the governor from endorsing his Republican counterpart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump is all in for Walker, writing on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\">his Truth social account<\/a>, \u201cVOTE TODAY FOR HERSCHEL, he will never let you down!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> returned to the state last week to make a closing argument in favor of Warnock:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Georgia \u2014 vote for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ReverendWarnock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ReverendWarnock<\/a>! <br><br>Make a plan to vote today at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SRPhjFLzGA\">https:\/\/t.co\/SRPhjFLzGA<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n1bIxQWC02\">pic.twitter.com\/n1bIxQWC02<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama\/status\/1598812346813542400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s election day in Georgia, and both Democratic senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker have brought out some of the biggest names in the state to campaign for them. Atlanta hip-hop institution Jermaine Dupri is in Warnock\u2019s corner, as he makes clear in this video: Walker, meanwhile, has the support of the state\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[6202,160,10387,913,911,8484,8865,8867,6025,3805,8866,6944,13301,8501,6082,8122,146,5350,8033,3954,594],"class_list":["post-28222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-atlanta","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-democratic","tag-election","tag-georgia","tag-herschel-walker","tag-jermaine-dupri","tag-obama","tag-president","tag-raphael-warnock","tag-republican","tag-results","tag-senate","tag-senator","tag-tension","tag-truth","tag-twitter","tag-video","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}