Poll: Herschel Walker Has 5-Point Lead Over Warnock In Georgia U.S. Senate Race

By Steve Wilson (The Middle Sq.)

A brand new ballot by Rasmussen Studies offers Republican challenger Herschel Walker a 5-point lead over Georgia Democratic U.S. Sen. Rafael Warnock of their race, considered one of a number of pivotal to regulate of the U.S. Senate.

The important thing demographic for Walker is unbiased voters, which he leads Warnock by a 14-point margin, 49% to 35%. And this regardless of Warnock’s three {dollars} to each greenback the previous Heisman Trophy winner’s marketing campaign has raised.

The identical ballot of 1,053 of doubtless Georgia voters presents extra excellent news for Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. His lead is 51% to 41% over Democratic challenger Stacy Abrams. Like with Walker, unaffiliated voters are breaking in an enormous approach, 49% to 32%, for the incumbent.

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On a generic poll query for Congress, 49% of respondents mentioned they’d vote for Republicans whereas 39% mentioned they’d vote for a Democrat. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, carried the state over Republican former President Donald Trump by the slimmest of margins, 49.5% to 49.3%, in 2020; in 2016, Trump rolled previous Democrat Hillary Clinton 50.8% to 45.6%.

Rasmussen’s ballot was carried out Sunday and Monday. The margin of error is 3 proportion factors and degree of confidence 95%.

The Rasmussen ballot reveals a race that’s transferring towards Walker after being thought-about a useless warmth per week earlier than.

In line with an aggregation of polls on RealClearPolitics, Warnock leads the race by 2 proportion factors within the Insider Benefit and East Carolina College polls, however Walker leads within the Rasmussen and DW/Trafalgar polls.

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Walker is much behind in money disparity. In line with knowledge from the Federal Election Fee from Sept. 30, Warnock has raised greater than $111 million, whereas Walker has raised greater than $37 million as of Oct. 19. For these preserving rating at residence, Walker has raised 33.3% as a lot because the first-term Democratic senator.

That mirrors Warnock’s $125 million haul in 2020, when he outpaced then-U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who raised greater than $92 million.

Warnock then beat Loeffler by 93,000 votes in a Jan. 5, 2021 runoff.

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