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Election Day 2022: Eyes are on races for Senate, governor in Georgia

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Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker campaigned across the state for Senate while Stacey Abrams and incumbent Brian Kemp face off for governor.
ATLANTA — Georgia’s senate race between Sen. Raphael Warnock, who is trying to win a full six-year term, and Georgia football icon and Republican challenger Herschel Walker could determine the outcome of the Senate party breakdown.
Georgia has seen historic early voting numbers as FiveThirtyEight’s polling shows the race between Walker and Warnock is the tightest Senate race in the country.
Meanwhile, for governor, incumbent Republican Governor Brian Kemp is trying to fend off a repeated challenge from Democrat Stacey Abrams, who lost to Kemp narrowly in 2018.
Here’s a breakdown of these key races in Georgia:
Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia is intensifying his critique of Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker ahead of Election Day to say the celebrity athlete is fundamentally unfit for Capitol Hill.
Warnock’s shift comes after avoiding direct attacks on Walker and instead trying to pitch his work on Capitol Hill as bipartisan and good for all Georgians.
From a rally with former President Barack Obama to a statewide bus tour that runs through the eve of Election Day on Tuesday, Warnock has hammered Walker as a „pathological liar“ who has exaggerated his business, academic, professional and philanthropic achievements and been accused of violence against his family members and of paying for girlfriends‘ abortions despite his public opposition to the procedure.

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