{"id":522542,"date":"2022-12-07T07:12:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T04:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/five-takeaways-from-the-georgia-senate-runoff\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T07:12:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T04:12:41","slug":"five-takeaways-from-the-georgia-senate-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-the-georgia-senate-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"#Five takeaways from the Georgia Senate runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2933b55ee71\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2933b55ee71\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-the-georgia-senate-runoff\/#Five_takeaways_from_the_Georgia_Senate_runoff\" >Five takeaways from the Georgia Senate runoff<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-the-georgia-senate-runoff\/#Dems_get_breathing_room_in_the_Senate\" >Dems get breathing room in the Senate<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-the-georgia-senate-runoff\/#Trump_dealt_another_blow\" >Trump dealt another blow<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-the-georgia-senate-runoff\/#Warnock_delivered_on_expectations\" >Warnock delivered on expectations<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-the-georgia-senate-runoff\/#Turnout_remained_high\" >Turnout remained high\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-the-georgia-senate-runoff\/#All_eyes_now_shift_to_2024\" >All eyes now shift to 2024\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Five_takeaways_from_the_Georgia_Senate_runoff\"><\/span>Five takeaways from the Georgia Senate runoff<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/WarnockRaphael_electionnight.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sen. Raphael Warnock\u2019s (D) victory over Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia\u2019s Senate runoff Tuesday night wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed up the 2022 midterm election season and set the stage for the 2024 presidential election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat\u2019s victory also gives his party more leverage with their majority in the Senate and signifies yet another midterm loss for a candidate endorsed by former President Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Here are five takeaways from Georgia\u2019s Senate runoff.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dems_get_breathing_room_in_the_Senate\"><\/span><strong>Dems get breathing room in the Senate<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>While Warnock\u2019s win does not dramatically alter the balance of power in the upper chamber, it does give Democrats some much-needed leverage with a 51-seat majority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Democrats and Republicans are tied 50-50 in the Senate. Vice President Kamala Harris serves as the breaking vote for Democrats, but there is a power-sharing agreement that evenly splits the committees. With a 51-seat majority, Democrats will hold majorities on those committees. Crucially, that dynamic will allow the party to quickly confirm President Biden\u2019s judicial and executive branch nominees over the next two years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats will also be able to more easily conduct oversight investigations that Republicans disagree with. This could prove handy for Senate Democrats as House Republicans gear up to launch a host of oversight investigations in the lower chamber.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And a Warnock vote could help offset the impact from more centrist Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), who have sometimes gone against key legislative priorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Trump_dealt_another_blow\"><\/span><strong>Trump dealt another blow<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Walker\u2019s loss marks another blow to Trump as he wages another campaign for the White House.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The former president saw many of his high-profile endorsed candidates lose this midterm cycle, putting a dent in his once-formidable reputation among Republicans. Walker\u2019s loss will be especially bruising to Trump, who pushed for the former NFL star to jump into the race and appeared with him on the campaign trail in the run-up to Election Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump was noticeably absent from the campaign trail over the past month in a sign of his damaged brand following the loss of other endorsed Senate candidates like Blake Masters and Mehmet Oz. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s impact on the two 2021 Senate runoffs in Georgia, which handed Democrats the majority in the upper chamber, has continued to haunt Peach State Republicans. The former president was largely blamed for the losses due to his touting of unfounded claims that the 2020 election was rigged, which likely drove down GOP turnout. Warnock seized on Trump\u2019s endorsement of Walker, rolling out a campaign ad tying the two to each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Walker\u2019s loss is just the latest bad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> for Trump over the past week. He has also been grappling with backlash over his meeting with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and the\u00a0rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, at Mar-a-Lago last month. Trump has also gotten blowback for saying he would like to terminate parts of the Constitution in the wake of revelations about <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u2019s handling of a controversial story about Hunter Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Warnock_delivered_on_expectations\"><\/span><strong>Warnock delivered on expectations<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>While the full results were still coming in when multiple networks called the race for Warnock, the Democratic senator appeared to meet expectations with his win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Polls showed a close race in the days leading up to the runoff, but consistently favored the Democrat. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>An\u00a0Emerson College\/The Hill\u00a0poll released last week showed Walker leading Warnock 49 percent to 47 percent. Democrats for their party were largely expressing optimism in the final days of the runoff campaign, citing Walker\u2019s weakness as a candidate. The party also pointed to Warnock\u2019s past successes, including his 2020 runoff win in which he received more votes than Walker this Election Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night largely validated their optimism. While the race remained close throughout the night, Warnock consistently performed well in the areas he needed to in order to win, and even appeared to flip one county, Baldwin, that went for Walker in November. His Republican opponent, meanwhile, slightly underperformed in many counties he carried last month.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Turnout_remained_high\"><\/span><strong>Turnout remained high\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Turnout was high across the board, with both candidates getting voters out early and on Election Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Georgia\u2019s secretary of state\u2019s office, over a million ballots had been cast on Tuesday by the middle afternoon, bringing the total number of ballots cast in the runoff to more than 2.89 million voters. The turnout was lower than the Election Day turnout last month, but it did surpass past Georgia runoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warnock benefitted from the early vote and mail-in turnout, which tend to favor Democrats. Walker was largely dependent on in-person turnout on Election Day, which tends to favor Republicans. In the end, solid turnout in blue urban areas and lower-than-expected turnout in a number of red counties worked against Walker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"All_eyes_now_shift_to_2024\"><\/span><strong>All eyes now shift to 2024\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>With the last midterm contest of 2022 in the rearview mirror, attention will turn to the 2024 presidential election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republicans mulling a 2024 bid will likely use Walker\u2019s loss, along with other Trump-endorsed candidates\u2019 defeats, against the former president. The GOP will also likely look to recalibrate its strategy when it comes to early and mail-in voting, as well as candidate recruitment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was reflected in comments from one close ally of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who called for introspection in the party following Walker\u2019s defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRs need honest evaluation of party\u2019s problems,\u201d Josh Holmes said on Twitter. \u201cNot taking points that rile up loud voices. Nothing is unfixable but this is not a winning product from an infrastructure standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Democrats, including Biden, have expressed newfound optimism going into 2024. The party  largely defied midterm expectations, tempering its losses in the House and growing its majority in the Senate. Democrats credit Biden\u2019s message during the midterms, but others argue that GOP candidate quality played a role in sinking Republicans and boosting Democrats.\u00a0\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Raphael Warnock\u2019s (D) victory over Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia\u2019s Senate runoff Tuesday night wrapped up the 2022 midterm election season and set the stage for the 2024 presidential election.\u00a0 The Democrat\u2019s victory also gives his party more leverage with their majority in the Senate and signifies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":522543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/WarnockRaphael_electionnight.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134343,134418,134353,73798,4941,134447,135580,80445,134377,41445,83144,70289],"class_list":["post-522542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-campaign","tag-congress-blog","tag-court-battles","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy-and-environment","tag-georgia-senate-runoff","tag-healthcare","tag-herschel-walker","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-raphael-warnock","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}