December 9, 2022 12:58 pm

Voters Wanted GOP Control of the Senate but Rejected Kooky GOP Candidates

One of the most accurate pollsters of 2022 found voters in key battlegrounds would have preferred GOP control of the upper chamber.

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Georgia Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Herschel Walker, joined by Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, rallies with supporters at a campaign stop in Hiram, Ga., November 6, 2022.

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The effort to blame GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s loss on the Republican Party’s supposed inability to master the mechanics of voting and elections simply doesn’t pass the laugh test.

While Walker lost the runoff election this week to Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock by three percentage points, Georgia Republican governor Brian Kemp defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams just a month ago by 7.5 points.

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John McCormack

John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.

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The effort to blame GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s loss on the Republican Party’s supposed inability to master the mechanics of voting and elections simply doesn’t pass the laugh test.