so tell us what s happening in the georgia senate race. look, look how close this is. this is the forecast for the georgia senate race. herschel walker with 49%, raphael warnock with 49%. normally, we don t include libertarian candidates but i have here chase all of our at 2%. why? because the rules in georgia basically stipulate that if the leading candidate does not, in fact, get a majority of the vote on election day november their will in fact be a runoff come december. and right now the forecast suggests that neither herschel walker nor raphael warnock will reach a majority of the vote. i just want to point out how important georgia is in terms of winning control of the united states senate. if herschel walker wins, the democrats chance of retaining control of the senate is just 26%. if raphael warnock winds, look at that, it jumps up to 76%. so, whoever wins georgia has a pretty good job of controlling the senate overall. and here is the only other thing i will sort o
battleground georgia. and cnn senior data reporter harry hinton is here with us. he is awake. he is alive. he is at the magic wall. he is fired up and ready to go, as we can see. harry, we love having you here. tell us what is happening in the georgia senate race. look. look how close this is. herschel walker with 49%. raphael warnock with 49%. normally went we don t include libertarian candidates. but i have chase oliver at 2%. why? because the rules in georgia basically stipulate that if the leading candidate does not get a majority of the vote on election day in november, there in fact will be a runoff come december. and right now the forecast suggests that neither herschel walker nor raphael warnock will reach that majority of the vote. but i just want to point out how important georgia is in terms of winning control of the united states senate. if herschel walker wins the democrats chance of controlling the senate 26%. if raphael warnock wins, it jumps up to 6%. whoeve
issue for both parties to actually solve it. there is not a reason we cannot solve our immigration problems. but closed borders and kids in cages? that is not a policy solution. nor are sanctuary cities. that s not a policy solution either. and instead, both sides really, i think, use immigration to fearmonger, make people afraid, and it keeps these problems what we saw is heartbreaking. you can t assault border cops? and it s assault fleeing awful circumstances and being thrown back into mexico. this is heartbreaking all around. and i hear what you are saying about it being a very handy bogeyman for election years, for sure. but how does it benefit to democrats? because then they get to say the republicans are going to jail migrants, send them home, all things republicans have done. but listen, the back and forth, it s very much, to me, like the
democrats don t care about the border, vice president kamala harris, who was tasked with it, republicans paint her as being sort of asleep at the switch. what s gone wrong here? i think that immigration has become too valuable a wedge issue for both parties to actually solve it. there is not a reason we can t solve our immigration problems. but look, closed borders and kids in cages? that s not a policy solution, nor are sanctuary cities. that s not a policy solution either. instead both sides really use immigration to fearmonger, make people afraid, and it keeps the problems. what we saw is heartbreaking. you can t assault border cops? and it s heartbreaking that these people are fleeing awful circumstances and being thrown back into mexico. this is heartbreaking all around. i m not sure i hear what you re saying about it being a very handy bogeyman for election years for sure. but how does it benefit democrats?