night. herschel walker meanwhile fell from 38.6 to 37.9. the kinds of differences that make all the difference in an election like this and you saw it throughout the atlanta metro area. take a look at cobb county. another biggy. warnock s campaigned thrilled with 56.8 they got in november. built that nearly three points to 59.5% last night. so in one county after another in the immediate atlanta metro area, warnock actually met his november number and then built on it and walker in most cases actually slid back a little from what he got. that s the single biggest ingredient and if you zoom out, the bigger picture on this. in terms of georgia. why we now talk about georgia as a competitive state politically. joe biden carrying it in 2020. we expect it to very much be on the map of competitive states in 2024. has everything to do with this atlanta metro area. so striking to me. wept back in time 10, 20 years say 2004 presidential campaign when george w. bush was
re-elected over john kerry. this a red county, this a red county, this a red county, this red and this would have been red. three blue counties in the atlanta metro area. george w. bush winning some of these counties by 25, 30, 35 points. they have now swung all the way around where warnock s winning them last night by 20, 25, 30 points. massive population growth in migrations, counties are bigger, massively bluer. it s the biggest snell reason why warnock wins last night and georgia s a competitive state and the second biggest reason is get outside this immediate atlanta metro area, still have biggies. sort of in the excerpt, far suburbs of atlanta. not bigger than cherokee county, 45 minutes north of atlanta. the biggest single republican vote-producing county in georgia. one of the biggest republican vote-producing counies of any county in the united states of america.
votes producing county in the state. you can see that walker wins it, he doesn t do that much better than he did in november and this is what camp brian kemp and walker could not even he barely got a 69% tonight, he needed to be in the 70s in cherokee county. he needed bigger numbers and the big republican counties that are just outside of the atlanta metro area. so he had some good numbers and the rural areas, but the bottom line is in the big republican counties he didn t improve enough, and then the core democratic areas he did not contain warnock s strength, and warnock wins the race. not enough offense and not enough defense. i think we can go live right now to herschel walker s campaign headquarters where he is speaking. he is just wrapping up. did mr. walker concede? we go live to this right now, he looks confused. herschel walker just
supreme court ruled that these redrawn maps were unconstitutional. state republicans are asking for that unchecked power to change election law. explain the implications of that kind of power. they are radical and far-reaching. it means unlike every other area where state legislatures have to act consistent with the law and the constitution, it would just be by raw political fiat. they would be completely unencumbered, do whatever they want and say, no, we think the imagine this in the context of the 2020 election. the state legislature could go by majority rule and say, we re going to do new electors, they re going to be for trump. we re not going to do this kind of law, et cetera. it s only as julia points out, there s this word that says the legislature can direct how electors are appointed, but that, like every other action of
this having a 51 majority, you re going to see in the committee structure where the work gets done an edge for democrats. this translates into easier to get judges and political atoinpoint tees. something that was difficult in the first two years. and also not having to hold your breath every of time there s a tight vote and looking toman joe manchin and cincinnati cincinnati. it gives more breathing room in terms of the very close votes. so where did thing gos wrong for walker? a couple places. one, you look in the immediate atlanta metro area. this is the core of where the population is. this is the core of where the democratic strebt is in georgia. it s the core of where warnock s strength was in the november general election that proceeded this runoff. warnock finished ahead of walker in november ask he was just a