herschel locker. so that was the other question, these big republican vote producing counties. we talk tonight about cherokee county, this is the biggest republican 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 kept me in november, this is what kemp was getting out of cherokee county. he was getting 74% of the vote. walker still couldn t even get, 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.
finish, it looks, like above where he finished in november. if you place where he finished in this was a huge one for him. gwinnett county, one of the biggest growing counties in the state, again, right outside of atlanta, he finished just under 59% in november tonight, he is just over 62%. this was a great number for warnock back in november, this was an even better number for him tonight. so, in these core democratic areas, he didn t just to the numbers he needed, he exceeded them. so this was one problem for walker right away, he needed warnock to underperform the core atlanta metro area, that didn t happen. the other thing that walker was counting on was again, if you look back at that november general election, in georgia if you took the senate race out of it, it was a good night for republicans in georgia back in november. brian kemp got reelected, brad raffensperger got reelected, they won statewide elections. the one who is lagging behind all the other republicans was herschel
walker, totally different. an almost 2-1 margin voters in november said walker does not show good judgment and you break that down by party, voters who said walker does not show good judgment, it s almost all democrats, but it s nearly 30% of republicans and almost three our four independent voters. so that was what created the lag between walker and kemp and walker and the other republicans running statewide in georgia. are those republican voters, the voters who re-elected kemp easily, are they showing up tomorrow? are they staying home? if they show up, are they going to cast a ballot maybe reluctantly? for walker that they aren t willing to cast in november? some of the places we re going to be looking at here are sort of in the outer, atlanta metro area here. core republican areas. big republican vote producing counties where walker, look, walker did well in forsythe county.