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
something that if the republicans were there, that they would be able to snap their fingers and fix. i think the point you re probably going to make too, the point of the midterms or the point of talking points is to be reductive. the idea to condense and synthesize in a way that is evoking an evisceral reaction. yeah. and that s part of what is happening. the midterms are a test for the party in power. a and the democrats by the thinnest of margins are the party in power through a global pandemic that has driven malaise and major entrenched economic problems. and all of those right now were overpowering what democrats were hoping could be a debate about women s rights or reproductive rights or democracy or any of these other things. every time you fill up the gas pump, you re faced with the implications of this. every time you pay your grocery bills, you re faced with the implications of this. and whether or not it s democrats fault or whether or not it would have happened to
go beyond recreational use to addiction. it s not an easy thing. my wife and i have been engaged in all sorts of ways to try to help people understand this and it s based on this personal experience, i can tell you it s not easy. reporter: how do you think going through that and weathering it with your wife, how does that make you a better presidential candidate and potentially a better president? look, your life experience shapes how you lead, who you are. i can walk into a crowd and if the subject comes up which it does all the time here about drug addiction, i can look at people s faces and know whether they have gone through the struggle themselves or with a loved one, because it just you can just sense, you know, the life coming out of their face and even talking about it now, it hurts. there s sort of a deep reporter: visceral reaction.