times wrote. georgia with its storied history booming suburbs like march yet ta, is now officially contested ground, joining a narrow set of states that will select the next president. before yesterday t did seem like an open question whether georgia would be a true battleground going forward. how would you answer that question and how do the folks you re talking to in georgia answer that question? reporter: there s a reality among republicans. if you look at kolb county, which is that county around march yet ta, just a decade ago, mitt romney won yesterday. in the struggle the issue for republicans is the points in which voters trends become more than a trend but become consistent. and now for multiple election cycles in a row, georgia republicans and conservative independents have shown a
georgia because it s now competitive. essentially it siphoned money away from places like michigan and pennsylvania and nevada and arizona. it may soom like ancient history now, but donald trump won georgia deceasively in 2016. but ever since then, georgia has been losing political playing ground for him. you have voters rejecting his midterm candidates. you have his former friends and allies testifying about donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. so in many ways, donald trump needed herschel walker to win last night to reset the narrative that he s a drag on the republican party. that didn t happen. it s still too early to write off donald trump as the leader of the republican party. he has a magnetic grip on the grass roots.
confirm cabinet appointments. but also what could end up happening in this new senate is really empower committees in a way that they are unable to be empowered right now because all the committees are 50/50. that means giving democrat subpoena power to look into investigations on a number of levels that they don t currently have the ability to do. so there s a big difference between a 51-49 senate and a 50-50 senate. democrats still control the way this legislation makes its way through the senate, but it just gives them breathing room they didn t previously have. it will make it a lot easier for them to tuck off a lot of things on the biden agenda that are important. it doesn t eliminate the problem of the republicans being in control of the house, which is going to stymie a lot of things, but there s no doubt that chuck schumer will have more flexibility now than he did the previous two years. and to suh moan s point of this being a pink state, i want to read what the new york
he has the support of the incoming house majority. but still if donald trump is unable to pull himself out of this downward political spiral that he s in, you can point to the results last night as being decisive. if i can go back to the results of that race, because i think both candidates had something or somethings really fascinating to say. i want to play more from warnock s speech. take a listen. am georgia. i am an example and an it ration of its history. of the possibility. but because this is america, because we always have a path to make our country greater against unspeakable odds, here we stand
president since fdr not to lose a single senate seat. in the midterms. so it all parties. i m so proud of the state of georgia because often times we can take elections for granted, but as kro the state people showed up. and i was eeb proud to hear herschel walker last night pit grew up. he was a hero to so many of us what we heard from warnock and from herschel walker was really what we hoped to hear from people no matter the party affiliation when they run for office and when the election is over, we should all come together. last night was a really proud night for all of us. gracious in vukt ri and generous in depete. we spent a lot of time on this show talking about the rise in hate crimes, including cincinnati semitism. incidents hit ab all time high.