another convincing victory. difficult terrain, both historically and politically. for this to happen, for democratic senator raphael warnock to win in a state otherwise dominated by republicans, particularly the cycle, for him to win for the second time in two years while his party is currently holding the presidency, while, it requires a lot to have gone right for the democrats, and a lot to have gone wrong for the republicans. that was actually true for the midterms and general. in fact, this election in georgia, both elections, this runoff particularly, sort of a perfect microcosm of the midterms as a whole. right? and the republican side, the person everyone is blaming today, correctly, is donald trump. he was, after all, donald trump s idea to recruit herschel walker for no other reason than because he appeared on his game of celebrity apprentice. trump has known him for years, and herschel walker played football in georgia, although he had since moved to texas. but that s about i
democratic senator raphael warnock to win in a state otherwise dominated by republicans. particularly this cycle. for him to win for the second time in two years while his party is currently holding the presidency, it requires a lot to have gone right for the democrats. and a lot to have gone wrong for the republicans. that was actually true for the midterms in general. in fact, this election in georgia, both elections, this runoff particularly. a perfect microcosm of the midterms of a whole. so on the republican side, the person everyone is blaming today, correctly is donald trump. it was after all of donald trump s idea to recruit herschel walker for no other reason than because he appeared on his game show the celebrity apprentice. trump has known him for years. and herschel walker played football in georgia. though he had since moved to texas. that s about it. and this was, i think pretty obviously a bad idea. like it was a bad idea for republicans to nominate a whole
cue donald trump calling mexicans murderers and rapists. laura: let s say in georgia. because i think this is really important for people to understand what did happen in georgia. when voter registrations and, kim, you have written about this, the integrity of the vote does need to be maintained. and duplicate registrations, people registered in multiple counties and names not quite matching. states all across the country end up cleaning up their rolls. but this has turned into a racial football in georgia, kim. you heard what jonathan said. 53,000 purged from the rolls. is that really what has been happening and is kemp the culprit? no. because we ve been cleaning up the voter rolls. it s a routine thing that happens in states year after year. you are not seeing it happen to
mexicans murderers and rapists. laura: let s say in georgia. when voter registration and kim you have written about this, the integrity of the vote needs to be maintained. duplicate registrations or whose names don t match, states across the country end up cleaning up their rolls. they have always done it. this has turned into a racial football in georgia. you heard what jonathan said. 53,000 purged from the rolls. is that really what has been happen something happening and is kemp the cull brit? no, it s a routine thing that happens in states year after year. you are not seeing it happen to just minorities.