the republicans. and democrats won both of those races. and now they have one yet another senate seat in the deep south. this is a real moment for republicans to figure out how they are going to proceed and it goes beyond donald trump at this point. because it is not just trumpism. it s also a lot of trump voters who are we are trump s and maybe even beyond that at a certain point. and that is what is pushing the party so far to the right that they are not able to get out of these primaries unscathed with a candidate who can really survive in a general election. the primary process is a huge part of the problem here. it is making them vulnerable. it s making them unpalatable in the suburbs. it s making them unpalatable to a lot of these emerging voters of color, who are decisive in states like nevada and arizona and georgia. but these are big problems.
defeat, saying that his losing senate campaign is the achievement he s most proud of, conceding, which is significant for somebody who, at one point, was engaged in spreading donald trump s election lies. and in fact, manu raju, while we wait for the winner of the election, raphael warnock, to come out and give his celebration speech, we should note that after donald trump lost the state of georgia, herschel walker was among there is retweeting downtown selection isn t attacking brian kemp and secretary of state raffensperger, too conservative republicans who are resoundingly elected reelected last month. yeah, herschel walker would not be here if it were not for don trump. he was a supporter of donald trump s 2020 election campaign. herschel walker lived in texas. he was not even in georgia. it was not because he was not going to run until trump pushed him into the race, and essentially got republican behind him, led to mitch
republicans conservatives are tired of losing, that 2024 should be a time to reevaluate, and that they need twos well. the big question here now for those around trump s whether he can actually hold on to his base. i spoke to one former trump advisor who said there is still a large portion of the republican base who only cares about donald trump. but some in his orbit just are not so sure. jake, i m glad to say what i said at the beginning of the night and repeat it again now. donald trump needed herschel walker to win. he needed him to win after those lackluster midterm results, after a number of candidates that he had put forward fizzled or flopped in the midterms. and after his own campaign seems to be stalled. he now has even less momentum going into his 2024 cycle, after he announced his third presidential bid than he did when he announced after his midterms bid. all right, kristen holmes, thanks so much. let s talk about this with our panel. it s interesting, herschel walker sa
his republican challenger, football star herschel walker after a close and with blushing runoff election this allegiance vocal times as votes came in this evening, this means democrats are getting what they wanted, an outright senate majority of 51 seats. that will strengthen their control of the chamber of the next two years. republicans will lose the seat. they will have 49 in the next senate. their hopes of keeping the senate evenly divided dashed. herschel walker s loss is clearly a huge blow to republicans, perhaps especially to donald trump. kristen holmes has more on that. kristen, what are you hearing from inside the republican party? it is certainly especially to donald trump. we have already started hearing republicans, some of them in more veiled language, not using trump s name directly, saying it s time to reevaluate the party, it s time that they should be a moment of reckoning. others are blaming trump outright. prominent i will republican bob van drew plots, who once
going to be seeing and are already seeing, you are running around, covering, every single day on the hill which is, the race for the speakership on the republican side. and kevin mccarthy is trying to walk this line. because he has been very robustly supportive of donald trump over the past many years, but even after the insurrection. and it is because of what he sees in his own caucus, that that house republican caucus, those who are from those ruby red states, and there are so many ruby red districts they haven t move past donald trump. no question. and that s the real divide within the republican party. the house republicans still dominate so many of those trump allies because of the fact that they come from these they have to win primaries, in these very red districts. and senate republicans are a much more s more diverse constituency, want to get away from donald trump. i can tell you, just talking to senate republicans, since the dinner dinner with antisemite, since the t