longer theoretical. pro trump election deniers will top the gop ticket in at least three key states this november. this is truly a battle between those who want to save america and those who want to destroy her. what happens if they re in charge of the ballot box in 2024? they don t believe in democracy. they don t believe in our election system. it is very dangerous. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. we ll take you inside the senate floor. you re looking at live pictures where senators have been at it all night. they are debating the democrats $740 billion bill. manu raju is joining us now. what s going on on the senate floor? a little party for some of these senators, right? reporter: they ve been going since 11:30 p.m. eastern time last night. there are hours more of amendment votes ahead. no way to estimate exactly what time this will end. under the rules of the
retiring. mo brooks is hoping to advance there without trump s endorsement after brooks said that voters should move past trump s 2020 defeat. and in arkansas, sarah huckabee sanders is favored to win the republican nomination in what is a deep red state. but the spotlight will be on the race for governor in georgia today. the popular incumbent governor kemp faces david perdue. kemp was a target of trump after he refused to help overturn the 2020 election results, that race also pitting mike pence against his former boss. pence stumping for kemp at a primary eve rally monday. the polls indicate kemp is headed for a rematch with stacey abrams in november. and meantime herschel walker is expected to easily win his senate primary in georgia setting the stage for one of the most closely watched senate races pitting the former nfl star against the current democratic senator raphael war warnock. joining us now to break it all down, rachel bay. nice to have you this morning. let s
democrats would have expected at this i don t think democrats would have expected it. i certainly didn t expect it. and i think this just gets at something we ve seen so far, which is, you know, candidates do matter. if we look, if we look basically at the popularity of the different make sure i get this right. there we go. the popularity of the different senate candidates that republicans are running. take a look here. look at these key races. herschel walker in georgia, ron johnson in wisconsin, dr. oz down in pennsylvania. look at their net favorability ratings. this is the favorable. they re all under water. on the democratic side, similar we ve seen the democratic side for the most part is these candidates are much more favorable. in georgia you see raphael war warnock. in wisconsin we don t have a candidate yet. we can go over to the senate side now. you can basically see, look at the leads the different senate candidates have.
these are the choice for senate. look at pennsylvania, look at georgia, look at wisconsin. look at fetterman s lead, 11 points. georgia, warnock s lead. barnes, a plus two points over ron johnson. here s the other thing. we re also talking about states that joe biden has won. that s the other reason democrats are feeling pretty good about what s going on in the senate. that s exactly right. if you look essentially at these states and you say, okay, what are the most competitive democratic seats, who won them in the last presidential election. look at all the seats democratically won. romney won all of them by double digits. look here at the 2020 midterm. joe biden won all of them. some were closer than others but this is a very different battleground than i think that a lot of people are used to. that s part of the reason you have bad republic candidates and
democratic senator raphael war warnock. joining us now to break it all down, rachel bay. nice to have you this morning. let s start with georgia. governor kemp s focus seems to have shifted now, or maybe it has always been squarely focused on stacey abrams. he is not worried about perdue. perdue is lagging behind and lobbing a bunch of attacks from every direction. what are you most interested to watch tonight? i think that is just a sign of the rebuke that we ll see delivered to former president donald trump tonight in georgia. this will be the third gubernatorial endorsement that he has made that will fall through the cracks in these primaries which actually hurts his public image and this image that he is trying to project of being the kingmaker. kemp is at something like 22 points over david perdue and this is despite $2.5 million that former president trump