election. and he lent his organization to the republicans for the runoff organization. this is one of the places this is herschel walker at 62% right now. let s go back one month ago in the governor s race. this is a 74% county for brian kemp. the governor a month ago was at 74%. herschel walker comes in at 67%. that dropoff is what crushed walker. republicans who voted for kemp who did not vote, they either voted for warnock or they left the senate race blank or voted for the libertarian. in these counties, these red counties, the excerpts around atlanta, that s where kemp is incredibly strong. does his support help this time or not? that s one of the big questions. let s talk about that with cnn this morning anchor kaitlan collins. governor kemp played a role in helping herschel walker in this runoff. tell us more about that. what john was just laying out there is potentially critical to what we see actually happen tonight. i actually spoke with a voter
the county. he was at 70%. now, again, we only have early votes so far. he s at 70% a month ago. he s at 58% right now. if that holds up, herschel walker s in trouble. but this is early. and it s all early vote. and we know the democrats tend to perform better even in republican counties, even if these red counties. this is all early vote, the democrat is getting 48%. you go back a month ago, in the end it was 58 to 40. so what you re seeing here is in the first early votes, even in places where senator warnock may come back today is trailing, he s closer than he s likely to be at the end of the night because you re getting the early votes, and democrats tend to disproportionately vote early. but i guess what i m wondering is since this was a challenge, get people to vote again. raphael warnock has now run for this senate seat literally five times in two years.
in fulton county above 70. now you re beginning to see this is the magic of counting votes. you re starting to get them a little bit everywhere. so this is 135,000 vote lead right now. but, again, we went through this a month ago. warnock jumped out to a big lead. then walker pulled out to a lead. so every vote counts, every vote matters. let s be patient as it starts to fill in. but georgia, for all the controversy donald trump has tried to cause georgia, georgia does a very good job counting votes. they report it into the state. they do an excellent job. as pam was noting, only one race tonight. there were a couple runoffs, but there s only one big statewide race tonight. are we expecting the same number of people to vote today and in the early voting for this election as voted in november? because, as you note, there was a governor s race, there were house races, there was the senate race obviously. are we expecting the same
these votes in the county offices for days now. the early voting ended friday. and the counties are allowed to verify them and tabulate them. and then they can release the tabulations once the polls close. we re seeing what they ve already had, verified, sorted, counted, bam you get that. now they go about the business of counting the votes cast today. georgia and every state s different. in georgia they are allowed to count early votes before election day. that s why when you were talking to dianne gallagher and she was here in fulton county. this is what senator warnock needs to do. we are very nerl the very early in the counting. they were able to after friday early voting stops. so you have over the weekend into tuesday, they can get everything in order. they can run the tabulation. and once the polls close, you re seeing early votes come out more quickly.
though i am told by sources that they did have a few conversations during that time period. they ve had one rally together. they have had a fundraiser, several fundraisers that kemp has done. and it is that get out the vote apparatus that kemp built that he has lent to that mcconnell super pact. kemp s sources said they weren t trying to change herschel walker the candidate. but they thought if they were fundraising and if they were getting out and getting republican voters to actually turn out today, that could be e what determines if herschel walker defeats raphael warnock in this race. brian kemp, the just freshly re-elected governor of georgia who won not only republicans but democratic voters as well, giving almost a permission structure to people to vote for herschel walker. and beyond that one of the messages and i d like to hear kaitlan comment on whether or