gain a more solid hold on their majority or if the balance of power will remain a 50-50 split with vice president kamala harris breaking the tiebreaker. let s begin with diane gallagher. how are both candidates trying to, you know, make this race happen for them in the home stretch? well, jim, you can probably see behind me and perhaps hear as well, herschel walker, the republican candidate in georgia for the senate race is speaking at this moment. we just heard two of his surrogates, senator tim scott of south carolina and senator john kennedy of louisiana speak to this crowd. look, senator kennedy spent most of his time talking about former president obama who, of course, came here on thursday to rally for senator warnock trying to not just tie warnock to obama but joe biden. listening to herschel walker s
hanging out below the surface waiting for the next eruption, or is this fresh lava unique to this particular eruption? in this case, all the lava is new. this tells us that mauna loa has been brewing quite awhile and we ll see how the eruption unfolds and that will give us info that will allow us to keep communities even safer in the future. thank you so much for your time. we ll keep an eye on this. we know you will as well. appreciate it. thanks very much. it s not just the volcano we re watching. we re keeping a close eye on the runoff election in georgia for the u.s. senate seat which is still up for grabs. on tuesday, just a couple of days from now, georgia voters who haven t voted will choose between raphael warnock and herschel walker. both are making final pitches this weekend. it will determine if democrats
fans who are all in for herschel walker. and then you have other republicans who say he s not the best candidate. i have some concerns. but i want to support republicans. those are the people like jeff duncan and some of those are moving forward in their and they voted for herschel walker in the general election. they say they ll do so in the midterms even though they have reservations but there are some republicans and the moderates, the independents who say herschel walker s controversies are too much for them to stomach. the question is, are there enough of them to sway this election and how many of them are going to follow in jeff duncan s footsteps and stay home or go with those 200,000 split-ticket voters we saw in the midterms and vote for raphael warnock. that s going to be a big question mark going into tuesday. tia mitchell, it s a fascinating race. we know you ll be watching.
majority in the senate, they may let up a bit in this race, are you finding that to be the case. no. i m not finding that to be the case. i think the race is as close as the polls reflect. you know, just today talking to voters here in loganville at the herschel walker rally, they still see a lot of upside to take raphael warnock out of office, putting a republican in that seat, forcing democrats to have to split power in the senate. yes, democrats would have the tie-breaking vote, but they still would have to have 50-50 splits in committees. we ve seen that for the past two years and how that has had an impact, for example, on president biden s appointments and even their ability to move forward on legislation or investigations. so republicans say they re just as fired up about herschel walker as democrats are about raphael warnock. but for republicans, it s that
speech so far, he hasn t changed that much of his typical campaign stump speech throughout these final days. this is actually his only public event today. they re going to be busy tomorrow. the busiest i ve seen them with five separate events. he goes through his biography and begins talking about warnock. warnock notably, jim, has been sharpening those attacks on herschel walker s character as well as his fitness to serve if he were elected. diane gallagher, thank you very much. we ll keep an eye on it. joining me now is tia mitchell, washington correspondent for the atlanta journal-constitution. the latest polls give senator warnock a slight edge over herschel walker. based on the reporter that you ve been doing, is this race as close as the polling suggests? i suppose one might think that while republicans already know they re not going to have the