that were pointed out with bill, my question is how these atlanta counties, how many votes will favor raphael warnock over walker, you know, i have my doubts, i have concerns, real concerns, that the remaining votes coming in will favor raphael warnock. but as you just mentioned, i kind have given up on political procrastination because boy, it is hard to call some of the races, but yes, it looks like it s going to be tight one way or the other and i have to tell you that i m not optimistic about walker holding on right now. tucker: since you know a lot about the mechanics of these things, sir, the get out the vote operation.n that was put io operation, whether it was legitimate or not, they did a lot of great deal work on this. are the republicans doing this as well?
of the state, is he able to make up the early vote turnout that raphael warnock was able to secure over the course of the week and a half of early voting? that s what we are looking at in the next hours ahead. vaughan, they can t rest on that early voting, as good as those margins may have been. they need election day voters. from what i m looking at behind you, they re not getting them, at least in that part of fulton county. quick question, vaughan, before we let you go. the weather right now, it doesn t seem to be a factor. was it raining earlier? is it going to rain later? reporter: no, it s been 50 degrees here throughout the course of the morning so far. unlike yesterday, when it was downpouring throughout the day, it s just been mist here. weather should not be a factor if they don t pull off a good election day turnout. vaughan hillyard, thanks so much. kristin welker and mark murray, let s drill down a little bit. you had the big interview with herschel walker a couple o
strong turnout for democrats, will he be able to make that up? that s a real question mark. he has not been campaigning with former president trump. he didn t do that during the first race. of course, you have raphael warnock who has not been campaigning with joe biden. president biden in arizona today. keeping a distance from the standard bearers. when you look at the republican rural counties, is this going to make the difference? can herschel walker do it? steve really laid it out well. herschel walker was the outlier in the general election. he ended up underperforming brian kemp, brad raffensperger. one thing that they had in common that was different than herschel walker was, they stood up to donald trump. they defeated donald trump in their home of georgia. herschel walker has been aligned with the former president,
raphael warnock? the walker campaign hopes they have been campaigning with governor kemp. they have been tethered together more here than they were in the general election. they hope that will make the difference. that s what is striking. look back at the november general election, the preliminary for the senate, that s what s striking. on paper, this was an electorate that could have elect aid republican senator. joe biden s approval rating in november in georgia was 41%. republicans won the other statewide offices. there were specific doubts and reservations when it came to herschel walker, that s the conclusion from november. has he erased those doubts between then and now? thanks so much, steve kornacki. we will be watching all day and tonight. vaughan, what are the expectations when herschel walker was facing controversy and the republican party was trying to make him more acceptable to those doubters and you came out with a report just
outlining, it was the democrats who were encouraged by what they saw, particularly the democratic counties where they needed to really bulk up and add cushio ahead of election day. look where we are. we are at one particular polling place in the heart of fulton county which was the county that includes atlanta that went three to one for the likes of raphael warnock over walker one month ago. what you see today are few voters. i was talking to a worker at this voting location who said they just had 125 folks come in to vote here in the first four hours since the polls opened here. she goes by contrast, she worked early voting last week and they had thousands of folks that came out to the early voting center. she said at one point on friday, the last day of early voting, they had 2 1/2 hour lines, which is what democrats were expecting. they need it. now the question is, is the likes of herschel walker, particularly in the rural parts