doubts. i think he s run a pretty disastrous campaign and that if he somehow emerges to prevail in this runoff contest that brian kemp will immediately go to the top of the heap for gop presidential contenders because it will be all governor kemp who has helped push herschel walker forward. he s had a number of personal scandals, controversies that have come forward and one of the most popular ads by reverend warnock s campaign right now is just voters watching herschel walker say goofy things on the stump that are kind of non sequiturs and his ties to donald trump have been problematic in georgia but when you look at the polling, that very good cnn cnn polling you see how close the race is any way which is why that turnout matters and, you know, what we know about the general election returns is that around the country black voters did not come out en masse with
georgia between those radio and television ads you cannot ignore of this runoff contest. we ve seen quite a bit of star power on the campaign trail. former president barack obama on the trail last night in support of senator warnock. he was also here just a few weeks ago during the general election. there s also been a bevy of hollywood celebrities too. america ferrera, tessa thompson. meanwhile, herschel walker has pretty much been joined on the trail by senate republican, chief among them senator lindsey graham. both of the candidates crisscrossing the state today. we re still learning, waiting to learn herschel walker s weekend schedule. we do know though that senator warnock will be returning to a college campus over the weekend. i think that is noteworthy because he has spent quite a bit of time emphasizing the youth vote. critical final weekend. eva, thank you. our reporters are back at the table to discuss.
warnock tie warnock directly to biden. you heard president, the biggest threat to democracy is to vote for somebody in the republican party? is he crazy? the biggest threat to democracy is to have him in the white house, is it not? trying to tie senator warnock to the policies of the white house and administration. that s their closing strategy to link the two together. senator warnock tried to put distance between himself and the white house. on issues like immigration, on trade, on the economy and indeed inflation. but in the final hours of this race, there s no doubt that georgia could be front and center in the race for control because of a runoff rule here. georgia is unique in a sense that each candidate must get over 50% or the winner must get over 50% to win. if not, this race goes into a runoff contest which is december 6th. so if control of the u.s. senate this week hinges on georgia, we could be waiting one more month to find out the winner.
based on today s numbers, he would be he would force a runoff contest. not to say he would win, but if neither candidate if no candidate gets 40% of the vote, there will be a runoff vote and it would be her and him. how about that? that debate happening in a couple of minutes. you are going to be talking about eric holder. we just learned the attorney general is being investigated for possibly lying to congress. yeah. i think that there is enough legalistic wiggle room for the attorney general to say he did not lie to congress. the question is he was asked about the possible prosecution or his answer was about the possible prosecution of journalists in relation to an elite case. he knows of no incident where there would be a possible or potential prosecution of a reporter. that is not the same as claiming to a judge that you might be interested in a journalist in order to obtain the subpoena to get his records, which is what seems to have happened with the fox news reporter, ja
that s what they said about dahmer, same thing. would have never guessed it. no one s ever said that about willie. let s do a segue from jesse dahmer to political primaries today. vote ners four states going to the polls today to pick up their party s to pick their party s fall candidates. senate races in colorado and connecticut with the ones to watch. in colorado s incumbent senator michael bennett is in a tight race with andrew romanoff. president obama is backing bennett, but former president clinton has thrown his support behind romanov and even did a robo call for him. 42 versus 44. and in connecticut s primary for u.s. senate, former world wrestling ceo linda mcmahon as the front-runner for the republican nomination. the winner of that race is facing the presumptive democratic nominee richard blumenthal who is also a state five-term attorney general. georgia has a runoff contest