voted, this upcoming sunday she can proudly raise her hand. dianne gallagher in atlanta, thank you so much. cnn s john berman is standing by at the magic wall. so where does each candidate need to perform well? maybe as good as they did in november or better. reporter: look, it s pretty obvious for raphael warnock where he needs to perform well. these are the results from one month ago. you can see the blue areas, the atlanta metro area around savannah and around columbus, the more urban areas or suburbs in this case and to give you a sense of the margins, right, talk about fulton county, the biggest county in the atlanta area. you can see he won 73% to 24%, a 200,000-vote margin there. in gwinnett county nearby, 50,000-vote margin, dekalb county, 210,000-vote margin, 84% to 14%. that s where he needs to perform well. for herschel walker, it s a little bit of a different situation.
home. you know or whether they ll switch their votes. it s hard to say right now which direction they re going to go. anecdotally i ve talked to some people who voted for brian kemp and raphael warnock who intend to come back out and vote for raphael warnock but, you know, that s anecdotal. brian kemp s ad is definitely helping herschel walker but i don t know if all of his support is just transferable to herschel walker. i think there are also some people in georgia who are just tired of elections and may just be a little wary to come back out and vote but certainly brian kemp s support has helped but i ll be curious to see if herschel walker really, you know, can get some of those voters in his corner. all right, we ll watch it together. shannon mccaffrey, thank you. cnn s special live coverage of the georgia runoff starts at the top of the hour. we re all following new developments in the investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the house committee investigat
day before the election up in the north georgia mountains. those are tiny counties, they don t have a huge amount of people but he really needs those folks to turn out for him and, you know, yesterday he was also in cobb county as i think john mentioned, you know, which is interesting because brian kemp did overperform him there and i think he s really hoping that even if he doesn t win cobb county, he could perform a little better than he did last time. and, shannon, we keep hearing about the youth vote, that gen-z, so the new voters, people who haven t, you know, who may have just turned 18 say that they re really activated this time. yeah, so the early voting actually showed that the largest, you know, the largest group of voters were older, 45 and up. the youth voters did turn out and i think slightly better numbers during the general election. i can tell thaw raphael warnock has really been making a play for those voters. he appeared sunday at the university of georgia. he app
what he needs to do, i ll show you. he trailed by 37,000 votes. it s not that much. 1.9 million votes for herschel walker, if you look at brian kemp, the republican gubernatorial candidate, he got 2.1 million votes so he got 200,000 plus 200 a bad plus sign, plus 200,000 more votes than herschel walker did, so for walker, he s got to do or try to do what brian kemp did, where can he do that? well, in places like cobb county where is right next to fulton county, now, cobb county has voted democratic the last two elections but used to be a republican area. suburban republican area. you can see walker got 40% there. but brian kemp got 47% there so herschel walker needs to make those margins better and i pointed out to you and i ll show you again, i like this fact, there are three counties that voted for raphael warnock, the democrat, for senator and voted
let s discuss with politics reporter from the atlanta journal-constitution shannon mccaffrey. thanks for being here. what are the factors that you think are driving georgians to the polls today? well, i think, you know, the factors are different for the different candidates. i think, you know, some of the folks coming out to support herschel walker, you know, are looking past some of his flaws and some of his gaffes and other issues, because they simply want another republican vote in the senate. so i think in some ways while some of them really like herschel walker, i think there s a significant number who are holding their nose a little bit and just trying to give mitch mcconnell an extra vote. i think it s similar with raphael warnock. people are, you know, looking he s been makes the case 51 is better than 50. but folks who are supporting raphael warnock tend to be talking a little bit more about his character, his personality, you know, the lack of scandals surrounding him c