you had celebrities, a lot of african american celebrities showing up because they wanted to be a part of tonight s celebration. it is going to be a party throughout the city of atlanta for the next day to have. don t be fooled, rafael warnock said tomorrow, we go back to work, but the city of atlanta, going to be doing a different kind of work tonight! what do people there got warnock over the finish line? again, it s a different that he did win, but it was very close. well, stephanie, here s a thing, it wasn t that close. georgia s only recently a purple state. and there is an advantage for a lot of republicans. so it was it wasn t close if you really think about what the ground actually look like. but the difference was the number of organizations that were here. we heard about the new georgia project, we had about operation black votes, but there are other organizations, we votes we win. other organizations for latino, asian americans, it was a huge coalition of people who we
herschel locker. so that was the other question, these big republican vote producing counties. we talk tonight about cherokee county, this is the biggest republican votes producing county in the state. you can see that walker wins it, he doesn t do that much better than he did in november and this is what kept me in november, this is what kemp was getting out of cherokee county. he was getting 74% of the vote. walker still couldn t even get, he barely got a 69% tonight, he needed to be in the 70s in cherokee county. he needed bigger numbers and the big republican counties that are just outside of the atlanta metro area. so he had some good numbers and the rural areas, but the bottom line is in the big republican counties he didn t improve enough, and then the core democratic areas he did not contain warnock s strength, and warnock wins the race. not enough offense and not enough defense. i think we can go live right now to herschel walker s campaign headquarters where he is speaking.