now now there are those who will look at the outcome of this race and say that, yes, you re right, we won. but there are those who would look at the outcome of this race and say that there s no voter suppression in georgia. let me be clear. just because people endured long lines that wrapped around buildings, some blocks long just because they endured the rain and the cold and all kinds of tricks in order to vote, it doesn t mean that voter
and solidify georgia as potentially decisive 2024 presidential battleground state. senator warnock thanked his supporters at campaign headquarters late tuesday. the incumbent democrat pledged to walk with the people of his state and represent all georgians. georgia, i don t want you to miss what you ve done. in a moment in which there were folks trying to divide our country and those forces are very much at work right now, georgia did an amazing thing. in 2021, it sent its first african american senator and its first jewish senator to the united states senate in one fell swoop. [ applause ] and you have done it again. thank you, georgia! [ cheering ]
races. and i think it proved those two things were things that voters talked about repeatedly and things that worked for democrats. i mean, warnock, i can t stress it enough repeatedly was constantly talking about the fact that republicans in the state of georgia were trying to make it so voters could not cast a vote on saturday, on the weekend, and saying that they were trying to take that ability away from you, and that they were trying to restrict the vote in other ways. and it seems to have definitely helped him tonight. yeah, no, i think it s a really good point. final thoughts. alice? i think there is no more appropriate place than the state of georgia for people to recognize the fact that trumpism is gone with the wind. general election voters are tired of conspiracy theorists, of election deniers, people that are more focused on past grievances than their personal future of the voters. and what we re going to see, if trump s base and the people that really support trump rea
attorneys for the trump organization say they plan to appeal. joining me now, political commentator mo kelly, live from los angeles, and mike madrid, a republican consultant in sacramento. thank you both for being with us. i know it s a little bit earlier out on the west coast than it is here, but we appreciate you being up late with us regardless. mo, let me start with you. what is your view on this has been a pretty rough 24, 48 hours for donald trump, between the stories we just ran through, whether it s criminal referrals on january 6th, the conviction for his company on tax fraud, or the election in georgia where his hand-picked candidate lost. i would say it s a bad night, an extension of a bad week and bad month. that s saying nothing of what happened last week with the whole kanye west drama. if anything, we re seeing the loosening of the grip of donald trump on the republican party. there are more republican members of this congress who are willing to criticize him, maybe
greater the population. almost all the big circles are right in these areas where herschel walker underperformed, where raphael warnock did very well. and that s where the votes are. there is one more thing i want to show you, one more way to look at this just in a historical perspective of what we re beginning to see in georgia, and a little bit around the country in some of these more suburban counties. look at henry county. henry county is the atlanta area, but really the southern suburbs of atlanta. you can see raphael warnock in the election overnight. a 33-point margin. that s big, right? 33 points. two years ago, he led by about 25 points in the presidential election a little more than two years ago, it was joe biden. but biden led by 20. you re seeing a trend here. 33, 35, 20. hillary clinton, she won but by about 4 points. and you go back to 2012.