areas. grew numbers in some cases but only 1 or 2%, he needed to grow by 5 or 6%. at the same time, raphael warnock did expand his lead in the metro areas, around savannah augusta, dcolumbus, atlanta, of course. it felt like herschel walker s enthusiasm for his candidacy fell off almost a cliff. you could feel it in the state. and you could feel raphael warnock and the democrats say to themselves this party just lost eight statewide elections in november we have one more chance to win statewide and that was raphael warnock. he also ran a totally different campaign from herschel walker reached out to the moderate and independent voters and he was everywhere across the state and herschel walker kept a limited schedule, didn t get to the areas he hit before. so you saw it in the numbers last night. he took five days off the campaign trail. i know that s a source of
third of the so of the electorate. there were ads for raphael warnock in korea, because there s an asian-pacific island vote in the state, that s less than 5% of the vote, but that was arguably the margin of victory in the case. you have to get creative but yes, start with the black vote, maximize it and so forth. when raphael warnock talks about the long lines and so forth, one of the things i think backfired on republicans that they should think about is that putting in place a lot of these measures, making it harder and harder to vote, is an organizing tool for democrats and keeps them active between races. that s the key to building a machine, you keep people mobilized, keep organizers out in the field. that was a part of why raphael warnock won. i want to talk about that. this is ronald mcdaniel and sean
this broad base coalition. he had labor union workers, progressive whites, independents, he was able to pull this broad based coalition. but without a doubt his base vote were black voter, black voters came out in record numbers in the pea rmetro area also the rural areas. so black voters showed up and showed out on this particular election. let s talk about black women, though. black women did what we do. i think it s really interesting. i think in this election we saw a narrative that was saying not just black men would not come out, what we saw is that black men came out and supported warnock in record numbers. black women and men were on the ground leading these efforts that it was grass root organizations. i can t tell you how many organizations from fraternities to sororities to civic engagement groups. what we saw was clearly a
where did herschel walker underperform? and this is telling. look at this. what do all these areas have in common, you have the atlanta, the urban and suburban area around columbus, augusta, savannah. it s where the large population centers are. the bigger the circle, the more the population. all the big circles really in those areas were herschel walker underperformed. what s interesting, as you talk to republicans over the course of the morning what you ll find, the areas they re most concerned about, the suburban areas around atlanta. you can see, raphael warnock won we net county, what s the math by 25, do d plus 25 in gwyenette county. just two years ago, that margin
huge. thank you for joining us this morning. i m sure you were up late last night. as you were. we all were. kaitlan we ll get back to you soon. great reporting down there. i want to play more of what senator warnock had to say last night in the speech about voter suppression. let s play it. 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, doesn t mean that voter suppression does not exist. it simply means that you, the people, have decided that your voices will not be silent. let s bring in the a-team, political commentator se cup and errol lewis and david urban,