generation of leaders. my party has a lot of talent. when you have a man who can win in a state where just a few years ago they were hunting us down with dogs, that puts him right at the top of the democratic party. it s interesting, paul and april, i m really interested in your take as in this as well as to. there s a lot of interest herschel walker and his flaws of candidate. all true. but the reality was he was a flawed candidate standing up against somebody who is incredibly talented with a very bright future. this was not a generic democratic candidate in reverend warnock. reverend warnock is someone, again, who has felt the state of georgia. he understands the state of georgia, being a person from georgia. he has also been involved more. he patient baltimore as well. he has not all his life lived in georgia. but he has seen some of the heard that he is talking about tonight. he s seen people say, look,, i need to be seen. and he talked about that. and he also said the vote, t
our panel in a second. but first i, want to get straight to cnn political director david chalian, who is at the magic wall for us. david, help us understand what unfolded tonight and what it has about the voters in georgia and the state the country. and where it leads us, because as you noted, this is the senate now that america wakes up to this morning, a new balance of power, 51 democrats, 49 republicans, democrats have increased their majority in the united states senate. and they did it with this georgia runoff, this last race of the cycle, to be called. i want you to note here, right now in the vote count, you have raphael warnock, 82,801 votes ahead, of herschel walker. 51.2% to 48.8%. this is 99% the estimated vote in. obviously, we projected warnock the winner here. but we are gonna see these votes change as more votes get reported. i want to note, if you look back to november 8th, and you take a look at the runoff
critical nature of the vote is like like a prayer. like a prayer, yes, because it moves people to think and call for the betterment of this nation. colin response. and people really resonated with that. and then also, he said i see you. because part of the problem in georgia, as paul and i had this conversation before, pollex to say, you know, georgia s changing. it s changing, but we still had a , talk about gunning down with dogs. we still remember maud aubrey. and we still remember fourth south county in the 80s, when forsyth had not one black person in that county. and now it s 4.4% black. but at the end of the day, raphael warnock is a man who wants to connect with the people. he says i m with you, and i will serve you. but you juxtapose to what they had, a republican candidate who was put there the cause he was a friend of donald trump and it was on the prentice one-time, and also an attempt to bring
why do i say that? i say that because it is going to embolden so many other people to run for president of the united states to challenge him. of, course he just wants to have a coronation in his nomination process. but that does not look like it will be the case. what i believe scott will tell you, is is there s 15 or 20 people onstage, donald trump is more likely, because he still controls from anywhere to quarter or a third of republican base, he s more likely to come out of that victorious. because what the republican party has not done, and nobody has talked about this or mention this, they have not structurally changed their republican nominating process. as long as states are winner take all states, and some can only get a court of the vote, all of these little things, the january 6th indictments that may or may not come, the prosecution of the trump business, his losses in georgia, all of that means is you are going to have all these one percenters, one percenters like mike rog
said that saturday after thanksgiving would not be available for early voting and we know that warnock s campaign in the democratic party suit and they won. not only did that provide another day of early voting counties that decided to opt in, but it became another rallying cry for democrats. democrats were able to say that this is an example of republicans making it harder to vote, suppressing the vote. this is something that we heard from warnock on the campaign stage in the closing weeks of the runoff. and it paid off in a lot of counties. warnock performed better than he did in november. yeah, pretty remarkable. okay tia mitchell, thank you so much for staying up with us with this race. euro account has been stellar. thank you for being with us. i will be back for much more of this on the georgia runoff, with our panel, but john vause