It’s a high stakes showdown in a high-profile and extremely expensive Senate race that’s among a handful across the country that will determine if Republicans win back the chamber’s majority. First…
It’s a high stakes showdown in a high-profile and extremely expensive Senate race that’s among a handful across the country that will determine if Republicans win back the chamber’s majority. face off Friday night in Savannah in their first and only debate ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
Walker, who won a Heisman Trophy and helped steer the University of Georgia to a college football national championship four decades ago, jumped into the GOP race to face off against Warnock in the summer of last year, after months of support and encouragement to run for the Senate by This is Walker’s first run for public office and in the days leading up to Friday’s showdown, his public campaigning schedule has been light, giving the candidate ample time to prepare for the debate.
The narrow victory by Warnock, the senior pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, over Loeffler and Democrat Jon Ossoff’s razor-thin win over GOP Sen. David Perdue on the same day in Georgia’s twin Jan. 5, 2021, runoff elections gave the Democrats the Senate majority. Warnock is now running to serve a full six-year term.
A source close to the Walker campaign said that the GOP nominee’s mission in the debate is “to show he’s a senator. That’s all he’s got to do.” Asked in a Fox News Digital interview days later if he was attempting to lower expectations of his debate performance ahead of the showdown with Warnock, Walker said “not at all. Everyone has been telling me he’s [Warnock] such a smooth talker. He’s such an incredible speaker…. So I reckon I’m not as smart as Warnock. But I’m looking forward to the debate, because this country boy’s gotta show up and be prepared to go, and we’re gonna show the people the differences between he and I.
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