Seriously, what the fuck is talking about?
On Wednesday, Mr Walker was giving a speech while on the campaign trail when he gave an analogy about a cow and bulls.
“It’s about everybody thinking it’s better somewhere else,” he said. “And I remember talking about this bull that was out in the field and he said six cows with him. Three of them were expecting calves.”
“Not worried about what he got now, the grass is as tall as his knees, all he had to do is eat grass,” he said. “He measured that fence up, and he said ‘you know what? I think I can jump this fence and get over there to those other cows.’”
Mr Walker added that the bull then jumped over the fence and cut his belly, but he was excited -- only to learn the cows were also bulls.
“And the reason I tell you that, don’t think something is better somewhere else,” he said. “This is a good place, and the way we make it better is by coming together.”
I’m not even going to attempt to make sense of any of this so feel free to explain what you think he was trying to say. But at this to a long list of incoherent and dumb shit Walker has said on the campaign trail. Like this:
It’s no wonder that Walker is afraid to debate Warnock:
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock said he’ll debate Herschel Walker at the Republican’s preferred event in Savannah in October — if his GOP challenger accepts a second showdown next month and agrees that the candidates won’t be provided the topics of the questions in advance.
The Democratic incumbent leveled the latest challenge in the ongoing saga on Wednesday after months of back-and-forth between the two rivals that has raised doubts about whether they’ll ever meet each other on the debate stage.
“It’s time for Herschel Walker to stop playing games,” said Quentin Fulks, Warnock’s campaign manager. “The job of a U.S. senator isn’t one where you know the topics ahead of time or get a cheat sheet, and Herschel Walker shouldn’t need one to find the courage to walk on a debate stage.”
The Democrat’s campaign also released a TV ad that will air this week that dares Walker, a former football star, to “show us if you’re really ready to represent Georgia.”
At an event in Emerson on Wednesday, Walker ducked questions about Warnock’s conditions, saying only that “I’m gonna debate, so I’m ready for him.” On social media, Walker said he wanted to “lock down” the Savannah debate on Oct. 14 without the topics ahead of time but didn’t immediately agree to another faceoff.
He also released a new ad claiming that systematic racism isn’t real:
Earlier this week, he released A new ad released a new ad that accuses Democrats - specifically his opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) - of using “race to divide us.”
“Democrats use race to divide us,” the ad says before showing high-ranking democrats like President Joe Biden, vice president Kamala Harris and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
Here's the ad in question.
The ad shows comments from Abrams, Harris and Biden, who could be seen saying “You ain’t Black.” The clip then focuses its attention on Warnock, who says “America has a preexisting condition. It’s called racism.”
Little more context here:
Then, Walker tells viewers, "Senator Warnock believes America is a bad country, full of racist people. I believe we're a great country, full of generous people."
The ad follows comments Walker has repeatedly made on the campaign trail dismissing claims about systemic racism and bigotry.
The new spot claims that while Walker is running on unity, Warnock is running on separation, something Walker told the New York Times about Warnock earlier this year.
Warnock is a long-time civil rights activist and leader, something that helped boost his victory in 2020. According to an analysis of recent polls, he's up an average of two percentage points over Walker.
But Warnock just launched his own ad hitting Walker on abortion:
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., launched a new TV ad Thursday targeting his GOP opponent, former football player Herschel Walker, on his abortion position.
The ad is the latest abortion-focused spot from a Democratic candidate as the party looks to leverage the furor over the Supreme Court's decision to eliminate the Constitutional right to an abortion in the midterm elections.
"There’s one issue where Hershel Walker actually has made his position clear," a narrator says in the 30-second ad. The ad then cuts to footage of Walker being asked if he supports any exceptions to abortion bans, and Walker replies, "Not right now I don't."
The ad also shows footage of Walker saying, "There’s not a national ban on abortion right now, and I think that’s a problem."
The ad hasn’t been posted on Twitter yet but you can watch it here on AdImpact.
Right now, there appears to be split ticket voting in Georgia between Senator Warnock and Governor Brian Kemp (R. GA) in his rematch against Stacey Abrams (D. GA):
Fred Hicks, a Democratic pollster in Atlanta, said Ms. Abrams’s 2018 campaign, and her prominent role in Democratic politics since, had put some voters out of reach to her — even those who turned to Democrats during the Trump era.
“There are Republican voters who are OK with Senator Warnock,” he said. “But there is a very strong anti-Stacey Abrams feeling.”
One of the Abrams campaign’s pollsters, Ben Lazarus of the Democratic data firm TargetSmart, questioned whether Mr. Warnock’s support among Republican voters would hold through November.
“White voters are going to come home to Republicans and Black voters are going to come home to Democrats,” Mr. Lazarus said. “That’s what happens in Georgia.”
In Mr. Kemp, Ms. Abrams is up against a relatively popular governor who, in defeating the Trump-endorsed David Perdue in the primary, demonstrated some independence from the former president with moderate Republican voters.
Mr. Kemp has doled out popular policies like giving bonuses and pay raises for public schoolteachers and state employees, suspending the state’s gasoline tax three times and eschewing any public health guidance related to Covid-19 to keep businesses open.
“You don’t need people from Atlanta or from the White House trying to tell you what to do with your child,” Mr. Kemp said last month at campaign stop in Eastman, Ga.
Ms. Abrams herself has acknowledged the difficulty of her undertaking this time around. During a recent conference call with other Georgia Democrats running for statewide office, she joked about Mr. Kemp being a tougher opponent than Mr. Walker and Burt Jones, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor who took part in a scheme to overturn 2020 election results.
Ms. Abrams acknowledged the moment of candor, saying she “may have made a comment to my colleagues.” But she insisted Democrats in Georgia have to take every Republican seriously.
“Anyone who pretends that there is someone easier or harder to run against is not paying attention to politics,” she said.
In Georgia, Democrats are attempting to weaponize the looming closure of a major Atlanta-based hospital into a potent midterms message.
Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a Democrat, is using the moment to bash Republican Gov. Brian Kemp for refusing to expand Medicaid to roughly 269,000 poor adults stuck in the coverage gap.
The fight is a perennial reminder of the politics of Medicaid expansion — and how Democrats believe it’s a winning issue. For years, party officials have argued the policy provides critical funds to cash-strapped hospitals. Since 2017, it has proven popular at the ballot box, with voters approving measures to expand the safety net program in six mostly red states, including Oklahoma, Missouri and Idaho.
The health system denies Medicaid expansion would have turned around the fortunes of Atlanta Medical Center, a major hospital serving some of the city’s most vulnerable residents. Yet, some Medicaid advocates argue expansion could have delayed the hospital’s closure — and say it gives Abrams a salient message to take to voters. Polling generally shows Kemp with a slight lead over Abrams in one of the nation’s most closely watched gubernatorial contests.
There’s also this:
Technology consultants who sought evidence that Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat was fraudulent made multiple visits to a county elections office in rural Georgia in the weeks after an alleged post-election breach of voting equipment there that is the subject of a criminal investigation.
Surveillance video reviewed by The Washington Post shows that the consultants, Doug Logan and Jeffrey Lenberg, made two visits in January 2021 to the elections office in Coffee County, about 200 miles south of Atlanta. Lenberg made an additional five visits on his own. The two men are under investigation for separate alleged breaches of voting machines in Michigan.
The footage also shows that earlier in January, Cathy Latham, a teacher and then-chairwoman of the county Republican Party, greeted a group of outside data forensics experts when they arrived at the elections office shortly before noon on the day of the alleged breach. Latham has said in sworn testimony that she taught a full day of school that day and visited the elections office briefly after classes ended. She was one of 16 Republicans who signed certificates declaring Trump the rightful winner of the 2020 election as part of the “fake elector” scheme now under investigation by federal and state prosecutors.
The new video adds to the picture of the alleged breach in Coffee County on Jan. 7, 2021, and reveals for the first time the later visits by Logan and Lenberg. It also provides further indications of links between various efforts to overturn the election, including what once appeared to be disparate attempts to access and copy election system data in the wake of Trump’s loss.
Experts have expressed concern that such efforts could expose details of voting systems’ hardware and software that are intended to be tightly controlled, potentially aiding hackers who might seek to alter the results of a future election. Data copied from elections systems in other states has been published online. Georgia state officials and voting-machine makers have downplayed the risk, pointing to safeguards that they say protect the systems from tampering.
There’s also this:
Dozens of bipartisan business executives signed an open letter that warns Georgia’s anti-abortion law and other Republican policies will risk the state’s pro-business reputation.
The letter, released this morning, said the newly implemented restrictions that ban abortions as early as five weeks will force executives “to compete with other states on a whole different level, putting all Georgia firms at a disadvantage.”
“Companies now face the choice of moving to or staying in a state where half of their workforce is facing second-class citizenship and may be subject to investigation or prosecution for routine healthcare,” read the letter, which was promoted by Stacey Abrams’ allies.
It’s signed by corporate leaders and small business owners that “run the political gamut — from Democrat to Republican to independent.” They include Lynne Laube, the chief executive of Cardlytics, entrepreneur Steve Berman and Adam Halberg, the head of Barcelona Wine Bar.
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