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Hey there, it's Playbook editor, Mike Debonis.

Something a little different today to start the week.

Playbook deputy editor, Zach Stanton, is here for today's Playbook Daily Briefing.

Okay, Zach, the main event this week.

It's finally here, the Georgia Senate runoff election.

It's happening Tuesday. Right now, it really feels like a fait accompli. There's really this sense that Raphael Warnock has the advantage here.

The polls generally show him with a lead, a small weed, but a consistent lead nonetheless.

We have the predicted betting market has the chances of a Warnock victory at 89% to Herschel

Walker's 10%. And we've just had the same sort of narrative sort of continue from the general

election into the runoff, which is that, you know, Raphael Warnock is running a discipline

campaign and Herschel Walker is, is not, to put it gently. That he's, you know, the flaws of

his candidacy not only continue, but they seem to expand.

We've seen more women that he's been in relationships come forward with unfettering details about his personal behavior.

And, you know, the other thing here is just sort of the political atmosphere and the dynamics regarding the fact that the

majority in the Senate is is settled and the stakes are not quite as high as they were in the last

Georgia Senate runoff. Is that right, Zach? I think that's absolutely right. And, you know,

you noted that the majority isn't at stake at this point, which may not be something given his recent statements.

It's unclear whether or not Herschel Walker himself actually knows that.

He had an interview the other day that he gave where he suggested that control of the house was still undetermined.

It was just the latest in a series of flummixing remarks from Herschel Walker. I think the way that everyone here in

D.C. sees this going at this point is that it seems like Warnock's to lose at this point. But

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