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slash Ben. Well, as expected, Rafael Warnock held back a challenge from Herschel Walker in the Senate

runoff election in Georgia. It was widely expected that Walker was not going to do as well in the runoff

election as he did in the actual election with Brian Kemp at the top of the ticket because Kemp was

not on the ticket to drag him to victory. Walker's turnout was significantly higher than I think a lot of people had predicted.

The race was a lot closer than I think a lot of people had predicted. The final results between

Walker and Warnock ended up being pretty close. If you look at the latest result, Raphael Warnock

won about 1.8 million votes, 1.817 million votes.

And Herschel Walker won 1.719 million votes. We lost by about 100,000 votes out of a little bit under 3 million votes cast, about 2.5 million votes with 3.5 million votes were cast, actually a little under 4 million votes in that election.

So I lost by a little bit under 100,000 votes, which is a

relatively large margin. Now, if you recall, Warnock and Walker were essentially dead even in the

original election. In that election, Brian Kemp won by a significant margin against Stacey Abrams.

Kemp is the only reason that Walker was even close in the runoff election because the entire

voting machine that had been built by Brian Kemp in Georgia allowed Herschel Walker to take advantage

of it. But the fact of the matter is that Herschel Walker was a particularly weak candidate.

It turns out that picking candidates on the basis of name recognition is not a wonderful way

to pick candidates. Obviously, President Trump's picks in the Senate

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