How Purple is Georgia?

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week’s Georgia Senate runoff gives Democrats a 51-49 majority in the upper chamber. Raphael Warnock raised a staggering $175 million this cycle to take on former football star Herschel Walker, all of which translated into a relatively slim 3 percentage point victory on election day. Georgia Republican political operative Brian Robinson and Intercept contributor George Chidi join Ryan Grim to discuss the election.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Deconstruct at I'm Ryan Grimm.
0:06.4	In the last few weeks leading up to Tuesday's runoff, we learned that Herschel Walker had
0:10.0	told an audience while he was campaigning that he actually lives in Texas and separately
0:15.0	told a crowd that he was running for the House of Representatives.
0:18.3	In fact, he was running for a Georgia Senate seat and on Tuesday he lost, which means
0:23.2	Democrats will be heading into 2023 with a 51 seat majority courtesy of Raphael Warnock.
0:29.2	Democrats have tightened their grip on the US Senate after Raphael Warnock defeated
0:33.4	Republican challenger Herschel Walker in Georgia.
0:36.0	Senator Raphael, Warnox Victory in Georgia is a crucial win for President Biden's agenda
0:40.3	over the next two years.
0:42.0	Warnox Victory caps off a pretty impressive cycle for Democrats who were able to defend
0:45.8	every Senate seat they had on the ballot and even picked up the open seat in Pennsylvania.
0:50.8	With Biden's win in Georgia in 2020 and two Democrats representing in the Senate, many
0:55.2	in the media are hailed in Georgia's arrival on the electoral map as a bonafide purple
0:59.6	state.
1:00.6	What shade of purple has Georgia turned?
1:05.7	Can we now definitively say that Georgia is a purple state?
1:09.9	It is a purple state without question.
1:12.3	It looks like it's pretty purple at this point.
1:14.4	Yes, it is a purple state right now.
1:17.2	But it's not quite that simple.
1:18.7	As one of my next guests says, Georgia is actually still a red state but with blue characteristics.
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