All right, he had a look at everyone and welcome to it. It is the Derrick Hunter Podcast for the eighth day of December, 2022, the day after the date which will live in infamy.

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We have a lot going on. There's a bunch of stuff happening in the world. We have to start off, of course, with the results of the Georgia race. Knock me over with a feather.

Raphael Warnock was reelected as Senator from Georgia. Now there's a lot. It's funny. What is it? Success as a million fathers, but failure is an orphan or whatever. That's something along the lines of what the saying is.

And it's true. It's true, but it is worth looking at the failures of people in this case. Now the Trump wing of the party is saying it's that damn Mitch McConnell and the Republican establishment, the Republican establishment wing of the party is saying it's Trump and it's candidate selection.

Which is true, probably both. Honestly, the people who profess the loudest that they had nothing to do with a failure usually are the ones with whose fingerprints all over that failure.

And especially, you know, those who scream first, we didn't have nothing to do with this. Are the people who did, in fact, pull the screw out that caused the whole scaffolding to collapse.

But it is worth noting when it comes to particularly Georgia, candidate quality might have had a role in this. These are the results from the 20, 22 elections just held a month ago in Georgia.

The Republican governor, one by eight points, the Republican lieutenant governor, one by five points, the Republican secretary of state, one by nine points, the Republican attorney general, one by five points, the Republican agriculture commissioner, one by eight points, the state school superintendent, the Republican there, one by eight points.

And the commissioner of labor, one by seven points in Georgia this year.

Hershel Walker lost by, it looks like two points, 51, 49, which frankly, for my mind is that it's, you know, that's a hell of a lot closer than I thought it would be.

It should have been one by the Republicans and had Hershel Walker been a better candidate, hell of Hershel Walker had been a good candidate.

He likely would have won. But if you look back, David Purdue, two years ago, not exactly the most compelling candidate, Kelly Leffler, not exactly the most compelling candidate.

I went to a dinner, I don't know, maybe a year ago, maybe a little bit more with Kelly Leffler in Washington, DC, a friend of mine worked at a PR firm and she was starting an organization for voter integrity in Georgia.

Well, clearly it worked, it impacted, they won every race across the state except for one.

But she's much more engaging, much more, much better candidate in person than she is at a campaign event.

I've watched her be interviewed, I've watched her be at rallies and things, not, not a good campaigner. Some people just don't have it.

Some people are, you know, you get them off stage and they're wildly, they're awesome to be around there, hilarious, they're engaging, they have a lot of energy.

And then you put them on a stage or you put them in an interview where they're asked questions and they just go, I just stick to my stock talking points, wildly reserved, etc., etc.

That was the way it was with Kelly Leffler, I don't know what it was with David Perdue other than he's not, I mean, David Perdue clearly didn't appeal to Republicans that he got blown out of the water when he challenged Brian Kemp for the governor's nomination this time around, so it wasn't even close.

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