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Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, September 9. I'm Naila Boudou.

Here's what we're covering today. The world mourns Queen Elizabeth. Plus reframing the evangelical

view of climate change. But first, how race is driving the final weeks of Georgia's Senate race?

That's today's one big thing.

There's a neck and neck Senate race going on in Georgia right now between Republican

Herschel Walker and incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock. It's one of the rare competitions between

two black candidates on a national stage and each has a very different message for voters about

racism. Here's a moment from a new campaign ad for Walker that's been causing a stir this week.

Senator Warnock believes America is a bad country full of racist people. I believe we're a great

country full of generous people. One I want to divide us. I want to bring us together. Axios political

reporter Basin Atlanta, Emma Hurt has been covering this. Hi Emma. Hey Naila. Emma, what's the

strategy behind Walker's ad? I think that language may have surprised some people. It has struck

accord with some people though it is consistent with the way Walker has spoken about race on the

campaign trail. This is the first time we're seeing it out here in this way in an ad. I spoke to

political scientists here who studies political mobilization and race under Gillespie at Emory and

she said this ad doesn't seem to be for black people because black people acknowledge that there

is systematic racism. This ad she argues is more for white people, for independence, for undecided

people who who might resonate with this message. But it is such a big contrast when you look at

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