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What Next: The Last Senate Race

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Even after a campaign awash in scandals, gaffes, and the occasional speculation on werewolves vs. vampires, Herschel Walker still can’t be counted out in the run-off election to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate. What can the parties take away from the last race of the 2022 midterms?  Guest: Jim Newell, Senior Politics Writer for Slate. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.6

the dog for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing, and you've got to wrap up warm.

0:42.3

So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit because your wrap top is so warm but then

0:46.1

you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top and you're like, oh, and then

0:50.3

you can see the breath, but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:54.9

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0:58.4

So Jim, I'm wondering if we can start off with the werewolves. Is that possible?

1:12.6

You know, I don't know if I ever really memorized the story and I don't know if the story

1:17.9

was also told in a very clear way. This story wasn't told in a very clear way, but Slate

1:25.6

St. Jim Newell knows the basics. The werewolves in question were being discussed by

1:34.6

Republican Senate candidate, Herschel Walker, in Georgia.

1:38.7

Given that Walker is in a very tight runoff race for the last seat in Washington, you'd

2:00.8

think it'd be focused on stuff like the economy, election security. But that is not what comes

2:06.2

across here. While this anecdote ends with a message about the importance of faith, it

2:11.6

takes the long road to get there.

2:14.5

You know, I think for people who weren't sure if Herschel Walker was, you know, ready

2:19.7

to be a senator, I don't think that that really convinced them.

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