What to expect in Georgia’s runoff election
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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For the fifth time in two years, Georgians will cast a ballot for or against Raphael G. Warnock, and despite Democratic control of the Senate, the stakes of this race for both parties are big.
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| 0:00.0 | You must know that I want to work for you. |
| 0:07.0 | I clearly want this job, not for me, but because it gives me a chance to continue my life |
| 0:16.1 | project of public service in a new way. |
| 0:18.6 | Here's why you know I want this job. |
| 0:21.0 | This is the fifth time. |
| 0:25.0 | My name has been on the ballot in less than two years for the same dog-owned job. |
| 0:37.1 | On Tuesday, Georgians will cast their vote in the election for US Senate. |
| 0:42.0 | And yet again, Reverend Raphael Warnock is on the ballot. |
| 0:46.3 | His opponent is Republican Herschel Walker, the one-time star running back for the University |
| 0:51.7 | of Georgia football team. |
| 0:53.6 | And even though Walker and Warnock ran against one another in the midterm election less than |
| 0:57.9 | a month ago, the circumstances around this race have shifted dramatically. |
| 1:03.3 | We already know that Democrats are going to have a majority because they have the 50-50 |
| 1:08.7 | with Vice President Harris being that type-breaking vote. |
| 1:11.8 | Sabrina Rodriguez is a political reporter at the post, and she has been spending a lot |
| 1:15.7 | of time in Georgia. |
| 1:17.4 | So the stakes of the race at a national level changed once we had the results out of |
| 1:21.9 | Arizona and Nevada. |
| 1:23.4 | However, for a lot of voters that I talk to in Georgia, it's not about that anymore. |
| 1:28.0 | It's about who they think is the right fit to represent them in Washington, who they |
| 1:32.6 | think represents, you know, Georgia values. |
| 1:37.2 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
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