[ad_1] CNN — A Republican strategist alleges that Matt Schlapp, the influential chairman of the American Conservative Union, groped and fondled his groin as he drove Schlapp back to an Atlanta hotel several weeks before the November midterm election. The strategist, a male in his late thirties who was working …
Read More »Raphael Warnock: Sky-high Black turnout fueled his previous win. Will Georgia do it again?
[ad_1] Atlanta CNN — Former UN Ambassador Andrew Young rode his scooter alongside Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, Martin Luther King III and a fervent crowd of marchers on a recent Sunday through a southwest Atlanta neighborhood. The group stopped at an early polling location to vote, forming a line with …
Read More »Opinion: The sign that says nothing — and everything
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Sign up to get this weekly column as a newsletter. We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. CNN — “We were the people who were not in the papers,” says the narrator of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s …
Read More »What we know about Georgia voters ahead of Senate runoff
[ad_1] CNN — For the past two years, the eyes of the political world keep turning back to Georgia. And for the second time in two years, voters in this key state will choose their senator in a runoff election, which this time will determine whether Democrats expand on their …
Read More »Early voting surges in Georgia as Walker and Warnock make their final pitches to swing voters
[ad_1] CNN — The compressed timeframe of Georgia’s Senate runoff has juiced single-day turnout across the state, which has now broken early voting records on two consecutive days, a top Georgia election official said, as the race between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker enters the homestretch. Gabriel …
Read More »Early voting begins in some Georgia counties as Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker sprint to December 6 runoff
[ad_1] CNN — A week-long early voting period begins Saturday in some Georgia counties as Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker enter a week-and-a-half, post-Thanksgiving sprint to their December 6 runoff election. Unlike the 2021 runoffs, control of the Senate is not on the line, with Democrats …
Read More »Opinion: The three phone calls Herschel Walker needs to make
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Geoff Duncan, a Republican, is the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. He is the author of “GOP 2.0: How the 2020 Election Can Lead to a Better Way Forward for America’s Conservative Party.” The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion articles on …
Read More »How the Georgia Senate runoff will work
[ad_1] Washington CNN — If Georgia voters were hoping to avoid talking politics at Thanksgiving, the state’s tightly contested Senate race has other plans. Neither Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock nor Republican challenger Herschel Walker surpassed the 50% threshold needed to win the race outright Tuesday evening, CNN projects, forcing a …
Read More »Opinion: A really bad night for some high-profile Trump-backed candidates
[ad_1] CNN — CNN Opinion contributors share their thoughts on the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a clear message to every Republican voter Tuesday night: My way is the path to a national majority, and …
Read More »Exit polls: What voters are thinking as America goes to the polls
[ad_1] CNN — Read below for analysis of CNN’s preliminary 2022 national exit polls. More than three-quarters of Ohio voters said the nation’s economy was “poor” or “not so good,” according to the preliminary results of the Ohio Exit Poll conducted for CNN and other news networks by Edison Research. …
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