– I often say that a vote is a kind of prayer, for the society we want. You have said such a prayer in this election, Raphael Warnock (D) said as he gave thanks for the victory that gives him a seat in the Senate in Washington for the next six years. Photo: CARLOS BARRIA / Reuters Warnock was a pastor in civil rights icon Martin Luther King’s old church in Atlanta before he became a senator in 2020. In recent months, he has been fighting a former football star to represent Georgia in Washington. In what has been the 2022 election’s most expensive election campaign. With Warnock’s narrow victory in Georgia last night, the Democrats have made a historically good midterm election despite losing their majority in the House of Representatives in November. Herschel Walker admits defeat. Have faith in our elected leaders, Walker said from the podium last night. Photo: ALYSSA POINTER / Reuters Joe Biden becomes the first president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944 to have all of the party’s sitting senators re-elected in a by-election. This happens even though Biden has low approval ratings and the US is in an economic crisis. President Joe Biden was clearly pleased when things went towards victory in Georgia last night. We are going to win, he said on the journey home from Arizona. Photo: JONATHAN ERNST / Reuters Trump’s bad candidates The reason is probably Donald Trump. Warnock’s opponent, the former football star Herschel Walker, was pushed forward by Trump. Trump believed a black candidate would secure black voters even though Walker had a total lack of political experience. After all, he had supported Trump’s lies about election fraud in 2020. Former President Donald Trump recruited Herschel Walker. Here, the two met at an event in Perry, Georgia, on September 25, 2021. Photo: DUSTIN CHAMBERS / Reuters Walker’s loss is another loss for Trump. The mid-term elections went badly for him. In all four key swing states, the Republican candidates for the Senate were launched and promoted by Trump. All four lost. Shortly after the midterm elections, Donald Trump launched his own candidacy for the White House. Several of his selected candidates lost regular elections this autumn. Photo: JONATHAN ERNST / Reuters In Pennsylvania, Republicans lost the seat of a retiring senator, when TV doctor Mehmet Oz lost to Democrat John Fetterman. In Arizona, Nevada and thus now in Georgia, the candidates Trump had put forward also lost against sitting Democratic senators. A country divided in two Raphael Warnock is the first black Democratic senator from the southern state of Georgia, and his victory means a lot in a historical perspective. However, he won with just under 51 percent of the vote. Many thought he should have won by more, and had the Republican candidate not been so bad, the party might have won. Because the state of Georgia is split down the middle politically and was one of the places where there was the most noise after the election two years ago because it was so even. Now in November, incumbent Republican Governor Brian Kemp remained in office, but the party’s voters did not turn out for Herschel Walker to the same extent in yesterday’s runoff. What the election result in Georgia means: With last night’s victory, the Democrats get a narrow majority in the Senate of 51. This means that they can tolerate one of their most conservative senators, Joe Manchin from West Virginia, voting with the Republicans. It also makes it a little easier to get the appointments President Biden makes approved. But the Republicans have taken over the majority in the House of Representatives after Christmas, and that will make it impossible to get much policy done in Washington unless the two parties cooperate. Are they turning their backs on Trump? What happened last night has to say for Donald Trump’s new presidential election campaign is probably the most important question now. The hold he has had on the party ever since he reluctantly stepped down as president last year is costing dearly. Now it has cost a Senate majority the Republicans could have secured with other less extreme candidates. Many so-called choice deniers have done badly. At the same time, Trump continues to argue that the 2020 election was stolen from him. And so far in his solitary 2024 election campaign, he has chosen to move even further to the right than last time. At the weekend he said the constitution should have been set aside at the election two years ago. And yesterday a court in New York found Trump’s company, The Trump organization, guilty of tax evasion on 17 charges. The Republican Party will soon have to choose whether to turn their backs on Trump for good. With them on the road, they get the barely three-minute long speech of a former football player from a stage in Georgia last night. When Herschel Walker admitted the election defeat, he did not say a word about election fraud, election denial or Donald Trump. – Continue to believe in our elected politicians. Stand together. Don’t let anyone separate you, said Herschel Walker.
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