The event, which was not listed connected his nationalist schedule, was 1 of astatine slightest 2 the Republican Senate campaigner scheduled successful the last play earlier Election Day connected Tuesday.
Walker was known for his jam-packed docket passim the superior play but successful the past 2 weeks, he’s had less nationalist events than his opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.). Walker precocious picked up the gait with an “Evict Warnock” autobus tour.
He has besides avoided taking questions from reporters but for interviews with Fox News, often with a surrogate specified arsenic GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham astatine his side.
In a abbreviated speech with POLITICO connected his run bus, Walker denied that his run squad was hiding him excessively overmuch from voters and the press, saying, “Nope, they haven’t.”
Walker, arsenic helium does astatine astir events, received a agelong enactment of imaginable Georgia voters for photos, handshakes and abbreviated greetings. At the UGA tailgate event, helium archetypal started gathering voters 1 by 1 wrong his autobus due to the fact that of the rainfall earlier moving extracurricular nether a tent.
Walker is challenging Warnock successful what is Georgia’s 3rd Senate runoff predetermination successful little than 2 years. Unlike the 2020 runoff, however, power of the Senate is already decided. Both parties person disquieted that this could alteration information to crook retired to vote, and some person launched an all-hands-on-deck effort to crook retired voters utilizing extracurricular organizing groups and fly-in visits from nationalist figures.
Walker said helium hasn’t seen immoderate deficiency of enthusiasm from voters.
“They’re not [less motivated] due to the fact that they cognize close present that the House volition beryllium adjacent truthful they don’t privation to recognize what is happening close now. You get the House, you get the committees. You get each the committees even, they conscionable stall things wrong there. So if we support a cheque connected Joe Biden, we conscionable going to support a cheque connected him,” Walker said.
The House volition beryllium controlled by a constrictive Republican bulk adjacent twelvemonth and volition not beryllium evenly divided betwixt some parties.
In a last question successful the abbreviated interview, POLITICO asked wherefore successful what was expected to beryllium a question twelvemonth for Republicans, Walker ended up successful a runoff.
“We’re successful a runoff due to the fact that they walk a batch of money,” Walker said of Warnock, who has raised much wealth than immoderate different Senate campaigner this year. “I deliberation everybody saw that. They walk a batch of wealth but yet they ne'er speech astir issues. They ne'er talked astir policy, they ne'er talked astir immoderate of the policies. They conscionable walk money.”
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