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<p>The good news is, among the midterm contests that held off a red wave is <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-suggests-joe-biden-raphael-warnock-behind-abortion-allegations-on-fox-news">Georgia’s U.S. Senate race</a>, which by Wednesday morning was too tight to call, almost guaranteeing that the Democratic incumbent, the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/not-all-pastors-do-that-how-rev-raphael-warnocks-used-his-pulpit-to-fight-aids">Rev. Raphael Warnock</a>, will face his Republican rival, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-is-the-saddest-senate-candidate-ive-ever-seen">Herschel Walker</a>, in a December runoff.</p>
<p>The bad news is, it should never have been this close.</p>
<p>From the moment <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-prays-scandals-dont-matter-anymore-in-herschel-walker-race">Walker launched his campaign</a>, it was obvious he was unqualified and unprepared—traits that only became more salient with every stop on the trail. Walker displayed not so much a lack of knowledge about basic topics as he did a surplus of incoherent and nonsensical theories on everything from climate change (“<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/08/herschel-walker-trees-campaign-anti-science-carbon-sequestration-raphael-warnock/">Don’t we have enough trees around here</a>?”) to evolution (“<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/15/georgia-senate-candidate-herschel-walker-questions-evolution-asking-why-are-there-still-apes/">Why are there still apes</a>? <em>Think about it!”</em>).</p>
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Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/Getty
The good news is, among the midterm contests that held off a red wave is Georgia’s U.S. Senate race, which by Wednesday morning was too tight to call, almost guaranteeing that the Democratic incumbent, the Rev. Raphael Warnock, will face his Republican rival, Herschel Walker, in a December runoff.
The bad news is, it should never have been this close.
From the moment Walker launched his campaign, it was obvious he was unqualified and unprepared—traits that only became more salient with every stop on the trail. Walker displayed not so much a lack of knowledge about basic topics as he did a surplus of incoherent and nonsensical theories on everything from climate change (“Don’t we have enough trees around here?”) to evolution (“Why are there still apes? Think about it!”).
