Distaste for Walker provides tailwind for Warnock in Georgia

Herschel Walker, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate for Georgia, is shown in this file photograph speaking at a primary watch party on May 23, 2022, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/Akili-Casundria Ramsess, File)

It might go without saying that Democrats generally vote against Republicans. But in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff, it can hardly be overstated how much Democratic voters — and others — are driven by not wanting Republican challenger Herschel Walker to be their U.S. senator.

Ask Raphael Warnock’s voters what they think about the election, and it’s often criticism of Walker that first comes tumbling out.

“You’ve got a very ignorant, ignorant, ignorant fellow that’s running in Herschel Walker,” said Dennis Paris, an entertainer who lives in the Atlanta suburb of Jonesboro and voted for Warnock this week in Morrow. “I can’t see going through another thing like we had with an ignorant Trump making decisions for us, not caring about the people.”