After months of buildup, Georgia’s top candidates for U.S. Senate met on a debate stage Friday night for the first, and perhaps only time, setting up the final stretch of one of the most closely watched races in the country.
Outside the sprawling riverfront hotel venue in Savannah, supporters of Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and his challenger, Republican football star Herschel Walker, gathered on opposite street corners and traded dueling chants. But inside, there were few fireworks.
In a debate that at times turned personal, Walker and Warnock largely hewed to the talking points that have been a staple of their stump speeches – Warnock ticking through his bipartisan bona fides and Walker tying his opponent again and again to President Joe Biden.
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