Graham, Newt Gingrich, Hayley Barber and Todd Ricketts were reportedly co-chairs of the finance committee of Walker’s campaign, which is still growing, during Thursday’s conference call. , but included seven senators and Senator-elect Mark Wayne Mullin (R-Okla.), according to documents obtained by POLITICO.
senator. Rand Paul will lead Walker’s liberal outreach during the finale. Liberal candidate for November. Election 8 took 2% of the vote, preventing Walker or the senator. Raphael Warnock gets more than 50% from avoiding runoff.
Graham and Gingrich told those on a conference call, Donald Trump and the Florida governor. Ron DeSantis is expected to provide support for the Walker campaign.
Following a disappointing midterm election, with prominent Republicans across the country accusing Trump this week, Senate Republicans — already divided over how to run this year — must salvage much of the row after the runoff. Scott plans to challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for leadership, but is not now after failing to win key Pennsylvania and New Hampshire seats and blowing his chances in what should have been a red-hot election. Very likely to do so.
Shortly after the call, the Republican Senate office received an email from the NRSC with talking points about Herschel Walker and the Georgia runoff, and seeking members’ help over the next few weeks to serve as Walker’s. agent. “We have some losses, but we are still on track to win the majority,” read one talking point in the email.
Scott has donated $500,000 from his leadership PAC to a Walker-supporting super PAC in Georgia and has spent most of the past two days on the phone with donors. and Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer began making calls to Georgia in person Thursday to raise funds, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Republicans have begun an “ALL HANDS ON DECK” call for Georgia, as was the case with the Louisiana GOP seeking help from GOP supporters in an email Thursday. The state is asking members to volunteer to knock on doors in Georgia or send phone calls and texts on Walker’s home.
In Ohio, JD Vance, who won Tuesday’s Senate race, began using his list of supporters to raise donations for Walker — money that would be split equally between the two campaigns.
Super PACs have begun returning to Georgia’s radio and television channels, with a major Democratic group joining the state early. This weekend, American Bridge will launch seven-figure TV, radio and digital programming in the state targeting voters outside the Atlanta media market.
The campaign will be launched with a pair of TV commercials first shared with POLITICO. The first ad featured a series of women, calling Walker a liar on a range of issues. In the ad, the two women specifically referred to reports that Walker paid his then-girlfriend to have an abortion.
“Through these ads, American Bridge is once again trying to help Georgia voters understand that Herschel Walker’s hypocrisy and lies make him dangerous and unfit for public office, especially since the outcome of this runoff could determine control or expansion of the Senate. Democratic majority,” Group President Jessica Floyd said in a statement.
The group’s second ad featured a Marietta, Georgia woman who said she had “voted for a Republican candidate in the past” before saying she didn’t think she could do it anymore, reinforcing the scammer’s Subject: “I would vote for Herschel Walker, but I wouldn’t vote for him,” the ad ends.
Both ads are scheduled to begin airing in the state on Saturday.
While pre-election polls showed it was unclear whether two scandals in October — involving two former partners who said Walker urged and paid women to have abortions — were enough to sink Walker, Election Day results showed Walker trailing the Republicans. Party governors nearly 5 percentage points. Brian Kemp.
Republicans have also started to hype it up. The NRSC began re-running TV ads on Thursday, along with a new ad attacking Warnock, according to ad-tracking firm AdImpact.
Meanwhile, vote counts are taking place in Arizona and Nevada.
In Arizona, there are still hundreds of thousands of unvoted votes. As of Friday morning, the secretary of state’s office expected more than 500,000 ballots to be counted in the state.
The biggest votes remain in Maricopa County, the state’s largest county, which still has about 350,000 ballots to be counted. Election officials in the county had said before the election that they hoped to count the vast majority of votes by the Friday after the election. But at a news conference Thursday night, they acknowledged that wasn’t the case.
“The goals have changed,” said Bill Gates, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. He said the county had to recalibrate its expectations due to a wave of mail-in ballots delivered at polling centers on Election Day.
Those ballots — about 290,000 of them, 70 percent more than the number of ballots turned in at polling stations on election day — are slowing down the count because the time-consuming process of validating them. If historical voting patterns remain the same, the final batch of votes is expected to come primarily from Republicans.
Gates didn’t specify how long it would take to count all the votes, but he said he expected the daily tabulated results to be about the same as those released on Wednesday and Thursday, with between 62,000 and 78,000 votes in the end.
Those ballots will also be the last to be counted, because Maricopa and many other electoral jurisdictions use a “first-in, first-out” method of counting ballots that arrive earlier. Counting votes this way is the historical norm in Maricopa, where elections are conducted by a Republican-dominated county board of supervisors and Republican county recorders.
Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Cary Lake used the extended timeline and the fact that the ballots arrived later to be counted to attack election officials and lay the groundwork for whether she would lose.
Speaking on Newsmax on Thursday, she accused election officials of “holding back” and “trying to delay the inevitable” in the campaign. She also indicated that legal action may be taken in the future, noting that she has “a lot of lawyers” on call.
“Frankly, it’s offensive to Cary Lake to say that these people behind me are working 14 to 18 hours and they’re rolling slowly,” Gates said at a news conference on Thursday. “
Nevada also has a large number of votes pending, with at least tens of thousands more to be counted. Many of those votes came from Clark County, the state’s largest. Clark County voter registration officer and chief elections officer Joe Gloria said Thursday that he expects the county’s vote count to be completed by Saturday.
But if the gap is very small, calls for a Senate race could be delayed until next week. Voters with defective ballots — unsigned ballots, or election officials unable to verify the signature on the ballot — can be “cured” by voters by Monday by confirming their ballots with election officials. Provisional ballots, those from voters registered at polling places, won’t take effect until Wednesday.
Burgess Everett contributed to this report.