Commentary: In Race for the Senate, Republicans Not Sending Their Best – By Bill Scher (Real Clear Politics) / June 7, 2022
President Joe Biden’s approval ratings languishing in the low 40s, Democrats behind in polls testing voter preferences for control of the House, and inflation running at 8%. The proverbial bases are loaded as Republicans step up to the plate.
But the emerging GOP lineup of Senate candidates is no Murderers’ Row.
Herschel Walker, after securing Georgia’s Republican nomination last month with minimal difficulty, stumbled out of the general election gate with a rambling Fox News interview, in which he proposed addressing gun violence with “a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that’s looking at social media.” Furthermore, Walker has faced old accusations of domestic abuse which will likely get more attention in the general election than they did in the primary. Democrats will not be shy about any of it. They started last week by releasing an attack ad featuring Walker hawking a quack cure for COVID-19. While Walker held a slight edge in most polls taken earlier in the year, the most recent poll, sampled in late April, has Walker trailing incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock by five points.
