{"id":1436595,"date":"2022-04-13T23:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T03:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436595"},"modified":"2022-04-13T23:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T03:44:51","slug":"poll-republican-herschel-walker-shows-5-point-lead-over-democrat-sen-raphael-warnock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-republican-herschel-walker-shows-5-point-lead-over-democrat-sen-raphael-warnock\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Republican Herschel Walker Shows 5-Point Lead over Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-republican-herschel-walker-shows-5-point-lead-over-democrat-sen-raphael-warnock%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436595&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Republican Herschel Walker holds a five-point lead over incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in a hypothetical matchup for\u00a0Georgia\u2019s\u00a0U.S. Senate seat, according to a recent poll.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Locals Peach State poll, conducted by Big Data Poll for April 2022, showed that\u00a0Walker holds a five-point lead, with 46.7 percent of the respondents supporting him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In comparison, 41.8 percent of the respondents said they would vote for\u00a0Warnock, while 11.6 percent said they were still undecided.<\/p>\n<p>Locals Peach State <a href=\"https:\/\/application.marketsight.com\/app\/ItemView.aspx?SharedFor=director%40bigdatapoll.com&#038;SharedBy=34090&#038;id=74772179-a7cb-4808-99bb-ae76011d0a93\">poll<\/a> by Big Data Poll was\u00a0conducted between April 9 and 11. The questions were asked to\u00a0931 likely voters in Georgia voters and saw a\u00a03.1 percent margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>The party breakdown of the poll was\u00a037.9 percent Republican respondents, 33.9 percent Democrat respondents, and 28.2 percent independent respondents or \u201cother.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In recent months, the race has heated up to be one of the more competitive and watching Senate races. While the Senate is equally divided, 50 to 50, races such as this one could decide the upper chamber\u2019s majority and minority parties.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20559863\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1238904698.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20559863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1238904698.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 03: Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) questions U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as he testifies at a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the Fed&#039;s \" Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) questions U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Capitol Hill on March 3, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tom Williams-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As this poll showed Walker leading by five points, one of the more recent polls also showed\u00a0Walker with a four-point lead over Warnock. In the\u00a0Emerson College Polling and the\u00a0<em>Hill\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/06\/poll-herschel-walker-leads-raphael-warnock-tight-georgia-senate-race\/\">poll<\/a>,\u00a0Walker had 49 percent support compared to Warnock\u2019s 45 percent support, with six percent of respondents undecided on a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>That poll was conducted between\u00a0April 1 to 3, nearly a week before the previous poll. The\u00a0questions were asked to\u00a01,013 registered voters and\u00a0saw a three percent margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, President Joe Biden attempted to indirectly meddle in the Senate race by kicking\u00a0Walker, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/24\/youre-going-have-fire-me-herschel-walker-mehmet-oz-refuse-biden-demand-resign-presidential-council-sports\/\">appointed<\/a> by former President Donald Trump, off the\u00a0President\u2019s Council on Sports, Fitness &#038; Nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>Walker,\u00a0a former University of Georgia football star and Heisman Trophy winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/03\/24\/herschel-walker-presidential-fitness-council-firing-threat-meant-to-throw-campaign-off-track\/\">hammered<\/a> Biden, saying it was an attempt to throw his campaign\u00a0\u201coff track\u201d and called the effort unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s what they thought they could do \u2014 throw me off track. But this letter is not going to do that,\u201d Walker stated. \u201cThe way they throw me off track is they\u2019re going to have to show me these policies they\u2019re making right now is going to be great for Georgia and great for America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>@JacobMBliss<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Herschel Walker holds a five-point lead over incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in a hypothetical matchup for\u00a0Georgia\u2019s\u00a0U.S. Senate seat, according to a recent poll. The\u00a0Locals Peach State poll, conducted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}