{"id":1631243,"date":"2022-09-02T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T19:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631243"},"modified":"2022-09-02T15:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T19:19:47","slug":"herschel-walker-leads-in-senate-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/herschel-walker-leads-in-senate-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Herschel Walker leads in Senate Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Fherschel-walker-leads-in-senate-poll%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=1631243&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--><h5>Caitlin Sinclair, OAN Political Correspondent, New York<br \/>UPDATED 8:33 AM PT \u2013 Friday, September 2, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>Despite mainstream media narratives and Democrats suggesting Herschel Walker is struggling against incumbent Sen. Rafael Warnock, new polling has the Trump backed candidate leading the midterm race.<\/p>\n<p>Political newcomer and football legend Herschel Walker now holds a slight lead in the Georgia Senate midterm race.<\/p>\n<p>A new Emerson College poll released Tuesday shows the former Georgia Bulldogs football star with a two-point lead over Warnock, in one of the country\u2019s most heated Senate races of the year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2744513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2744513\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2744513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/emrson.png\" alt=\"merson College Polling\/The Hill poll of Georgia\" width=\"1200\" height=\"831\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2744513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerson College Polling\/The Hill poll of Georgia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Georgia has become one of the truest battleground states in the country.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/religion\/religious-landscape-study\/state\/georgia\/party-affiliation\/\"> Pew Research Center shows adults in the state are 41% Republican, 41% Democrat, and 18% third party or independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Walker is one of a handful of Trump-endorsed first-time Republican Senate candidates, also including TV personality Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and author J.D. Vance in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, President Joe Biden maintains a fairly low approval rating of 42% among Georgia voters. His national approval rating also remains at 42%, receiving a subtle boost after signing several Democratic legislations into law.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted Aug. 28-29 and surveyed 600 Georgia voters, weighted by gender, education, race and region. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Sinclair, OAN Political Correspondent, New YorkUPDATED 8:33 AM PT \u2013 Friday, September 2, 2022 Despite mainstream media narratives and Democrats suggesting Herschel Walker is struggling against incumbent Sen. 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