{"id":949285,"date":"2021-11-01T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=949285"},"modified":"2021-11-01T11:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:58:54","slug":"herschel-walker-miles-ahead-in-georgias-gop-senate-primary-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/herschel-walker-miles-ahead-in-georgias-gop-senate-primary-poll-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Herschel Walker Miles Ahead In Georgia\u2019s GOP Senate Primary, Poll Shows"},"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\">22<\/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-miles-ahead-in-georgias-gop-senate-primary-poll-shows%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=949285&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>Herschel Walker, the former NFL star-turned-Republican Senate candidate in Georgia\u2019s primary, is the clear favorite to win the nomination in 2022, a new poll shows.<\/p>\n<p>Internal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000017c-d8df-d3c9-a77c-dbdf871e0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polling<\/a> shows 74% of Georgia GOP primary voters supporting Walker, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/herschel-walker-georgia-senate-bid-2022-raphael-warnock-jon-ossoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced his bid<\/a> in August with the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/donald-trump-herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-kelly-loeffler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vocal support<\/a> of former President Donald Trump. Walker led his closest opponent, Gary Black, by 68 points, while 16% said they remained undecided.<\/p>\n<p>The poll\u2019s release comes after multiple high-profile Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, endorsed Walker despite his past, which includes <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lifestyle-sports-nfl-college-football-coronavirus-pandemic-5e2875eec11e93f9a3bf1fc859137ff8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegations<\/a> of domestic violence and death threats.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7312589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7312589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former football player-turned-political candidate Herschel Walker attended a World Series game with Donald and Melania Trump on Sunday. (Michael Zarrilli\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Walker\u2019s support extended to both self-described moderate and conservative Republicans, 61% and 81% of whom said they would vote for him. If Walker wins the 2022 primary, he would face Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, who won a special election this past January. His and fellow Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff\u2019s twin victories gave the party 50 seats in the Senate and complete control of Congress and the White House as a result.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/25\/chuck-schumer-tim-scott-democrats-senate-joe-biden-full-government-control-wish-list-stalling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Democrats Struggle To Pass Many Agenda Items Despite Full Control Of Congress)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans are trying to retake the chamber in 2022, and McConnell called Walker \u201cthe only one who can unite the party, defeat Senator Warnock, and help us take back the Senate\u201d in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/10\/27\/herschel-walker-mitch-mcconnells-endorsement-517309\">Politico<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted from Oct. 11-14, before top Republicans gave Walker their public support. OnMessage Inc., the GOP consulting firm that conducted it, surveyed 400 likely Republican primary voters, and the poll has a 4.9-point margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herschel Walker, the former NFL star-turned-Republican Senate candidate in Georgia\u2019s primary, is the clear favorite to win the nomination in 2022, a new poll shows.Internal polling shows 74% of Georgia &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949285","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\/949285","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949285\/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=949285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}