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It accuses Schlapp of "aggressively fondling" the staffer's "genital area in a sustained fashion" while the staffer was driving Schlapp back to his hotel from a bar in October after a Walker campaign event. “As a direct and proximate result of Mr. Schlapp’s battery upon Mr. Doe, Mr. Doe suffered damages, including without limitation shock, mortification, horror, humiliation, and distress,” it reads. Former Walker campaign senior aides did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press seeking comment Tuesday. However, Mr. Schlapp has had ample time to accept responsibility and apologize for his despicable actions. But instead of doing the right thing, Mr. Schlapp, Ms. Schlapp, and their friends and associates embarked on a ridiculous, spurious and defamatory attempt to smear the reputation of Mr. Schlapp’s victim,” it said.

A staffer on Herschel Walker's Republican Senate campaign has filed a lawsuit against prominent conservative activist Matt Schlapp, accusing Schlapp of groping him during a car ride in Georgia before last year’s midterm election.

The GOP strategy of acclimatizing us to scandal is still working.

A former staffer for Herschel Walker’s failed Senate campaign has accused Matt Schlapp, a top Republican operative and chair of the American Conservative Union—which organizes the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—of sexually assaulting him in October when Schlapp was in Georgia assisting with Walker’s campaign, the Daily Beast reported Friday.

Times columnists Erika D. Smith and Anita Chabria take a look ahead after a year that brought multicultural extremism and hate into the public eye.

Is it purple? Georgia's status as a solid red state has been challenged in recent elections but not everyone is ready to say it's changing hue.

For Georgia voters, it may have seemed like a never-ending midterm cycle, with voters ultimately sending Sen. Raphael Warnock back to Washington.

Yes, Herschel Walker was a bad candidate. But he wasn't the only problem for the GOP.

Georgia's top elections official is urging lawmakers to end general election runoffs, but isn't offering any specific proposals.

Under current Georgia law, if no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote in a primary or general election, the top two finishers advance to a runoff election. In most states, the candidate who earns the greatest number of votes, even if that is far short of a majority, wins a party primary or general election. Georgia went one step further in the 1960s and also required runoffs for general elections, a move the sponsor said was meant to bolster white rule. Burt Jones, who will preside over the state Senate, and representatives of the state Republican and Democratic parties did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday. Changes in a 2021 election law meant that the final day of voting in this year's runoff election was just four weeks after the general election.

Walker believed that his status as a football icon and his ability to connect with people would cancel out any bad press or attack ads, per NBC News.

Walker staffers told Politico that Julie Blanchard Walker stated that her husband should've been attracting more Black support in the Senate race.

Last month, Walker easily defeated Warnock in Johnson County 74%-26%, but the Republican was still taken aback by the result, per The Daily Beast.

Plus, our roundtable breaks down the results of the Georgia Senate runoff.

House races in Texas and Michigan show how the party can attract serious and successful Black candidates.

She's polarizing — and the party needed more help in places where she is less popular.

Conway accused the senators of abandoning Herschel Walker before his defeat.

Republicans are now espousing its virtues, even as the party was losing the Georgia runoff. The two might be related. But how related are they really?

Both political parties have unqualified or incompetent nominees, but only the Republicans’ pose a threat to the nation.

Greene also claimed Herschel Walker's loss in a runoff election was a “disaster in Georgia."

Herschel Walker gave a nice concession speech, talking about the need to believe in America but, in the end, Georgia’s Senate runoff wasn’t that close.

Hint: He "will not be moving to Washington."

The GOP hand-wringing repeatedly came back to their candidate, one of many inexperienced and polarizing nominees who lost battleground races this year.

The Senate candidate’s weak performance relative to his fellow-Republicans provides strong evidence that the biggest impediment to his campaign was himself.

Democrats and Republicans alike are parsing their victories and defeats after an extended midterm campaign season that ended with Tuesday's runoff election. “We're just getting started,” said U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, chair of the state Democratic Party. Biden won the state by just 11,779 votes in 2020, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate in three decades to carry Georgia. Dan McLagan, a veteran Republican campaign leader, argues Georgia isn't truly a tossup state — or, at least, it shouldn't be. Warnock ran a base-plus-plus strategy,” said Democratic strategist Tharon Johnson, noting that Warnock distanced himself from Biden and tagged Walker as unfit for office.

Fresh off Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s runoff victory, Georgia Democrats are embracing -- and Republicans are reluctantly accepting -- the state’s transition from GOP stronghold to premier battleground as the political calendar turns to the 2024 presidential cycle.

Sen. Raphael Warnock's victory means that Democrats will have a clear majority, instead of the 50-50 split of the last two years.

In Georgia, Democrat Raphael Warnock held on to his U.S. Senate seat, defeating Republican candidate Herschel Walker in a special runoff vote.Warnock's reelection is a big win for Democrats, as it gives them a slightly expanded majority in the Senate. It also further supports the idea that Georgia, a historically red state that Democrats managed to flip in 2020, really is becoming more purple.We speak with Republican strategist Janelle King, and Democratic strategist Fred Hicks about the lessons both parties can learn from the results of this contest, as they look ahead to 2024.In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

Raphael Warnock’s victory in swing-state Georgia gives Senate Democrats a 51-49 majority.

Christian Walker, a conservative podcast host, issued a scathing condemnation of his father, Herschel Walker, after his loss to Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock in the runoff election.

Journalists, stop contributing to the erosion of confidence in elections.

“Over the last year, I’ve gotten to know Herschel and have seen first-hand the movement he built in his home state,” NRSC chairman Rick Scott said in a statement.

This is how Walker's loss compares to the other Trump-backed Republicans who cost their party votes.

Turnout was lower in the Georgia Senate runoff than in November’s general election, but Democrat Raphael Warnock more than doubled his lead over Herschel Walker.

Christian Walker remains furious at his father, a transphobe who unsuccessfully ran for the Senate.

The former president’s man in Georgia was political nonsense personified. And he didn’t lose by much.

The race was a test of candidate quality in an era of fierce partisanship, and it remained, until the end, extremely close.

Democrat Raphael Warnock won reelection against Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia. This gives Democrats 51 seats in the Senate.

Democrats hold a key advantage in the five states that will decide the next presidential election.

Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker gave his concession speech to a crowd of supporters Tuesday night, acknowledging Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock's victory.

Georgia elected Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock over Republican Herschel Walker in a Senate runoff. Warnock was able to build up a strong advantage in the early vote, but he also defied party odds as the only Democrat to win statewide in Georgia this election cycle. Nikole Killion reports.

Tuesday’s conviction of the Trump Organization on charges of financial impropriety, coupled with the loss by former President Donald Trump’s candidate in the Georgia Senate runoff, marked one of the worst days for Trump since he announced his presidential candidacy roughly three weeks ago. First came the events in the city where he was born and raised. In New York, the jury that heard the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg deliberated over two days before returning guilty ve

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The party’s obsession with phony scandals deters strong candidates from running and undermines lawmakers with serious policy goals.

Herschel Walker was dogged by allegations during his Georgia Senate campaign, including that he paid for women to have abortions.

The 2022 midterms are finally behind us. Now it's time to take stock and look ahead to what we can expect from lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

That one seat, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, is a bit of a game changer for Democrats. "The truth is it's not a 1% difference," he said. "It's a world of difference."

In the wake of Herschel Walker's Senate loss, aides say his campaign was as flawed as the candidate.

Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock has won the state’s runoff election, defeating Republican Herschel Walker in one of the most hard-fought campaigns of 2022. Warnock is the state’s first Black senator and senior pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Originally elected last year in a special election to replace retired GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson, he has now been chosen to serve a full six-year term in the Senate.

Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker thanked his supporters after his defeat in the runoff race to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

How Warnock did it, plus what it adds to our understanding of the 2022 election (and of Trump).

It was a hard-fought victory for Democrats in an increasingly purple state that was central to the party’s gains last election cycle and is expected to be a key battleground in 2024.

There weren't enough uncounted votes in Republican-leaning areas for GOP challenger Herschel Walker to make up his runoff election night gap with incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. Voting in the runoff began just weeks after the Nov. 8 general election, when neither Warnock and Walker was able to win more than 50% of votes cast. Georgia law requires a runoff four weeks after the general election if no candidate gets more than 50% of the initial vote in the general election. Twin runoff elections in Georgia in early 2021 determined the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, with Warnock and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff taking both seats. The closing weeks of the general and runoff election periods grew increasingly bitter.

There weren't enough uncounted votes in Republican-leaning areas for Republican challenger Herschel Walker to make up his runoff election night gap with incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a runoff election in Georgia.

The extended Senate campaign in Georgia gives Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker a second chance to persuade voters to send them to Washington.

Raphael Warnock is the first Black U.S. senator from Georgia, having broken the color barrier with a special election victory in January 2021.

Georgia's U.S. Senate race between Republican Herschel Walker and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock highlights how sports and college loyalties explain a political battleground.

The Supreme Court is about to confront a new elections case that could dramatically alter voting in 2024 and beyond.

Here are some examples of strange ways elections were decided.

Distaste for Herschel Walker appears to be bolstering Democratic enthusiasm for Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia's Tuesday runoff.

Nonprofit organizations in Georgia are digging deep to ramp up their operations again after Election Day to inform voters about the closely watched runoff race for one of the state's Senate seats.

President Joe Biden made phone calls with fellow Democrats Friday for Sen. Raphael Warnock’s runoff election, delivering hot coffee to volunteers, too, and thanking them for their work.

Emboldened by the results of November’s midterms, abortion rights supporters say they are preparing for even bigger fights in state legislatures and pivotal elections to come.

Barack Obama is urging Georgia Democrats to keep pushing voting turnout for Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Early in-person voting for the nation's last U.S. Senate seat is underway statewide in Georgia.

The extended Senate campaign in Georgia between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, football legend Herschel Walker, has grown increasingly bitter ahead as their Dec. 6 runoff nears.

Georgia counties will be allowed to hold early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

Voters deciding to split their tickets or buck their party altogether may have helped Democrats mount a stronger-than-expected performance in the recent midterm elections.

Democrats have secured their majority in the Senate for the next two years.

Former President Barack Obama will campaign again for Sen. Raphael Warnock as the Georgia Democrat tries to withstand a strong challenge from Republican Herschel Walker.

A Georgia appeals court ruling means that counties can offer early voting this coming Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.

Republicans are engaged in a round of finger-pointing as both parties sift through the results of Democrats’ stronger-than-expected showing in the midterm elections.

Fresh off his commanding re-election victory, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday is playing the role of dutiful Republican soldier campaigning for the first time alongside Senate hopeful Herschel Walker after spending months steering clear of his ticket-mate.

A judge has ruled that Georgia law allows counties to offer early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Republicans insist they’re working together to help Herschel Walker unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in next month's Georgia runoff.

Republicans have won control of the U.S. House.

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has been reelected as Republican leader, quashing a challenge from Sen. Rick Scott of Florida.

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s campaign and Democratic groups are suing the state of Georgia to overturn guidance by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that counties can’t offer Saturday voting ahead of next month’s Senate runoff election.

The Republican challenger to Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada is conceding that he lost the election and won’t contest the result.

The midterm elections were a vindication for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has racked up a series of unexpected legislative victories this year as he has navigated Democrats’ slim 50-50 majority.

Georgia added another title to its growing collection, yet didn't see a whole lot of reason to celebrate.

There was no violence in the midterm elections last week, and many election deniers lost and quietly conceded.

There will be only four weeks before the Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker for U.S. Senate.

With control of the U.S. Senate on the line, Nevada’s protracted ballot count is grinding through a fourth day.

Support for abortion rights drove women to the polls in Tuesday’s elections.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, are pivoting to a second and decisive round of their Senate race in Georgia.

Georgia’s election runoff rules could determine control of the Senate for the second time in a row.

Stacey Abrams and Beto O’Rourke catapulted to Democratic stardom in 2018 by defying expectations and nearly pulling off upsets in Georgia and Texas.

Georgia Republican Brian Kemp is arguing that his no-drama conservative approach is the way forward for the GOP as he celebrates his reelection as governor.

If Tuesday’s vote defied the durable history of presidential parties taking heavy losses in a midterm election, it also reinforced an often-forgotten fact: These campaigns are a patchwork of thousands of races, not a nationwide contest.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker will meet in a Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia after neither reached the general election majority required under state law.

Facing tremendous political headwinds, the Democrats fought Republicans to a stunning midterm draw.

Neither party has reached the necessary threshold to win control in the House or Senate as of early Friday.

Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker were locked in a tight race night in Georgia as elections officials continued to count ballots in the state that determined partisan control of the Senate nearly two years ago and could do so again in these midterm elections.

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has won another term, beating Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams in a rematch of their 2018 race.

Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia is intensifying his critique of Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker ahead of Election Day to say the celebrity athlete is fundamentally unfit for Capitol Hill.

The Carter Center is training nonpartisan observers to monitor midterm elections in Fulton County, Georgia.

Herschel Walker warns that “spiritual warfare” has entangled America and the Republican nominee in Georgia’s Senate race offers himself to voters as a “warrior for God.”.

Every NBA team is doing something to get ready for Election Day on Tuesday.