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Republicans are catching up in money and polls as they zero in on Georgia and Nevada as their best shots to flip a seat and win the upper chamber.

A raft of polls in battleground states shows potential governor-Senate splits that seem to map to perceptions of candidate quality.

GOP billionaire donors are souring on Senate candidates endorsed by Donald Trump and instead are giving to groups aligned with Republican leadership.

Georgia's election races are as close as ever with Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in pole position with under six weeks to go

Former Dallas Cowboys running back and Georgia senatorial candidate Herschel Walker slammed Democrat Raphael G. Warnock during a Fox News interview on 'Hannity.'

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock is urging the U.S. Treasury secretary to use “flexibility” in defining how automakers and consumers qualify for a revised tax credit for Americans buying electric vehicles.

Herschel Walker's struggles and embarrassments have grabbed headlines. But they show the GOP's deeper problem with an increasingly diverse, urban Georgia.

Bernard: To voters, Walker vs. Warnock in U.S. Senate race is about GOP vs. Democrats

An Atlanta Journal Constitution poll found that Republicans are leading on the generic congressional ballot in Georgia, while Walker holds a slim lead over Warnock in the Senate race.

An Atlanta Journal Constitution poll found that Republicans are leading on the generic congressional ballot in Georgia, while Walker holds a slim lead over Warnock in the Senate race.

After his rally in Martinez, U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker indicated he may reconsider debating Raphael Warnock in Atlanta and Macon.

Republican candidates have given wildly differing responses to South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s plan to ban abortion nationwide at 15 weeks.

ATLANTA — (AP) — Georgia voters will see at least one fall debate between Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. Warnock on Tuesday evening accepted Walker’s proposal for an Oct. 14 debate in Savannah, but the senator renewed his call for an additional debate in either Macon or Atlanta. “If you see him, tell him to put his big man pants on” and agree to a debate, Walker said at a recent campaign stop, to the delight of his supporters. Walker has hammered Warnock as a White House lackey and said the contest is about who best represents Georgia. Warnock has hit Walker as unqualified and framed the race as being about “who’s ready to represent Georgia."

Georgia voters will see at least one fall debate between Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

Todd Kirkland/Getty ImagesThe Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Georgia, Herschel Walker, last week sent out what might be the saddest tweet in the history of American politics. It’s emblematic of a campaign that is among the saddest in recent political history.While criticizing ⁦his opponent, incumbent Democratic Sen. Rafael Warnock, for “calling law enforcement ‘thugs and bullies,’” Walker tweeted that he “was proud to serve the blue as an Honorary Agent and Special Deputy Sheriff of Cobb

Campaign advisers are casting aside the old principle that an incumbent would rarely agree to more than one or two debates against a challenger.

And in Arizona, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Katie Hobbs has declined a televised debate with Republican Kari Lake. For some Republicans, eschewing debates is a chance to sidestep a media structure some in the party deride as biased and align with Donald Trump, who has blasted presidential debates. Some Democrats, including Hobbs, have pointed to raucous GOP debates from the primary season as a reason to avoid tangling with their opponents. Fetterman’s campaign said he will participate in a televised debate in October but gave no other details, including why he would agree to just one debate. Whitmer announced last month she would participate in two statewide, televised debates, a decision her campaign said was “consistent with past precedent."

With the fall campaign rapidly approaching, the time-honored tradition of debates as a forum for voters to evaluate candidates may be the latest casualty of the nation’s polarized political climate.

Brian Kemp and Senate nominee Herschel Walker — don’t say much about the 2020 election or the man who lost it. Trump's serial lies that the election was stolen cast a pall nationwide. But nowhere is the dynamic trickier than Georgia, epicenter of Trump's plan after he personally pressured Raffensperger to "find" more votes. District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, is focusing on Trump's pressure campaign against Raffensperger, Kemp and others to ignore voters' will. "The 2020 election was rigged and stolen ... by people who got into office through cheating and through fraud," Trump falsely declared last week in Pennsylvania.

The shadow of Donald Trump's tampering with the 2020 election in Georgia lands differently for the various Republicans running for office in 2022.

EMERSON, Ga. — (AP) — Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker may be getting closer to debating in the state's U.S. Senate race. Warnock said Wednesday that he will participate in the debate Walker prefers if Walker agrees to another forum Warnock wants, the latest turn in a monthslong debate over debates. But later Wednesday, Walker and a spokesperson wouldn't answer direct questions about whether Walker would agree to any other matchups. The Nexstar debate promised a live audience, which Walker said was key, and said candidates would get the question topics in advance. He said, ‘I’m going to debate,'" Walker said of Warnock.

Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker may be getting closer to debating in the state’s U.S. Senate race.

The great red wave is looming.

It's Donald Trump's first rally of the general election season, a Saturday night event in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with Republican candidates in the pivotal state.

Fox NewsSen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday passed up a chance to go into detail about the strengths of GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker, opting to say only that he will win when asked on Fox News to talk him up. Appearing on Jesse Watters Primetime, Graham instead launched a series of attacks against Walker’s opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA).Fill-in host Brian Kilmeade began by mentioning an Emerson College poll released earlier in the day showing Walker with a 2-point lead, which is

Georgia Democrats had a contested primary for governor four years ago because the party old guard didn’t believe in Stacey Abrams.

KENNESAW, Ga. — (AP) — Republican Herschel Walker has plenty to say about how his Democratic rival, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, does his job in Washington. The broader approach tracks the way many political challengers — including Warnock two years ago — try to put incumbents on the defensive. But Lake said the campaign recognized Walker has to “engage with as many Georgians as possible” to defeat Warnock. Yet in that campaign, Warnock did tout his activism as a Baptist pastor on Medicaid expansion and voting rights, holding forth on policy details. After accusing Warnock of supporting the Inflation Reduction Act without “reading the bill,” Walker admitted he’d read only “some of the bill” himself.

Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker has plenty to say about how his Democratic rival, Sen. Raphael Warnock, does his job in Washington.

Republican Herschel Walker has plenty to say about how his Democratic rival, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, does his job in Washington. A former football star and friend of former President Donald Trump, Walker tells voters he supports agriculture, veterans and law enforcement. The broader approach tracks the way many political challengers — including Warnock two years ago — try to put incumbents on the defensive.

The actor responds to the U.S. Senate hopeful's latest baffling claim.

On Sunday, the GOP nominee for a Georgia Senate seat said, "A lot of the money is going into trees. Don’t we have enough trees around here?"

The Republican Party has made clear that it has no place for Black activism. Yet Black candidates for Congress are running in the G.O.P. in record numbers.

“You know that some of this money is going into trees?” the Republican Senate candidate said at an event Sunday.

McConnell now suggests Republicans might not pick up the one seat needed to re-take the Senate.

The debate over a limited set of circumstances in which abortion could be legal is causing divisions among Republican lawmakers in some states.

With primaries nearing the end, the stage is set for a nail-biter of a campaign for control of Congress.

The new ad features old footage of Cindy Grossman Angelis describing how the Georgia Senate candidate held a gun to her head and threatened to shoot her.

Walker's campaign said Wednesday that the candidate had accepted an invitation from Nexstar Media Group and other television stations to debate Warnock in Savannah on Oct. 14. Walker has been proclaiming his readiness to debate Warnock for months, but his campaign in recent weeks has expressed concern over whether the formats and moderators would be fair to Walker. Warnock and Democrats have been relentlessly attacking Walker as unqualified and untrustworthy after months of negative news stories, and polls show Warnock narrowly ahead, increasing pressure on Walker. Warnock accepted invitations to three well-established Georgia debates in Atlanta, Savannah, and Macon to be broadcast statewide, after Herschel Walker said he would debate Rev. Laurie Strauss of the Atlanta Press Club said the club has been in talks with the Walker campaign.

Georgia Republican Herschel Walker has accepted an invitation in his U.S. Senate race to debate Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.

Democrats are celebrating a stunning victory for abortion rights in Republican stronghold Kansas as proof that the issue could turn back a Republican wave this fall.

The bad news? So was David S. Goyer.

Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock is running for his first full Senate term, pitching himself as a lawmaker willing to do whatever it takes to help his state.

The SurveyUSA poll showed Sen. Warnock with 48% support among likely voters in the Peach State, while Walker received 39% support.

Kemp at times contends that Georgia's economy is good and the national economy is bad, even though Georgia voters only experience one economy. Abrams said Thursday that Kemp's division between Georgia and the national economy is “mathematically and economically impossible," and that Kemp has "woefully underperformed" at helping people. "But if you were struggling in Georgia, Brian Kemp has done absolutely nothing to help you move forward.”The economy also is central in Georgia's closely contested Senate race. Warnock couches many proposals as meant to fight higher prices, including seeking a suspension of the federal gas tax and price limits on insulin. He's already pushed through more than $1 billion in tax rebates and has suspended the collection of Georgia's gas tax since March, at the cost of roughly $150 million a month.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is taking aim at what he calls the “Biden recession” and spreading blame to Democrat Stacey Abrams while at the same time arguing his own state's economy is good.

To win reelection, Democratic Sen. Warnock may need crossover votes who also supported Republican Gov. Kemp. That's not as unlikely as it may sound.

When the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established a right to abortion, it sparked legal changes and court challenges in states nationwide.

Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet should be coasting to reelection. But the prospect of a big red wave gives Republicans hope,

Election 2022 Georgia Senate Republican U.S. Senate nominee Herschel Walker talks with a voter at a livestock auction in Athens, Ga., Wednesday, July 20, 2022, as Walker campaigns to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow) (Bill Barrow)ALTO, Georgia — (AP) — Republican U.S. Senate nominee Herschel Walker commiserated as north Georgia farmers bemoaned environmental regulations and rising costs of doing business. He showed some evidence of those sessions in turning most any topic back to Warnock, Biden and the economy. When farmers complained about the Biden administration’s advocacy of electric farming vehicles, Walker didn’t just focus on cost but questioned the technology itself. As for broader attacks about inflation and the economy, Miller added, Walker has a convenient ally: “It’s all true.”Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.

After a bruising opening to his general election campaign for the U.S. Senate, Georgia Republican Herschel Walker is trying to deflect attention back onto Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Walker now desperately needs to win over those Kemp supporters, voters who have shown themselves willing to support the Republican governor but not Walker himself. A point that should concern Walker’s campaign is this: That gap between Kemp and Walker was recorded two months ago. “People are saying they want something different,” Walker told reporters. When Walker was asked Wednesday if he’ll campaign with statewide candidates like Kemp, Walker made a vague comment about it and then returned to launching attacks on Warnock. “To be clear, Herschel Walker still isn’t committing to debates,” Quentin Fulks, Warnock’s campaign manager, said in a statement.

His Senate candidacy is a clear example of the warping effect that Donald Trump has had on the Republican Party nationally.

In key states, polls show Trump-backed GOP nominees are failing to capitalize upon an environment that favors their side. And they’re precisely the candidates some in the party worried about.

The incumbent is facing Republican Herschel Walker in November.

We shouldn't battle pollution because our good air will just "decide" to go to China, the Trump-backed Georgian told supporters, drawing massive blowback.

Four months from Election Day, Republicans are struggling in several of the marquee races in the fight for control of the upper chamber.

Walker repeatedly lied to his staff about his undisclosed kids — even to his own campaign manager, according to The Daily Beast.

The House hearings on the violent near-coup at the Capitol is the most exciting television since “Game of Thrones.”

"I understand the sincere concerns. But those are religious concerns, or often concerns driven by personal morality," Abrams said in a CNN interview.

Democrats believe fight for abortion rights will galvenize voters ahead of November.

Republican Sen_ Rick Scott of Florida is criticizing the Texas GOP's new party platform for not being “inclusive” when it described homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice.”.

Election 2022 Georgia Senate FILE - Herschel Walker, GOP candidate for the US Senate for Georgia, speaks at a primary watch party May 23, 2022, at the Foundry restaurant in Athens, Ga. Senate candidate Herschel Walker said Saturday, June 18, that he “never denied" the existence of children he had not previously disclosed publicly, telling conservative Christians that “they knew the truth.” (AP Photo/Akili-Casundria Ramsess, File) (Akili-Casundria Ramsess)NASHVILLE, Tenn. — (AP) — Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker said Saturday that he "never denied" the existence of children he hadn't publicly disclosed before, telling conservative Christians that his kids "knew the truth." Speaking before a friendly audience at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual “Road to Majority” conference, Walker said the revelations about his children had only emboldened his campaign. You know, I’ve never denied any of my kids and I love them more than I love anything," he said. “And they didn’t do anything, which just makes me want to fight harder because I’m tired of people misleading the American people. I’m tired of people misleading my family.”Walker's comments came after The Daily Beast reported that the former football star has four children, including two sons and a daughter whom he had never discussed publicly.

Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker says he “never denied” the existence of children he hadn't publicly disclosed before and he's telling conservative Christians that his kids "knew the truth.”.

"Get home and raise your kids!" Christian Walker lectures men as the public learns his own dad has three other children.

GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker and his supporters are not bothered by back-to-back revelations about children he fathered but doesn't talk about publicly.

Walker, a Trump-backed candidate who has derided absent fathers, began the week with only 1 acknowledged child. He's changed that twice this week.

Mackenzie Salmon and Andy Nesbitt look at Serena Williams' chances at Wimbledon this summer.

The Georgia Senate candidacy of Herschel Walker has been promoted Donald Trump. Walker confirmed he has at least three kids out of wedlock.

Dozens of Republican candidates who sought Donald Trump’s endorsement have spent months parroting the former president's baseless claims of 2020 election fraud.

Election 2022 Georgia Senate Black Candidates FILE - Herschel Walker speaks to members of the media after his Republican Primary win on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta. He’s supported the child and continues to do so,” Walker campaign manager Scott Paradise said in a statement Wednesday. The Walker campaign did not immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press about his involvement in the boy's life. Walker has repeatedly criticized absentee fathers over the years, holding up his relationship with his older son, Christian Walker, whose mother is Walker’s former wife, Cindy Grossman. “I want all African Americans to know, even though you may leave the mom, don’t leave the child,” Walker told WABE-TV’s “Love and Respect with Killer Mike” on May 27.

Georgia still struggles with its history of slavery, segregation and racial injustice, but voters in the Deep South state have for the first time selected two Black candidates to represent the major parties in a U.S. Senate race.

Donald Trump began May with a decisive win for a favored candidate in Ohio, catapulting a Senate hopeful to a primary victory.

Former President Donald Trump’s crusade for vengeance suffered two devastating blows when Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won their primaries despite rejecting Trump’s entreaties to reverse his 2020 election loss.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has won the Republican primary in a bid to keep his job.

Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia has easily dispatched Donald Trump’s hand-picked challenger in a Republican primary that demonstrated the limits of the former president and his conspiracy-fueled politics in a critical swing state.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock will face Republican football legend Herschel Walker for a coveted Senate seat in Georgia after both handily defeated primary challengers to set up a historic, high-stakes showdown.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has made an in-person push for Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

Georgia takes center stage in Tuesday’s primary elections as Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger try to fight back challengers endorsed by Donald Trump.

Two Republican frontrunners are hoping to clinch primary victories in Georgia.

Herschel Walker boasts of his charity work helping members of the military who struggle with mental health.

Republicans who embraced discredited conspiracy theories about Donald Trump's 2020 defeat and preached skepticism about elections now need their supporters to trust the system enough to vote for them.

Tuesday’s debate among Georgia Republican Senate candidates was defined by the absence of frontrunner Herschel Walker.

In Nebraska, the winner of a crowded Republican primary race for governor will be the overwhelming favorite to win in November.

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, whose ex-wife recently accused him of physical abuse, says he will not drop his political comeback bid for the U.S. Senate.

Georgia Republican Herschel Walker says his U.S. Senate campaign raised $5.5 million in the first three months of 2022.

Donald Trump wants to use November’s midterm elections to solidify his continued dominance of the national Republican Party.

During his two Senate campaigns, Republican David Perdue raked in millions in campaign cash.

Republican missteps that include intense infighting are threatening the GOP’s path to the Senate majority.

Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker of Georgia says he's not taking sides in the state's GOP primary campaign for governor.

Herschel Walker’s Republican rivals for U.S. Senate in Georgia say reports by The Associated Press about the former football great's past leave the GOP vulnerable to losing the race if the party nominates him.

Former President Donald Trump remains the most popular figure with the GOP base as he considers another bid for the White House.

In a story published Feb. 10, 2022, The Associated Press reported that U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s therapist, Jerry Mungadze, holds a doctorate in philosophy.

Stetson Bennett delivered the biggest throws of his storybook career and Georgia’s defense sealed the sweetest victory in program history, vanquishing rival Alabama 33-18 to win the College Football Playoff title game.

Georgia coach Kirby Smart got an inside look at what it takes to build a college football juggernaut working for Nick Saban at Alabama for eight years.

Alabama has a chance to repeat.

This time last year, the Republican Party was hitting bottom.

Former President Donald Trump has set out to reshape the GOP in his image across the nation’s top political battlegrounds, sparking bitter primary battles.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is likely to face a prominent challenger for the 2022 Republican primary for governor, former Sen. David Perdue.

Stetson Bennett passed for 255 yards and four touchdowns, and No. 1 Georgia finished its undefeated regular season with a 45-0 victory over Georgia Tech. Georgia gained momentum for next week’s Southeastern Conference championship game against No. 3 Alabama in Atlanta.

Democrats in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, felt the Republican wave building over the summer when frustrated parents filled school board meetings to complain about masking requirements and an academic theory on systemic racism that wasn’t even taught in local schools.