The district attorney’s office hours later told the county superior court chief judge Ural Glanville asking judges not to schedule trials and in-person hearings from 31 July to 18 August because most of her staff would be remote in a letter seen by the Guardian and first reported by the New York Times.Ī spokesperson for Willis did not respond to a request for comment. You would want to know, does he know how to fly an airplane?” Obama asked.Willis made no explicit mention of Trump during the meeting, but the specific timing is understood to reflect the expected window for indictments after previous indications suggested charging decisions would come during the court term that runs July to September. ![]() Let’s have him fly the plane.’ You probably wouldn’t say that. Walker and you say, ‘Hey, there’s Herschel Walker. “Let’s say you’re at the airport and you see Mr. Meanwhile, Warnock’s campaign was boosted by former President Barack Obama, who questioned Walker’s fitness for office at a late-October Atlanta rally. Lindsey Graham, appeared with Walker during campaign rallies.ĪP/Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution Rick Scott of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas appeared with Walker at rallies, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, chaired by Scott, began to pour millions of dollars into the race. ![]() “We’ve seen this movie before, and we’re not going to put up with it,” Graham told Walker’s supporters in Georgia at the end of October.Īlong with Graham, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) emerged as one of Walker’s staunchest champions and dismissed the abortion scandal as a political attack, likening the accusations to those leveled at Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation hearings in 2018. 3, statistically deadlocking the race that could determine which party controls the Senate.Įven as Warnock’s camp used the accusations to attack Walker’s fitness to be a senator, national Republicans began trekking to the Peach State to rally with the former football star or take to the airwaves to boost his campaign. 27, Walker had pulled even with Warnock in the polls and eventually built a two-percentage-point advantage on Nov. Walker, who has spoken publicly about his opposition to the procedure, denied the accusations.īy Oct. Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner for the University of Georgia Bulldogs, trailed Warnock by nearly six percentage points in early October but began to rebound in the middle of the month despite accusations from two former girlfriends that he pressured them to have abortions. Oliver, as the third-ranking candidate, will not be able to take part in the runoff, which will determine the final makeup of the US Senate - and possibly decide the balance of power depending on results in Arizona and Nevada. Libertarian Chase Oliver was playing spoiler with 2.1% of the vote and slightly more than 81,000 ballots cast. With about 98% of the expected vote in, Warnock led Walker by 0.9% (49.4% to 48.5%), a difference of around 35,000 raw votes. “While county officials are still doing the detailed work on counting the votes, we feel it is safe to say there will be a runoff for the US Senate here in Georgia slated for December 6,” Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer in the Georgia Secretary of State’s office tweeted early Wednesday. ![]() ![]() Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent, nor Herschel Walker, his Republican challenger, failed to win a majority of the vote in one of the highest-profile contests in the country. The US Senate race in Georgia will be settled in a runoff election next month after neither Sen. Hochul calls it quits after reports of toxic behavior Hochul denies she knew ex-adviser was ‘egomaniac’ who belittled staff How Republicans can avoid a humiliating 2022 repeat and win in 2024ĭeja blue: Printer’s flub makes every Nassau County voter a Democrat
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