Credit: The 2022 midterm election promises to be expensive, with almost $300 million spent in ad sales between the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate race.
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Political Rewind: $300M spent in top races; ad focuses on Walker's domestic violence; rural voters
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The panel:
Adrienne Jones, @adriennemjns, professor of political science and director of pre-law, Morehouse College
Greg Bluestein, @bluestein, political reporter, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Charles Bullock, professor of political science, University of Georgia
Rick Dent, VP, Matrix Communications
The breakdown:
1. Gov. Brian Kemp, Stacey Abrams, Sen. Raphael Warnock, and Herschel Walker spend $300 million in the race for governor and senate race.
- Democrats are outspending their Republican counterparts.
- This comes after two expensive Senate races in 2020.
2. New ad focuses on Walker's domestic violence issues with an ex-wife.
- This new ad from a pro-Warnock super PAC began running this morning.
- The narrator starts by saying, "Herschel Walker has repeatedly threatened to kill his ex-wife. He held a razor to her throat and threatened to kill her."
- The Walker campaign says these words from his wife come from a joint interview where they both talked about this mental health.
- According to Emerson College, Walker leads the incumbent Warnock by two points.
3. Abrams' campaign comes out with positive ads on tax issues and her plans to spend the surplus.
- But Kemp has fired back with a new ad about his refusal to shut down during COVID.
- The record surplus is due in part to federal funds from President Biden's American Rescue Plan Act.
- In the Emerson College poll, Kemp leads Abrams by 4 points.
4. Attack ad from campaign focuses on inflation.
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Pro-Walker PAC releases ad blaming Warnock for inflation.
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Joe Biden has a 42% approval rating in Georgia and a 57% disapproval rating.
5. Abrams' campaign focusing on rural GA.
- Abrams stumped for votes in Camilla, GA.
- She visited all of Georgia’s 159 counties in her 2018 bid for governor as well.
6. A look at the down-ballot races in Georgia.
- For attorney general, incumbent Chris Carr faces Democratic challenger Jen Jordan.
- Both candidates have made abortion a cornerstone issues of their campaign.
- Jordan says if elected she would not spend state resources prosecuting women who violate the six-week abortion ban.
- Carr says those actions would not fulfill the office.
- Both candidates have made abortion a cornerstone issues of their campaign.
- Charlie Bailey is up against Burt Jones for lieutenant governor.
- Jones is currently under investigation for his role as an alleged fake elector in the 2020 election. Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified from the investigation after she held a fundraiser for Bailey before his Democratic nomination.
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