MADRID, 12 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The political action committees (PAC) both related to the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are already preparing millions of dollars (euros) for the second round of voting to elect the senator from Georgia, a position that could be key for Democrats or Republicans control the US Senate.
In the first round of voting on November 8, the outgoing senator, the Democrat Raphael Warnock, obtained 49.42 percent of the vote, while the Republican candidate Herschel Walker won 48.52 percent of the vote.
Both the Democratic Senate Leadership Fund superPAC and the Republican National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) will spend millions and millions of dollars on the campaign trail even if control of the Upper House of the Capitol does not depend on this vote.
Ads for Georgia Honor, a super PAC that has $4 million for a single week of television ads attacking Walker, have begun airing this Saturday, CNN reports. The ad states that Walker is a liar who has “a long history of violence against women.”
“Herschel Walker has shown us who he is. Herschel Walker is not fit for the job,” says the voiceover. The first part of the campaign has seen more than $30 million spent on Georgia Honor ads alone.
In 2008 Walker’s ex-wife, Cindy Grossman, claimed in an interview with CNN that Walker put a razor blade to her neck and on another occasion put a gun to her temple and told her he was going to blow her brains out. .
“Raphael Warnock and his allies are using the same tired attacks that have not worked in recent months,” said a spokesman for Walker, Will Kiley, quoted by CNN. “His position on the far left is far from the people of Georgia. It’s time to change. Herschel Walker is the champion the people of Georgia need,” he added.
The Republican NRSC has also coordinated a donation campaign with the Republican Party of Georgia and has already launched a first ad that compares the campaign to a “miniseries” and ensures that Warnock “belongs to Hollywood, not Washington”: ” Warnock is a great actor. He doesn’t act like your senator. Spending, taxes, energy… Warnock votes with Joe Biden 96 percent of the time and he’s getting old.”
Also Donald Trump’s superPAC, MAGA Inc., could contribute a significant amount to the Walker campaign, which could be a double-edged sword given the modest result of the candidates sympathetic to Trump in the recent mid-term elections.
