So why didn't Republicans run an old white guy instead of Walker?

[OAITW r.2.0]

Seriously, was there no one on the Republican bench to run against Warnock? I am just surprised that they'd run a such a pitiful candidate for the US Senate, I assume there were no intelligent blacks that would run as a Republican, but where were the old white guys to run against Warnock>

[In It to Win It]

1. I feel like they'll try to push Brian Kemp

[Glorfindel]

5. Yes, he'll run against Senator Ossoff in 2026

Senator Ossoff will defeat him handily.

[themaguffin]

32. Some in RW media want Kemp to run for pres in 2024

I don't see this style working nationally though.

[Claustrum]

2. It's because Walker is TFG's guy.

And the republican base is still crazy enough to follow TFG after numerous election loss.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. So the Georgia Republican Party has no say in who they run?

Well, that explains it. It's Trump fault!

[Claustrum]

12. Do you expect the party (whether it's democratic party or republican party) to overwrite

the votes of the primary voters? No matter what the party establishment feel about the candidate, the primary base voters chose Walker.

[OAITW r.2.0]

18. Actually, I wondered why he won the Republican primary.

There were no white old Republican candidates to run? Maybe Republicans realize that Georgia is turning blue, so Hershel was their best, last chance.

[Claustrum]

19. I think there was a "normal republican" running against Walker

and Walker won by a very slight margin and TFG praised himself for getting him across the finish line.

This is why I don't buy the TFG is done talk. His cultist base is enough to win him the primary just like the many disastrous TFG picks for this midterm.

[dsp3000]

3. They thought blacks would be dumb enough to vote for walker.

And also gives Republicans the (painfully BS) plausibile deniability of "look see! we're not racist! we ran a black candidate and voted for him!"

[Wounded Bear]

9. Kind of like how they thought Palin would win the woman's vote...

[Phentex]

28. Yes, this was a Palin approach...

They thought:

blacks would vote for him

football fans would vote for him (football and UGA huge number of fans)

Trump fans would vote for him

he would vote the way they told him to


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The whole thing was very scary when you know you live among people who were okay with this plan.

In the end, I believe this election came down to GOTV and Dems showing up.

[former9thward]

21. Kemp has won twice now against Stacey Abrams.

I would not say nobody left.

[Meadowoak]

6. Trump thought Herschel Walker could flip the black vote from

D to R.

[Mz Pip]

14. Yeah, no

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Walker was every stereotype Black men have been fighting against for decades. Black people weren’t and didn’t support that.

[PortTack]

27. Nailed it..would like to write to walker and ask him...did you really fall for that?

Not that I doubt that he did, but to try and wake the poor guy up.

[Mz Pip]

8. This was Trump's candidate

When has the GOP pushed back on Trump?

Considering how close it was, if they had run a better candidate they would have won. But can’t say no to Donnie Orange King.

.

[former9thward]

23. They pushed back on Trump in Georgia.

Kemp beat the Trump endorsed candidate in the primary for governor. The Trump endorsed candidate for Secretary of State lost in the primary.

[Ocelot II]

10. They needed a Black candidate to run against Warnock so they could claim

they aren't really racist. But they couldn't find a competent Black candidate because those are all Democrats, and anyhow, Walker embodies what the GOP thinks Black men are really like: not very bright, irresponsible fathers, inclined toward violence, only good at sports. And TFG wanted him, probably for the same reasons. They probably also thought he'd take enough of the Black vote away from Warnock to beat him, but Black people found Walker's candidacy insulting and reacted accordingly.

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. Sad, but true. It's all about the cynical hypocrisy.

The way Republicans think of black people. Their cynicism bit them, again.

[SharonClark]

22. Well said.

[tanyev]

11. They thought running a famous black athlete would take a lot of black votes from Warnock.

They will always choose superficial stunts over substance.

[frogmarch]

15. I agree that's why they did it.

And the arsholes almost pulled it off.

[gratuitous]

13. In a way they did

Herschel was fronting for him. Hint: The guy in Mar-a-Lago.

[FelineOverlord]

17. Trump's "friendship" with Walker goes back to the USFL days in the 1980s

I guess Walker thinks he owes Trump or something like that.

[DemocraticPatriot]

20. because the Orange Blob said "THIS!"

lol


In defense of the morons, and the "Moron In Chief",
I presume they didn't realize how bad a candidate that he would be....



How COULD they realize it??? the absolute WORST CANDIDATE IN THE HISTORY OF US SENATE ELECTIONS ???

lol


"you chose poorly"
~ Indiana Jones #3

[OAITW r.2.0]

24. "you chose poorly"

May this be the epitaph of the Republican Party!

[Dan]

25. My thoughts...

I’m thinking that the GOP just wanted an idea of low could they go - to fracture the Black vote.

[brush]

26. Simple. Walker was trump's choice. A large percentage of...

republicans are still afraid to go against trump.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

29. A Republican needs Black votes to win in Georgia, and a Black Republican is going to get more Black

votes than a white Republican.

[hatrack]

30. A black Republican beating a black Democrat would OWN LIBTARDS HARDER!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!

There would have been some secondary bleating about "diversity" and a "future" for the GQP, but that's about it.

[Willto]

33. I'll tell you why

A. Because first of all they love to use any black person who will let them to try and look like a big tent inclusive party. They aren't of course nor do they want to be. In fact, they are even worse in that regard than they were 20 years ago. They just want to create the illusion.

B. They think black people are so stupid that they will vote for someone just because of the color of their skin. Even when that person's political views run counter to everything, they believe in. This is a racial stereotype they have always held.

C. They felt like once in office Walker would have been totally theirs to just order about.