Walker Up Five Points In Georgia Weeks Before Election Day

Republican candidate Herschel Walker is ahead of Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race by 5 percentage points, according to a new survey.

Walker earned the support of 48% of respondents, while Warnock gained 43%, according to Rasmussen Reports, which conducted the poll. Four percent of respondents said they’d vote for another candidate, which was the same amount of those undecided.

Under Georgia election law, if no candidate earns 50% of the vote outright, a runoff election with only the top two candidates is subsequently held. Per the Rasmussen survey, Walker would need only half of all undecided voters to win outright, while a victory for Warnock would only be possible with a runoff in which he gains votes from Walker or minor candidates.

The Senate race in Georgia is considered among the most competitive in the nation as Republicans seek to retake the seat, won by the late three-term Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson in 2016, who was replaced with Kelly Loeffler, by appointment, when he resigned. Loeffler lost a special election to serve the remainder of Isakson’s term in 2020 to Warnock, a presidential election year where then-President Donald Trump also lost the state.