The most expensive Senate race in the country is...

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The most expensive Senate race in the country is...
Karen Townsend 11:01 AM on November 04, 2022

Lots and lots of money is being given to Senator Raphael Warnock in his bid to win a full term in the U.S. Senate. The Senate race in Georgia between the incumbent Democrat Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker is shaping up to be the costliest Senate race in the country and Warnock has raked in the most money of any Senate candidate.

Real Clear Politics has the Georgia Senate race as a toss-up. As of this morning, Walker is up over Warnock by 0.5 points. There is little doubt that the race will go to a run-off with neither candidate reaching 50%. Warnock has raised $37 million more than the number two fund-raiser running for the Senate this election cycle, Arizona Democrat Senator Mark Kelly. Warnock has raised $115 million to Herschel Walker’s $37 million, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Georgia leads the nation in the race for political cash.

The money is being spent on a blitz of campaign ads on television and social media. Some Georgia residents are shocked by the personal attacks lodged in the ads. Yvonne Edman, a Democrat, from Lithia Springs says the negative attacks must stop. “The negative campaign ads are the most hideous, the worst thing that we can experience. This has got to stop.” She must be new to politics. Negative campaign ads aren’t going to stop and they only get worse as election day grows closer. Politics ain’t bean bag, as the expression goes.

Thanks to digital fund-raising, small donor donations are up. Small donations are 48% of Warnock’s total and 43% of Walker’s.

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I learned the hard way in the last campaign I ran that negative ads worked, no matter how outlandish the claim.

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Warnock has raised $115 million to Herschel Walker’s $37 million

Republicans need to wake up to this.  For someone who has been in the Senate for only two years, where in the hell did he get $115 million?

All of this has been funneled from the massive spending bills (e.g. Infrastructure Bill, Inflation Reduction Bill, etc.) the Democrats have enacted since taking power.  Look around at all the other Democrat candidates in every race.  There is no shortage of money at all.  Maybe next time, Republicans will get off their collective asses and block these spending bills (which they certainly could have done) to take the financial guns out of their political opponents' hands.