The U.S. Senate election in Georgia “unfolded as if it were a laboratory experiment to test whether the quality of a candidate had any effect in this era of fierce partisanship,” Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes.
for a rally on the east side of Atlanta. Warnock addressed the crowd, but Obama closed. The ex-President’s critique of Walker’s candidacy and his case for Warnock’s mattered less than his call to vote, and his insistence that the same civil-rights tradition that ran through’s career, and Obama’s own, now ran through Warnock’s, too.
Winners get to write history, in political campaigns as in military ones. When Walker conceded, just before 11on Tuesday, the crowd at Warnock’s victory rally—watching the Republican on a big screen—waved goodbye to him. The counties around Atlanta had delivered big margins for the Democrat; the idea that nominating a Black conservative would peel off African American votes for Republicans didn’t work this time.
How much difference did these individuals, Walker and Warnock, make in the end, against the tectonic forces of partisanship? Some. They madedifference, and in the most consequential ways.
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