Control of the Senate still hangs in the balance, forcing Republicans to briefly put aside their intraparty blame game as they go all-in on winning Georgia’s Senate runoff.
But Democrats, fresh off an election night when they outperformed even their own expectations, have reason to believe they can hold the majority. Blake Masters in Arizona is trailing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly by 5 points — a wider margin than other Republicans on the ticket — while Republican Adam Laxalt’s lead over Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto remains tenuous as votes are still being tallied in the state’s largest county.
During the call Thursday, Graham, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour and Todd Ricketts were reported to be among those co-chairing the finance committee for Walker’s campaign, which is still growing but includes seven senators and Sen.-elect Markwayne Mullin , according to a document obtained by POLITICO. Shortly after the conference call, Republican Senate offices received an email from the NRSC with talking points about Herschel Walker and the Georgia runoff and soliciting help from members to act as Walker surrogates over the next few weeks. “We had some losses, but we’re on track to still win the majority,” read one of the talking points in the email.
The campaign is launching with a pair of TV ads, which were shared first with POLITICO. The first ad features a series of womenon a litany of issues. In the ad, two women specifically call out reports that Walker paid his then-girlfriend for an abortion. The biggest tranche of ballots remains in Maricopa County, the state’s largest county, which has about 350,000 ballots left to tally. Election officials in the county had said before the election that they hoped to have the vast majority of the votes tallied by the Friday after the election. But during a Thursday evening press conference, they acknowledged that wouldn’t be the case.
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