HOWARD KURTZ: Herschel Walker, thrown for a loss that also hurts Trump and Senate Republicans
Herschel Walker gave a nice concession speech, talking about the need to believe in America and, yes, the Constitution. But in the end,wasn’t that close, and that has huge implications beyond the defeat of the former football star.
A generic, boring Republican candidate probably could have won. But Walker could not. He had way too much personal baggage and ran an erratic campaign, perhaps symbolized by his rambling account of a movie in which a werewolf can kill a vampire. , who handpicked Walker to make the Georgia run. There were five battleground contests for control of the Senate–Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and New Hampshire as well as Georgia–and Republicans only had to win two to take control.
Most of them softened their stances on Trump’s stolen election rhetoric, and on abortion rights, but they all lost what looked like winnable races for the GOP. For all the party’s relief about dodging a red wave, the House will still be controlled by Republicans, if only by a small margin. And that means a whole different climate in Washington, with investigations and subpoenas, and the White House trying to preserve its initiatives of the last two years rather than breaking much new ground.
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