Both Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker did not secure the necessary 50% required under Georgia state law to win the bid for U.S. Senate, forcing a runoff election in December. NBC News’ Ellison Barber and Kristen Walker explain how Georgians voted and the initial reaction from the White House.
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Walker doesn't seem too intelligent, too much baggage,and too inexperienced.
Voting blue got the status quo reelected. Tell me how voting for the same corrupt politicians that are destroying CA, NY, IL, WA and OR is helping anyone? Not to mention you guys voted for Fetterman a man with literal brain damage because you couldn't even find a competent replacement.
Extinction by the year 2060 due to the runaway-AGW that Republicans are creating which is the reason there are climate-refugees from South America at the southern border. Began with the industrial revolution NOT all of written history Deliverance.
Paragraph 1 of 8. Medicaid expansion and the fate of Obamacare are at the heart of the heated Georgia gubernatorial race October 16, 2018 This news article is from CNBC. A national battle over whether to extend public health insurance to low-income adults is at the center of a tightly contested gubernatorial race in Georgia, where hospitals and drug stores are closing across the Republican-controlled state’s rural southern and western counties. Georgia is one of eight states that opted not to expand Medicaid and will choose a new governor this year. Brian Kemp, the two-term GOP secretary of state, and Stacey Abrams, a former Democratic leader in the legislature, are competing in a race that mirrors the polarizing nature of health care in the country. Kemp opposes broadening the scope of Medicaid, while Abrams is for it.
Paragraph 2 of 8. Medicaid expansion and the fate of Obamacare are at the heart of the heated Georgia gubernatorial race A national battle over whether to extend public health insurance to low-income adults is at the center of a tightly contested gubernatorial race in Georgia, where hospitals and drug stores are closing across the Republican-controlled state’s rural southern and western counties. Georgia is one of eight states that opted not to expand Medicaid and will choose a new governor this year. Brian Kemp, the two-term GOP secretary of state, and Stacey Abrams, a former Democratic leader in the legislature, are competing in a race that mirrors the polarizing nature of health care in the country. Kemp opposes broadening the scope of Medicaid, while Abrams is for it.
Seems like a waste of time. Nevada’s results are over and neither got 50% of the vote but it’s been called. This just keeps dragging it out.
Paragraph 3 of 8. Medicaid expansion and the fate of Obamacare are at the heart of the heated Georgia gubernatorial race Medicaid expansion is a key feature of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. In Georgia, low-income residents have experienced high unemployment, a shortage of health care providers and long commutes to get proper care in a state opposed to Medicaid expansion. But an obstacle for Abrams is persuading rural voters, who associate Medicaid expansion with Obamacare, which they perceive negatively. It’s a potential hurdle for Democrats nationwide this fall. Democratic candidates stumping on health care have a solid chance of picking up seats in a number of legislatures. But in statewide elections where more conservative, white voters are a significant portion of the electorate, the party could face an uphill battle. Some bipartisan support for Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion would cover nearly half a million more people in Georgia, according to an analysis funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Georgia is one of 17 states to reject expanded federal Medicaid funding. Term-limited Republican Gov. Nathan Deal has long opposed expansion based on the belief that it would cost the state too much money in the long run.
Paragraph 4 of 8. Medicaid expansion and the fate of Obamacare are at the heart of the heated Georgia gubernatorial race “States across the country that have Medicaid expansion are doing so much better than Georgia, which has a serious rural hospital crisis and coverage gap,” said Dorothy Leone-Glasser, director of Advocates for Responsible Care, a nonpartisan advocacy group in the state. “With this year’s election, we can press candidates on how the state needs to expand Medicaid, bring down uninsured rates and close the gap for people who lack critical health care access.” Polling suggests that even Republicans in the state largely support Medicaid expansion. A SurveyUSA poll last week found 70 percent of registered Georgia voters back expansion, including 55 percent of respondents who identified themselves as Republicans. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll from January shows that 73 percent of Georgians back the provision. While Abrams has made Medicaid expansion the centerpiece of her campaign, Kemp vehemently opposes it. Like most other Republican leaders in nonexpansion states, he promises instead to open up the private sector market to more competition to lower health costs. What’s at stake across the country? In an interview with CNBC, Abrams said Medicaid expansion is not a partisan issue. “Governors from all across the political spectrum have expanded Medicaid — from Mike Pence in Indiana to West Virginia and Kentucky — and Georgia can do the same,” she said. Kemp has dismissed Medicaid as a failed government program with high costs for the state. “To add more people to a system where doctors aren’t taking patients and they’re losing 15 cents on the dollar is not the way to go,” Kemp said recently. He also argued that Abrams “has an extreme plan to nationalize health care and stick hard-working Georgians with the bill,” through a required tax increase. That rhetoric echoes attacks from national Republicans, including President Donald Trump. Kemp promised to fund more residency positions in family medicine and grow the Rural Hospital Tax Credit Program so rural hospitals could earn more from individual or corporate tax credits.
Paragraph 5 of 8. Medicaid expansion and the fate of Obamacare are at the heart of the heated Georgia gubernatorial race In Georgia and the seven other nonexpansion states —South Dakota Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri and Mississippi — more than one-third of low-income adults living in rural areas and small towns are uninsured, according to a recent study by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. On Election Day, voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah will decide whether their states should increase access to Medicaid. Montana voters will choose whether to keep that state’s expansion, and the issue has also taken root in Florida and Wisconsin’s gubernatorial races. Democrats, in turn, have used health care as their no. 1 issue in midterm races. Other Democratic gubernatorial candidates that support Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act include Andrew Gillum in Florida, Laura Kelly in Kansas, and Janet Mills in Maine. They are all locked in contested races against Republican leaders that have opposed the provision. GOP candidates in other states, such as Bill Schuette in Michigan and Mike DeWine in Ohio, also have to grapple with whether to keep Medicaid expansion. Both Republicans have flipped their positions and now support keeping the provision, with exceptions involving work requirements for nondisabled beneficiaries. Abrams faces Georgia’s rural conservatives. For Abrams, winning over rural voters in Georgia who associate Medicaid expansion with Obamacare will pose a challenge since she is a traditional liberal running in a classically conservative state. Republicans have made her leftward leanings a key part of their campaign against her. An ad from the Republican Governors Association over the summer called her a “radical” and “too liberal for Georgia.” Kemp has a 2-point lead, according to a Real Clear Politics average of polls. To win, Abrams will need to make inroads in parts of the state that tend to be whiter and more conservative. She recently took a three-day tour to southern Georgia in a bid to persuade skeptical Republican voters. She framed her argument for expansion as not a progressive talking point, but rather as a pragmatic pro-growth initiative for the entire state. It won’t be clear until the election whether she changed enough minds to win. GOP strategists say that deeply entrenched conservative voters are unlikely to break from their party and support Abrams’ platform. “Abrams does not have a chance to overperform with rural Republican-leaning counties because that issue will be tied around her as ‘Obamacare,’” said Republican pollster Brent Buchanan. “Usually lower-income voters are lower-propensity voters, so it takes much more to get them to the polls than persuading the people who are most likely to vote — middle-income and upper-income voters.” Abrams, who would be the country’s first black female governor if she wins, has talked of bringing more medical care to rural Georgia through a government program for low-income people. She also recently released a six-page platform that calls for Medicaid expansion with more services for seniors and the disabled, medical apprenticeships and doctor relocation. The plan also calls for the protection of the Affordable Care Act.
Paragraph 6 of 8. Medicaid expansion and the fate of Obamacare are at the heart of the heated Georgia gubernatorial race Even if Abrams wins and Democrats gain some seats in the GOP-controlled legislature in November, she would face a tough battle against the Georgia lawmakers who oppose expansion. Kemp, on the other hand, has supported the lawsuit brought by 20 Republican-led states and backed by the Trump administration, which would allow insurance companies to stop covering people with pre-existing medical conditions.
Paragraph 7 of 8. Medicaid expansion and the fate of Obamacare are at the heart of the heated Georgia gubernatorial race Advocacy groups for health care and rural hospitals in Georgia have condemned the lawsuit. Kemp’s plan would not reduce Georgia’s growing uninsured rate, according to Joan Alker, director of the Georgetown study. “Brian Kemp’s plan seems to focus on promoting reinsurance programs that would largely benefit individuals who already have access to health insurance options,” said Liz Coyle, executive director of Georgia Watch. “Without some form of Medicaid expansion, hundreds of thousands of Georgians would still remain in the coverage gap without access to affordable coverage.”
Paragraph 8 of 8. Medicaid expansion and the fate of Obamacare are at the heart of the heated Georgia gubernatorial race Kemp has a structural advantage in the conservative leaning state. In the past two gubernatorial elections, Deal won the central and eastern part of Georgia and all but one of the counties Abrams visited on her recent tour. The Republican governor won three of those five counties by double-digit margins. Trump won the entire southern region despite only carrying the state narrowly over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016. These traditionally red counties are unlikely to turn blue, since strong, partisan loyalty is a tough pattern to break. Experts say Kemp has already locked down his base. “Kemp thinks he needs to rally his base to win, and opposing Obamacare Medicaid expansion is popular among the conservative Republican voters in the state, who do not realize the connection between the Medicaid expansion and rural health care,” said Georgia State University political science professor Robert Matthew Howard.
T h e H o l y T r i n i t y o r d e r s a l l e l e c t i o n d e n i e r s s h o t i n t h e f a c e o n s i g h t. Amen.
God Bless You, Herschel Walker! Save our nation. It needs to be saved by these radical democrats. Two years and they ruined it.
Warnock and Biden has to go. America needs a change. America is heading in a wrong direction.
all the dems thinking they won when they don't even realize that the runoff hasn't happened yet 😂🤣🤣
Why even vote fo walker Democrats already got the majority
O.k., the left keep playing dirty. We need to just make known news about every Democrat candidate about how many abortions' they have supported, the hypocrites. The left is so low it is disgusting. They do everything for political stunts which is disgusting. America, nothing to be proud about there.
When are we going to have Republican NEWSPAPERS out like the New York Times does?? We need real national newspapers representing Republican view points and news.
Just like money rig High INFLATION to make democrats look bad don't be manipulated with the the rich buying this senate set. Vote with your brain not empty sound bytes. Ask yourself who is supremely more qualified to serve Americans not a just just a political party aka GOP with ZERO solutions to fix real life problems.
Walker for the win!!
Georgia GOP wants slavery back, Herschel is the first one. They will use this politically ignorant lying tool to do the GOPs bidding. Georgia, you are better than this. Put America first and vote for Warnock.
YIKES! How could any intelligent person watch Herschel Walker stumble and lie actually vote for him? USA will get exactly what they deserve once things are over. Either conspiracy theory self serving liars, who believe the constitution is optional, or people who uphold the constitution and all the rights there in.
I never thought I would live to see the day when White people prayed and voted for Stepin Fetchit to be Senator of Georgia.
If only God can help the people of Georgia but he already doom them
Georgia police strip searched women, exposing private parts in front of strangers, girls gone wild , senator love this ,
Warnock is working hard to put farmers out of business so that subsidies can be given to farmers of color only to lease Bill Gates farm land. Warnock is a big corporate puppet
You cannot be a Democrat without rejecting God’s word. Christians do not reject it. Warnock is no Christian, he only pretends to be. A typical reprobate mind.
Absolutely mind bogglingly sickening that half the people voted for a brainless, ignorant, former football player for the Senate. Sickening. Even animals do not choose the dumbest among them to lead.
The repubs repeatedly told Kaepernick to stick to football. What happened here??
Fulton County knows how many democrat ballots to manufacture now. :-/
When I lived in GA they hated "N-word". If you wasn't WHITE you was not 'peepl'e'. Non-white was just a tool needed to make stuff better. And yet, a non-white serial abort daddy gets almost 50%. Yeah, even the Kay Kay Kay must have voted for him.Prbobably because the only letter they see is 'R' even though they hated Obama for being a 'N'
Abortion …ok for republiscum. Lies steal ..
Every Republican in Georgia has to get out and vote plus Democrats that are tired of Woke ideology need to vote Republican so we can control the Senate.
Texas and Florida Republicans came out big and Georgia has to do the same.
Sending prayers and love for Georgia and for Warnock come on Georgina's you GOT This for Warnock 👍 coming out of Ohio I'm praying and rooting you 👍 👏👏
The votes are not yet finished being counted and there is talked of a run off incorrectly.
Does anybody know who from the DNC can check if in fact there is less than 10000 votes still to count as the Georgia Secretary State Brad R.? It is only a few more than 19,000 more votes for Mr. Warnock to be over 50% plus 1 vote, and I wander if there is ballots to cure or in a recount may be discovered.
They actually voted for a man that can't even pronounce democracy. 🤦🏾♀️
Just as Herschel Walker decided the fate of the Vikings and Cowboys in the 1990's, shall he now decide the fate of our Senate for the next two years. Hershel ruined the Vikings and, in leaving Dallas, gave the Cowboys a bona fide dynasty. Walker is one of the greatest disappointments in all the annals of professional sports. Vote Warnock like your life depends on it.
Are you f***ing kidding me, Georgia?
Democrats are already planning to cheat this runoff. Guarantee.
So they have Ted Cruz coming to rally for Walker. If there was 1 person worse than Trump, it would be Cruz. He went on vacation when the power grid went down in TX last year, and still supports Trump after Trump trashed his wife. Very brave. Speaking of that, bring in Lady Lindsey who tried to turn over the 2020 GA election and was "done" with Trump until a few people confronted him over it in an airport and he now supports Trump again. Bravery all around in the party. And of course the hypocrites, who want a ban on abortion, but their guy can have several out of wedlock no less, but that's okay because he has a "R" after his name.
Who is going to really look into the boxes and safe guard the runoff count ,WAKE UP GEORGIA be vigilant with the run off the Dems do not play by the RULES
Why isn't WARNOCKS black children sexual abuse case not even mentioned ??
This is embarrassing! It makes me want to move to a true red state.
We need those independents and those libertarians to join with the Dems. Cuz obviously an ex football champion is not a public servant.
They should be able to decide this outcome without a run off!
Well God help Georgia if that ahole walker wins!
" DON'T BE CHILDISH IN YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THESE THINGS . BE INNOCENT AS BABIES WHEN IT COMES TO EVIL , BUT BE MATURE AND WISE IN UNDERSTANDING MATTERS OF THIS KIND . IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES . . . " 2022 "
Only in America would liars be considered normal. Americans must enjoy being teased and humiliated by other nations
We in Georgia need a 3rd option immediately I don't want either of these candidates
You gotta give Herschel credit because during the debate, he actually answered the questions, unlike warnock, who was ducking & dodging, especially when asked about those folks who got evicted from the apartment building.