Georgia political watchers are abuzz with talk of “split-ticket” voters – people who voted for a Republican, Brian Kemp, in the governor’s race, but crossed the aisle to vote for Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, in the US Senate race.
I met quite a few Republican voters who knew they would vote for Kemp, but hesitated to punch a ballot for the party’s US Senate nominee, former American Football star Herschel Walker, due to negative reports about his personal life.
One voter who was on the fence was Yeni Tran, 42, of Clark County. She was a staunch supporter of the Republican Kemp. But of Walker, she said, “I’m torn. I heard some of his speeches, and it’s not the most intellectual.”
Jennifer Almond, 48, also supported Kemp but was put off by allegations from Walker’s ex-wife that he’d once threatened her with a gun. “I had heard briefly about the stuff going on with his ex-wife,” she said. “And that kind of bothers me.”
Source: BBC