ATLANTA — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker remain in a neck-and-neck race for Georgia's wildly competitive Senate seat, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Georgia News Collaborative poll released Wednesday, while GOP Gov. Brian Kemp has a double-digit lead over Democrat Stacey Abrams.
The poll offers only a partial glimpse of the impact of reports that Walker paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009 despite his vows to ban the procedure. Only a handful of responses were collected after the publication of the allegations, which Walker has denied.
Still, the results underscore the challenge both candidates face to score an outright victory. The poll showed Warnock at 46% and Walker at 43%, within the margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, joining other surveys that showed both hovering below the majority-vote mark needed to avoid a runoff. Libertarian Chase Oliver drew about 4% of support, while 6% were undecided.
