ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday campaigned for the first time with Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker, the most significant effort yet to persuade voters who backed both the governor and Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock to return to the GOP fold for the runoff.
“We cannot rest on our laurels here, everyone,” Kemp said to a crowd of hundreds outside a Smyrna gun store that plays hosts to many GOP rallies. “We have got more wood to chop.”
Those split-ticket voters the governor is targeting played the most decisive role in this month’s election, and they could also determine the Dec. 6 runoff in the last U.S. Senate battle of the 2022 election cycle — and a final chance for Republicans to pick up a coveted seat after an underwhelming midterm.
