GA Primary, General Elections Would Go To Kemp, Walker If Held Today, Pollster Says

ATLANTA, GA — New polling in Georgia’s major statewide Republican primaries and November general races shows Gov. Brian Kemp with a slight edge over his challengers and Herschel Walker leading in the U.S. Senate race.

Also, just over a third of voters surveyed said that they lacked faith in the results of the November 2022 elections, according to a Quinnipiac University Georgia poll released Wednesday.

"With former Senator Perdue and current Governor Kemp doing verbal battle, Stacey Abrams, so close in 2018, is running neck and neck with both potential opponents, positioning herself once again to possibly become Georgia's first African American governor," Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement. "Will my vote count? In Georgia, that bedrock American right is hardly a given, with many voters not entirely sure.”

In the polling, Kemp outpaced former U.S. Sen. David Perdue in the GOP race for the state gubernatorial nomination 43 percent to 36. Challengers Vernon Jones, Kandiss Taylor and Catherine Davis earned 10, 4, and 1 percent respectively.

In predicting a head-to-head match against Democrat and 2018 challenger Stacey Abrams, Kemp edged out Abrams 49 percent to 47 percent, the poll said. Projecting a hypothetical race between Abrams and Perdue, survey respondents came to a draw, giving both candidates 48 percent support.

Abrams, however, earned a higher favorability rating than Kemp or Perdue, with 44 percent to Kemp’s 36 and Perdue’s 37.

Walker, the former University of Georgia running back and Heisman Trophy winner, ran away from his competitors for the U.S. Senate nomination, gaining 81 percent of the polling with state Agricultural Secretary Gary Black in a distant second place in the field of seven with just 6 percent, the poll showed.

In a hypothetical match-up with incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, Walker edged out the sitting senator by a percentage point, 49 to 48. Warnock, however, received a slightly higher favorability rating than Walker (44 percent versus 42 percent).

Following a presidential election in which doubt about the outcome was sewn by former President Donald Trump and his supporters with the “big lie” that widespread cheating – which has been widely disproved – robbed him of a second term in office, not all voters were confident of what is to come in this November.

According to Quinnipiac, 36 percent of those polled expressed a lack of confidence to some degree that Georgia’s 2022 general election would be counted accurately. That includes 21 percent who were “not so confident” and 15 percent who said they were “not confident at all.”

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