Obama urges Georgia Democrats to push turnout for Warnock
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Source: Associated Press/By BILL BARROW and JEFF AMY
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ATLANTA (AP) -- Former President Barack Obama and Sen. Raphael Warnock on Thursday urged Democratic voters to keep pushing an apparent head start in early voting in the Georgia Senate runoff against Republican Herschel Walker, ahead of Friday's last day of early in-person voting and Tuesday's election day.
"If they didn't get tired, you can't get tired," Obama told a crowd gathered in a cavernous former railroad repair shop east of downtown Atlanta.
Voters have already cast more than 1.4 million ballots amid an all-hands-on-deck push by Democrats to bank as many votes as possible while Republicans, especially Walker, have taken a less aggressive approach that could leave the GOP nominee heavily dependent on runoff Election Day turnout.
"We've got to keep on showing up," Warnock told the crowd at his largest event of the four-week runoff blitz. "We've got to keep on voting. We cannot let up for even a moment. We've got to keep our foot on the gas all the way to victory."
Original story:
ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia voters have cast more than 1 million ballots ahead of the Dec. 6 U.S. Senate runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, with Warnock looking to juice an apparent Democratic head start in early voting with a visit Thursday from Barack Obama.
The former president will campaign with Warnock on the eve of the final day of early voting. The rally, which promises to be the largest event of Warnock's four-week runoff blitz, underscores the two parties' different approaches to early voting in the final contest of the 2022 election.
Democrats have employed an all-hands-on-deck push to bank as many votes as possible while Republicans, especially Walker, have taken a less aggressive approach that could leave the GOP nominee heavily dependent on runoff Election Day turnout.
"I think the turnout we're seeing is good, and I want to encourage people to stick with it," Warnock said as he campaigned this week, comparing voting to waiting in line at a popular Atlanta lunch spot. "The other day I went to the Slutty Vegan, and the line was wrapped around the block, and folks still waited and got their sandwiches," he said. "I went and voted yesterday, and it was pretty painless."
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You go, Mr. President.
Update: Fixed headline to expand Georgia abbreviation. The way I learned journalism, you don't abbreviate states without the name of the city.
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