Over 1800 Georgians have already cast their ballots over the weekend, taking advantage of that extra day of early voting that they got because of that lawsuit that was filed by Senator Warnock. Did you agree with the judge's ruling in that case?
I don't even know why there was a discussion on that. Look, people got plenty of time, time to vote in this election. Let them go vote. This is going to be a turnout election. My message to people is don't get distracted by things like that, just get the vote out.
So you think it's good that there was that extra day of early voting? Well, counties have always had the option of when they could do early voting or not. I think fighting that fight, we could have been doing other things.
But look, it wasn't my decision, I wasn't involved in it. All that matters is on election day, who's got the most votes. It's that simple. And I just think Republicans don't need to get distracted.
That's what happened in the last runoff we had here in Georgia and it didn't turn out very well for us. Well, I want to return to that, but since I have seen you, you've won your reelection, you got about 2000 more votes than the Republican candidate for Senate, Herschel Walker did.
You're now appearing with him on the campaign trail in a much bigger way than you were the last time I saw you. Why now? And why do you think 200,000 people voted for you but not for Herschel Walker?
Well, listen, I was focused on making sure that I got reelected and I was also, as you know from our past interviews and what people saw us doing in our campaign doing it wasn't just helping me, it was helping our whole ticket.
We had a really good night here in Georgia. We won every statewide race, republicans did, and then we got the incumbent US. Senator in a runoff. So we had an incredible night here. But really to me, the runoff now is a very simple choice.
Are you going to vote for somebody that's been with Joe Biden 96% of the time or are you going to vote for somebody who's going to go up there and fight for Georgia? And that's the way I'm voting. Well, Herschel walker was the only republican who did not win on November 8 on the statewide ticket.
What you just said about the choice, something you said reminded something you saw on the campaign trail recently, which as you said, who do you want to fight for you in the Senate? Do you want a guy who represents our values like Herschel walker, or do you want somebody who has voted with President Biden 96% of the time?
Does Herschel walker share your values? Well, listen, when I'm talking about going to Washington, DC. And fighting for what Georgians need, I'm talking about the border. 40-year high inflation, astronomical gas prices since joe Biden took office, and the agenda that Raphael Warlock has supported up there.
I mean, to me, it's that simple in this race, and that's why I'm voting for Herschel walker. I want somebody to go up there, and it's going to fight for our state and fight for our citizens, not fight to support a president that, in my view, is not upholding the values of what jordans want.
And you think Herschel walker does that when it comes to values, I think. He will do that in the united states senate. You're campaigning with Herschel walker, but senator Warnock has kind of been campaigning with you.
You have been featured in some of his ads. He is showing voters who cast their ballots freedom. They did a press conference talking about me and my agenda, and hopefully, because they did that, people will listen to what I've been telling them to vote for a guy to go and fight for us.
It's pretty rare to see a democratic senate candidate campaigning with people who voted for the Republican governor. Yeah, I mean, look, Warnock has got a lot of resources. He can do whatever he wants.
But at the end of the day, I don't think any of that stuff matters. The money doesn't matter. Somebody's view that's going on in a television commercial doesn't necessarily matter. It matters what people think and what they're dealing with in their everyday lives.
And I know people are dealing with 40-year high inflation. I know that they know that the border is a disaster. And you got joe, Biden. Saying after the November election, he's not going to change a thing.
And I just think there's a lot of Georgians that want things to change in Washington, DC. And they want people fighting to lower gas prices and lower 40-year high inflation. Interest rates are going up.
I mean, it's, you know, a lot of people starting to get laid off, big companies that are out there. Thankfully, our economy has been more insulated than most around the country, and we're very thankful and blessed by that, but we don't want to risk that continuing.
You talked about lessons learned after the last runoff election. What are those lessons? Well, I think that's one reason we controlled our destiny on our ground game, which we've turned over to the Senate Leadership Fund.
And they're out there working. They're knocking on doors. We're getting people to the polls, which is what this race is all about. And we built something pretty special here that worked and didn't just work for me.
It worked for the rest of the Republicans on the state ticket. And we're trying to make that work, hopefully, in this runoff. We'll find out next Tuesday. Since I last saw you, Georgia's highest court has reinstated an abortion ban.
After six weeks, it put on hold a decision by a lower court that overturned that 2019 law that you signed into law. If the appeals court comes back and overturns the law, what will you do? Well, we're going to keep fighting the legal process.
We knew three years ago when we passed this bill that it was going to take a long time to get it through the courts and to get it implemented. And we knew there would be a lot of people fighting us. But that's the path that we've taken, and that's what we'll do.
And so we're just going to wait and see what the court does, and then we'll reassess. I believe that they will uphold our law, and it will be implemented. Let me get your reaction to something that former President Trump has been under fire for in recent days, which is having dinner with.
Nick Fuentes, this outspoken white supremacist, and antisemite? Well, I just put a statement out there. I'll let that statement speak for itself. I mean, that was a bad decision. There's no place for that in the Republican Party.
I know he's got, you know, his answer to that question, and I'll let him speak to that but my views on that are very clear. He has defended it, saying he was a guest of Kanye West, who was his guest, but he hasn't criticized or denounced the statements that we've seen this hateful language from Nick Fuentes.
Well, listen, I am not privy to who said what and all of that. I'll just let my statement speak for itself. It's very clear. In recent days, you have filed paperwork to create a federal pact of your own.
It makes people wonder if you've got some of your future national ambitions, what would you tell them? I would tell them that we're working hard to get Herschel Walker elected to the United States Senate.
And that's what people in Georgia need to stay focused on. We cannot get distracted by other things. And so that packs designed to do that, but also to help federal candidates in the future. In our state, what we built with our ground game and the Georgians First Committee was very effective at the state level, and we want to have that same tool available to help some of our friends that may be serving in Congress or perhaps other nominees or other folks in the future.
So we thought it was wise to do that, to capitalize off of really a great effort that we put together and to continue to build off that to keep our state in good hands and have people in Washington, DC.
That is voting Georgia Values. Could that be to help other people who are running for the Republican nomination for president? Potentially. Well, that's not what the focus is. You need to worry about next Tuesday.
That's what I'm worried about, staying focused on getting hurtled over the goal lines. Next Tuesday is obviously what everyone's eyes are on. But you did see the former president announce that he will be running in 2024.
But I did see that. Would you support him in that run? Well, I haven't seen who else is going to run, so I'm gonna keep focused on getting hers elected to the United States Senate. We do not need to get distracted.
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