Walker impresses in Georgia Senate race

 Washington Examiner:

...

“He has been running a solid race,” said a Republican operative in Washington who initially worried about Walker’s viability and opposed his candidacy. “The fact that he has a good team and has been listening to their advice is one of the major reasons why he was able to win [Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell] and our orbit over.”

The name of Walker’s super PAC derives from the number he wore on his jersey in the NFL and the University of Georgia — also a reference to the election year. Federal law prohibits the Walker campaign from running the super PAC or coordinating with it. But 34N22 has his blessing. The group’s chairman is wealthy Texas entrepreneur Bryan Elliot, a longtime friend and confidant who has founded and managed a range of businesses.

Elliott oversaw the hiring process for 34N22 and decided which consultants to sign. To handle media strategy and polling, he tapped Guy Harrison and Wes Anderson, respectively. The two veteran GOP consultants are partners at the top Washington firm, On Message Inc. The chief fundraiser for 34N22 is Katie Benke, Denver-based finance director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in the 2018 election cycle under then-Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado.

Chris Homan, based in Dallas, is the super PAC’s general consultant.

In 2020, Homan guided Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne to victory in a congressional district with urban and suburban communities that saw President Joe Biden defeat Trump by roughly 19,000 votes. That achievement impressed Elliott because Walker must do the same thing in Georgia to dislodge Warnock. Austin Barbour, Mississippi-based, is running digital strategy — and 34N22 is already up with an $85,000 digital ad buy targeting “persuadable” Georgia voters.

Stephen Lawson, a Republican strategist in Atlanta who worked on former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s 2020 campaign, is advising 34N22 on communications strategy. In a telephone interview Thursday, Lawson discussed the super PAC’s strategy, saying the group was planning a “multimillion” effort to focus on swing voters, an estimated 4% of the Georgia electorate by 34N22 strategists.

“We’re going to really be carrying a lot of the water in terms of exposing and defining Warnock, that’s the lane we’re going to run in,” said Lawson, a veteran of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis 2018 campaign and Florida Sen. Rick Scott’s 2014 gubernatorial bid.

...

Warnock is not an impressive figure and he has made the mistake of being in lockstep with Pelosi, Schumer et al.  The Democrats in Congress are some of the most unpopular figures in politics these days.  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

Washington Post: Some Democrats eye adding more justices to the Supreme Court to change its ideological bent The once-remote idea has gained the attention of liberals angered by the GOP push to remake the federal courts. Probably the easy way to defeat this court-packing scheme is for Trump to propose doing the same thing now.  It would lead to Democrat denunciations and claims that it would be wrong, thereby blowing up any attempt by them in the unfortunate event of Democrats winning a presidential election.
Read more

29 % of companies say they are unlikely to keep insurance after Obamacare

Conn Carroll: A new survey of 368 midsize to large companies found that 29% of them are considering terminating their active employee health care plans when Obamacare is full implemented in 2014. Only 71% of employers surveyed said they did not expect to drop their health coverage, while 20% said they did not know and 9% said they were planning to exit. The latest survey, conducted by Towers Watson, echoes an ealier survey by McKinsey & Co. finding that 30% of private-sector employers were planning to drop their employee health insurance coverage by 2014. When the Congressional Budget Office crunched Obamacare's spending numbers, they estimated that only 7% of employees currently covered by employer-sponsored plans would lose their plans. ... This means the cost of the health care fiasco will be hundreds of billions more than estimated by the CBO and Congressional Democrat. It is also clear that Obama's pledge that you could keep your health care plan if you wanted t
Read more

Bin Laden's concern about Zarqawi's remains

James Robbins: ... Bin Laden suggests that President Bush should allow Zarqawi’s body to be returned to his family in Jordan, but this is a matter that is up to the Jordanian government, which so far has not shown much interest in facilitating a homecoming. Bin Laden mocks King Abdullah II, calling him a Coalition minion, and asking “w hat scares you about Abu Musab after he’s dead? You know that his funeral, if allowed to happen, would be a huge funeral showing the extent of sympathy with the mujahedin.” A large crowd would definitely turn out, though most people would be on hand to demonstrate their anger and disgust. Last November’s hotel bombings in Amman , masterminded by Zarqawi, are still fresh in people’s memory, and mentioning them to Jordanians has the same visceral impact as memory of the 9/11 attacks does here. Jordan has adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards those who choose to mourn the country’s least favorite son, and four opposition members of parliament who paid con
Read more