{"id":53684,"date":"2022-12-07T03:33:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53684"},"modified":"2022-12-07T03:33:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:33:31","slug":"senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53684","title":{"rendered":"Warnock wins! I can breathe now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">OK. There will be plenty to say in the days to come about what the nation has just witnessed in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock has been re-elected to a new six-year term. It was a nail-biter. Frankly, I did not believe Sen. Warnock would have this kind of difficulty securing his victory over Republican Herschel Walker.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2026 he did.<\/p>\n<p>What I am going to try to assess over the immediate term is how in the world Walker held up as a serious candidate for the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>I am shaking my head at the prospect that Walker actually could win this race. I am delighted, though, to know that Sen. Walker is returning to his post in the Senate. He is a good man who \u2014 as he pointed out during his campaign \u2014 actually \u201cknows what he is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK. There will be plenty to say in the days to come about what the nation has just witnessed in Georgia. Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock has been re-elected to a new six-year term. It was a nail-biter. Frankly, I did not believe Sen. Warnock would have this kind of difficulty securing his victory over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53684\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warnock wins! I can breathe now<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1343,1941,5051,10077,10076],"class_list":["post-53684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-democrats","tag-gop","tag-us-senate","tag-walker","tag-warnock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53685,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53684\/revisions\/53685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}