Could Georgia Libertarian Decide Winner of WarnockWalker Runoff?

Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver ended up with a little more than two percent of vote. Warnock, finished 0.6 percent

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Chase Oliver had to fit his campaign for Senate into the spare hours he had left over after his two day jobs. The 37-year-old ran the operation out of his basement, with four staffers, and help from friends. Every Saturday morning for the last several months, he would wake up early, drive his beat-up Toyota Corolla to a different neighborhood and start knocking on doors. Voters, he says, “were very happy that they got to hear from a candidate directly — even if they weren’t voting for me.”

Almost 4 million Georgians cast ballots on Tuesday. Most cast them for Sen. Raphael Warnock, or his celebrity challenger, the former football star Herschel Walker. And then there was the small but mighty slice of the electorate that stuck it to the two-party system and threw their support behind Oliver, the Libertarian candidate. He ended up with a little more than two percent of the vote.

Warnock, meanwhile, finished 0.6 percent shy of the 50 percent he needed to avoid a runoff.

The Warnock-Walker rematch is now set for December 6. By forcing Warnock and Walker into a runoff, Oliver’s scrapy candidacy has already had an outsize influence on the midterm elections.

And with the ear of more than 80,000 Georgia voters, he may have even more influence left to exert.
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/georgia-senate-runoff-walker-warnock-libertarian-1234628538/

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