Hispanic voters in Georgia are split over their choice for governor, but their preference in the U.S. Senate race is much clearer, with Republican challenger Herschel Walker edging out incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, according to a poll released Wednesday.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Georgia News Collaborative poll puts Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams at 49% and incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp at 48% among likely Hispanic voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5.6 percentage points. Walker’s lead over Warnock is greater, 47% to 41%, with Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver pulling in 11% of the vote.
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The poll was conducted on Oct. 11-12 from a pool of 309 likely voters who self-identified as Hispanic or Latino.
Republicans and Democrats have been courting Hispanic voters more and more in the Peach State, confident that the growing bloc could be key in winning multiple tight races, including the one for the U.S. Senate, which could determine which party controls the upper chamber of Congress.
Georgia shattered early voting records on Monday, with nearly 123,000 in-person voters casting their ballots, according to state election officials.
“This blows away the previous midterm first-day record of approximately 72,000, and we have lots of voting to go today,” Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer at the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, tweeted Monday.
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The big numbers put Georgia on pace to surpass the 3.9 million voters who cast ballots during the last midterm election season.
