Raphael Warnock Won't Support the Braves
Oh boy.
They debated in Savannah. Just read the tweet from Greg Bluestein at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and you’ll get the gist of how it went:
Warnock refused to support the Braves’ team name, even as they played during the debate (and lost 😥).
Stacey Abrams cost businesses around the teepee1 where the Braves play over $10 million with her drive to get Major League Baseball to boycott Georgia with the All Star game.
Now Warnock won’t support the team publicly, even though the American Indian tribes do. The Braves even have a night dedicated to the Indian tribes, and the tribes not only signed off on the team name but also the tomahawk chop.
And still Warnock won’t embrace it.
Walker landed some strong blows too against Warnock.
But here’s the thing — the Warnock team scored points. The Walker team scored points.
What do you think is really going to resonate?
Warnock won’t stand up for the Braves. Warnock is too woke for the suburbs.
Here’s the Political Insider writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who herself is a liberal and former writer for the Daily Beast, and a former staffer for Democratic Senators.
The press says Walker had a good debate. And Warnock won’t support the Braves.
Truist Park — the T.P. or teepee. I refuse to call it Truist Park because “Truist” is one of the stupidest marketing names of all time and they could have gone with Hank Aaron park or Turner Park or something, but sold rights to a bank that decided to call itself a made up word. So it is the teepee.
Still hard to believe these two were the best GA could come up with to run for senate. (I voted for Kelvin King.)
But I'll hold my nose and vote for Walker.
I watched the debate (last 45 minutes of it) and was impressed by Walker’s performance.
I hate debates, but I watch them all.
Create a scorecard:
- answers the question
- skirts the question
- ignores the question
- refers to talking points
- answers the question, and reinforces message
If you watch this debate objectively, and want to know who won it? Then assign your own point system to this criteria.
Then if you don’t get the result you were hoping for? Reassign points.
Then look at your criteria and ask if it matches with who should be your next senator.
For me personally, had Walker referred to talking points while avoiding answers, I would have given him the loss.
Had Warnock brought new ideas to the debate and not been so predictable, he would have won the debate.
But the tipping point for me, was after, I turned to my less-biased wife and asked her what she thought.
Watch the debate with someone you love and listen more than you talk.