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Warnock carries ‘swingiest’ county in Georgia

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Dec 7, 2022

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock narrowly flipped Georgia’s most competitive county, an encouraging sign for his tight runoff against Republican Herschel Walker.

Returns showed the Democrat carrying the middle Georgia county by about 1 percentage point, which Walker narrowly won in November.

To find out where voters in the area stood, Mark Davis went to Baldwin County for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to find out.

Read his story here.

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