"You have to know stuff to get things done in the upper chamber," said Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, questioning Republican candidate Herschel Walker's readiness for office.
During a rally that was attended by former President Barack Obama and Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, a man called out his opponent for what he said were indicators that he was not running to serve the people of the state.
During a debate earlier this month, Walker said that people who needed to eat right should.
"We live in a state where 11 percent of the adults have diabetes, and that's a drug that's been around 100 years and they're price gouging theinsulin," he said. Do you know what my opponent said when I pointed out the ways in which bad corporate actors are abusing a drug that has been around for 100 years? They just need to eat right, according to him.
I'm holding the pharmaceutical companies accountable while he blames the people of Georgia. If you love the people, you can lead them. It's not possible to love the people unless you walk among them.
Walker was zinged for his lack of fitness to serve in the Senate.
The senator said that you have to know what you're doing to do it.
Walker, a former University of Georgia football player, is running against Warnock for a full six-year term next month.
Walker, who has the backing of former President Donald Trump and the GOP political leadership in Washington, DC, is a first-time candidate who has sought to make the race a referendum of President Joe Biden over economic issues.
His work in capping the cost of prescription drugs for senior citizens, along with his bipartisan efforts to ease trade regulations for Georgia peanut farmers, his push for the Biden administration to move forward with a student-loan forgiveness plan, and his vote to confirm now-Associate are some of the things that
The race remains close as the campaign enters its final days with both sides seeking to ramp up turnout in the Peach State, which supported Democrats in the last election cycle.