Warnock<\/a> holding a narrower lead over Republican challenger Herschel Walker, 50% to 47%.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn both races, the Republicans lead among older voters, while the Democrats hold the advantage among women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kemp is 15 points ahead of Abrams among voters at least 50 years old 56% to 41%, while Walker leads Warnock among older voters 52% to 46%, according to the survey, conducted by the bipartisan polling team of Fabrizio Ward & impact Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kemp also enjoys a 27-point lead among men who took part in the polls, while Abrams is up 11% among women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Warnock has a much larger lead among women, with 58% of the female vote to 39% for Walker, the main driver in Warnock\u2019s overall lead, according to a news release distributed with the poll results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The polling firm credited Kemp\u2019s overall lead to his 14-point edge over Abrams among independent voters. Warnock leads Walker by 3% among independents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The poll found Kemp with a favorable image among 50% of the survey participants, while 46% found Abrams favorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Warnock\u2019s image was evenly divided at 47% favorable and 47% unfavorable. Walker was judged favorable by 41%, with 49% viewing him as unfavorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The polling firm interviewed 1,197 likely Georgia voters between July 5 and July 11, including a statewide representative sample of 500 likely voters. Interviews were conducted via landline telephone, cellphone and online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Depending on the category of voters interviewed, the poll\u2019s margins of error varied from plus-or-minus 3.4% to plus-or-minus 4.9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This story is available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=9]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being from different political parties, the two incumbents atop the Georgia ballot this year are leading their respective races, according to a new poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[11861,8484,8514,8745,8645,8727],"class_list":["post-38157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-2022-election","tag-brian-kemp","tag-election","tag-herschel-walker","tag-raphael-warnock","tag-stacey-abrams","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}