Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will campaign with Republican senate candidate Herschel Walker on Saturday. He committed to help Walker win his run-off race against Democrat incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock after a run-off became necessary. Warnock had a very slim victory against Walker and didn’t win 50% of the vote, which shows vulnerability for an incumbent. Walker can win the race if he stays on track.

The campaign event in suburban Cobb County marks the first major public campaign rally with the two men. Republicans in Georgia are working to mobilize voters for the December 6 run-off. There is a particular focus on Georgians who voted a split ticket in the general election. Those voters voted for Governor Kemp, who soundly kicked Stacey Abrams butt in his re-election bid, and then they voted for Warnock instead of Walker for the Senate. It makes no sense. Kemp is a traditional conservative and Warnock is a standard run-of-the-mill progressive happy to fall in line and vote 100% of the time for Joe Biden’s extreme agenda. Voters chose to go with the incumbents, the politicians they knew rather than take a chance on Walker and help put the Senate in Republican control.

The event will be at Adventure Outdoor (the world’s largest gun store!) in Smyrna at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. During the general election, the governor and Walker had a rather stand-offish relationship. They didn’t campaign together and Kemp focused on supporting the entire Republican ticket, not just the Senate race. Walker refused to say he supported Kemp during the GOP primary and expressed his frustration that Perdue and Kemp were running against each other. Perhaps he felt like he was in an awkward position. Walker has Trump’s endorsement. It was Trump who convinced him to run. Trump, however, would have been happy with Kemp’s defeat for his own selfish reasons from 2020. Fortunately, Kemp is very popular in Georgia and he was re-elected.

Kemp focuses on economic issues and blames Biden for the highest inflation rate in forty years. Walker tends to focus more on culture war issues on the campaign trail to throw red meat at conservatives. The general election is over now and times have changed. Kemp is stepping up in a big way for Walker.

Now, Kemp could be pivotal to Walker’s election quest. He directed his prized get-out-the-vote machine to help Walker, who finished the general election trailing Warnock by less than 1 percentage point, or roughly 35,000 votes out of more than 3.9 million cast.

And senior GOP strategists hope the governor, fresh off a rematch victory over Abrams, can help convince wary Republicans concerned about Walker’s personal baggage and fitness for the job to swallow their misgivings. They see the governor as a uniquely powerful messenger to those skeptical voters.

In all, Walker received roughly 200,000 fewer votes than Kemp. Walker’s drop-off was particularly pronounced in metro Atlanta, a nexus of mainstream Republicans where Donald Trump also struggled. But Walker also fared surprisingly poorly in deep-red areas of North Georgia.

In eight counties, Walker ran at least 6 percentage points behind Kemp. And in 47 others, his totals were 4 to 6 points lower than Kemp’s tally. If Walker had matched Kemp’s vote total just in Fulton County, he would have won the election outright.

Perhaps Kemp can be a calming influence on Walker and can keep him focused in his stump speech. Walker is getting some press over a kinda weird story he told as he tried to encourage people to have faith in our country and in fellow Americans.

I was watching this movie called Fright Night,” he began, likely referring to the 1985 Tom Holland film about a young man who discovers his next-door neighbor is a vampire.

“I don’t know if you know, but vampires are some cool people, are they not?” asked Mr Walker, before pointing out something that was apparently only recently revealed to him: “let me tell you something that I found out: a werewolf can kill a vampire.”

Because of this, Mr Walker conceded, he no longer wanted “to be a vampire”, but instead concluded that, “I wanna be a werewolf”.

The GOP challenger to incumbent Mr Warnock then launched into a long rant about the movie and the machinations for killing the fictitious character – “because you know, you gotta have a stake, gotta have a thing to kill him in the heart”.

After spinning the yarn on stage for a few minutes, Mr Walker then attempted to circle the narrative back to the conversation of faith, pointing out that killing vampire with a cross was only possible if a person had “faith”.

“It don’t even work unless you’ve got faith,” he said. “We gotta have faith in our fellow brother, gotta have faith in this country.”

Let’s hope Walker doesn’t waste time talking about vampires and werewolves any more and instead concentrates on the horror of the Senate under unlimited control by Democrats if Republicans don’t get the advantage of another senator – him – in the Senate. If Walker wins, the committees will have to be split 50/50 and Democrats won’t be able to easily ram through Biden’s radical agenda. That is a horror movie none of us want to see for the next two years.