Former New Jersey Generals running back and Verona resident Herschel Walker now trails incumbent Raphael Warnock by 10 percentage points in a contest for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
The poll gives Warnock, the winner of a 2020 special election, in a 54%-44% lead over Walker, the Republican nominee. The race had been a dead heat in a January Quinnipiac poll.
“Herschel Walker fumbles on honesty and tumbles on favorability as Raphael Warnock surges ahead in the race for senator,” said Tim Malloy, a Quinnipiac polling analyst.
Walker lived in Verona from 1983 to 1985 while playing for the USFL team owned by Donald Trump. He continued to own his apartment at the Claridge House on Pompton Avenue until around 1995, after an NFL career took him to the Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, and in 1995, with the New York Giants.
If Walker wins, it could mean three Essex County men will be serving in the U.S. Senate: New Jersey’s Cory Booker lives in Newark, and Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly, who is also up for re-election this year, grew up in West Orange. Another New Jerseyan, Dr. Mehmet Oz of Cliffside Park, is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania.
The same poll puts Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams in a statistical tie, with each candidate polling at 48%.
The poll was conducted between June 23-27 with a sample size of 1,497 registered voters and a margin of error of +/- 5%.
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