US Senator Raphael Warnock won reelection in a run-off vote in Georgia last night. The unofficial tally with 99% of precincts reporting has him leading 51.6% to 48.4%. It's a margin of almost 100,000 votes.

I am glad that Warnock won and simultaneously bothered that his challenger, former football star Herschel Walker, came so close. Walker is a clown. He embarrasses himself every time he speaks in public. The man can barely string two sentences together! When challenged on every policy position he claims to hold he quickly reveals he doesn't actually understand anything he supposedly stands for. He falls into word soup of non sequiturs, outright false statements, and conspiracy theories.

It's so obvious that Walker's nomination was a cynical exercise by Republican party leaders. They picked someone with name recognition— and, better yet, a Black man with name recognition to "prove" how they're not racist— who would talk the conservative talk, even as story after story emerged that he didn't actually walk the walk. And nearly half of Georgia voters fell for the transparently obvious ruse.