The youth vote is coming out in Georgia.
A new AARP poll shows incumbent Raphael Warnock leading football legend Herschel Walker by a whopping 24 percentage points among voters aged 18-49 in the Senate runoff race.
Meantime, Walker leads by nine points among voters aged 50 or older, the poll shows.
Overall, the poll has the Democratic Warnock with a narrow lead, 51% to 47%, over Republican challenger Walker.
Additionally, data from Georgia's Secretary of State shows that in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, the third highest turnout is 18-24 year-olds, behind 50-54 year-olds and 55-60 year-olds.
The numbers indicate that the state's strong line of messaging to encourage families to vote together may be well received, as the parents of 18-24 year-olds are likely between the ages of 50 and 60.
Statewide, voters age 18-24 are the fifth largest turnout (9.9%) as of Monday morning. The largest turnout (12.6%) is among voters age 55-60.
Early voting in Georgia kicked off this weekend in the Dec. 6 U.S. Senate runoff between Sen. Warnock and Walker, after the Georgia Supreme Court rejected an emergency request from Republicans to block counties from offering early voting on Saturday. More than 181,000 voters have already cast their ballots.
Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer for Georgia's Secretary of State, Sunday turnout of 86,937 voters was 130% higher than the previous Sunday record of 37,785 set on October 25, 2020. Quentin Fulks, Warnock's campaign manager, elaborated to say Sunday's turnout was higher than on any Sunday in the 2018, 2020 and 2022 general elections, or in the 2021 Senate runoff.
Sterling said the state is seeing "monster early vote turnout" that is "blowing doors," adding that the amount of people voting Monday is on pace to set the record for the highest turnout ever.
"As of 2pm we have had 165,784 Georgians cast their early votes. This could be the biggest early voting day ever in Georgia election history," Sterling tweeted.
Early voting will continue through Friday.
The special runoff election was ordered under Georgia law after neither candidate received a majority of the vote in the general election earlier this month. Although Warnock led Walker by roughly 35,000 votes, he did not meet the 50% threshold for an outright win.
Even though control of the Senate isn't at stake anymore for Democrats, a close eye is being kept on the runoff election.
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