Things are heating up in Georgia.

In what is expected to be one of the most expensive and closely watched races this year Republican Senate challenger Herschel Walker is leading Democrat Raphael Warnock according to the latest poll by The Hill/Emerson College.

The Hill reports:

Warnock, who won a special election in 2021 and is now running for a full term, is supported by 45 percent of registered voters in the poll released Wednesday, while Walker is backed by 49 percent of voters.

Sen. Warnock’s dip in the polls also comes as he faces allegations from his ex-wife that he has neglected visitation with his two young children and failing to pay childcare expenses.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Fulton County Superior Court judge Shermela J. Williams said on Friday that there were “numerous unresolved issues” between Warnock and his ex-wife Oulèye Ndoye, and ordered the couple to try to reach a mediated settlement by May 7. A status hearing in the case was also scheduled for May 16, with both Warnock and Ndoye required to attend, according to a notice from the judge on Monday.

In a court filing in February, Ndoye accused Warnock of leaving her “financially strapped” by refusing to reimburse her for childcare expenses. She said Warnock also “routinely neglects” to give her notice when he is traveling out of town during his visitation days, and instead has the children “picked up from school by friends and [leaves] them with various babysitters overnight” while he is away.

Ndoye claimed Warnock also refused to return personal items that were awarded to her in divorce agreement. She asked the court to hold him in contempt for violating the custody order and that it be revised to allow her to move the children to Massachusetts, where she plans to attend a program at Harvard.

Ndoye accused Warnock of driving over her foot during an argument in 2020, a charge he has denied. Warnock and Ndoye married in 2016 and divorced in 2020.