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Herschel Walker Agrees to Debate

August 3, 2022 at 4:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Georgia U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker (R) “said he would participate in an Oct. 14 debate in Savannah against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) amid pressure from his allies and criticism from Democrats who mocked him for refusing to commit to a showdown,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Said Walker to Fox News: “I want people to see the difference.”

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Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

August 3, 2022 at 11:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Everybody are mentally crazy. But some people handle it better than others.”

— Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R), at a town hall meeting yesterday.

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Georgia Races Are Very Close

July 29, 2022 at 8:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Fox News poll in Georgia finds Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) leading challenger Herschel Walker (R) by four points, 46% to 42%.

In the gubernatorial race, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) leads challenger Stacey Abrams (D) by three points, 47% to 44%.

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Warnock Opens Up Big Lead in Georgia

July 27, 2022 at 10:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new SurveyUSA poll in Georgia finds Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) leading challenger Herschel Walker (R) by 9 points, 48% to 39%.

In the race for governor, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) leads challenger Stacey Abrams (D) by just one point, 45% to 44%.

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Warnock Accuses Herschel Walker of Dodging Debates

July 26, 2022 at 10:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) put out a new ad urging challenger Herschel Walker (R) to commit to debates in their Senate race.

Atlanta Journal Constitution: “The time and place have been named… Walker, however, still hasn’t confirmed any dates, and some GOP political observers don’t think he will. Instead, he has made a sport of moving the goalposts for the events, drawing attention away from other issues that have dogged his Senate bid.”

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Herschel Walker Claimed He Was an FBI Agent

July 19, 2022 at 10:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A video from 2019 shows Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) falsely claiming that he was an FBI agent. He then told a story about grabbing a gun with the intent to kill someone.

At the same event, Walker said his “favorite game” was Russian Roulette.

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Herschel Walker Claims He’s Ready to Debate

July 13, 2022 at 9:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) “accepted invitations to three debates in late June, there’s been relative crickets from Republican Herschel Walker’s camp. The spate of recent campaign controversies has only fueled more questions about whether he’ll take part,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

But the former football star sounded like he was still open to the idea on Tuesday: “I feel a debate is coming. A couple of weeks ago, his campaign talked about a debate but I don’t think they’ve contacted my group yet. But I’m ready for a debate. The last time I was on, I told you guys I’m ready for a debate whenever he’s ready.”

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Raphael Warnock Is a Fundraising Machine

July 13, 2022 at 6:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) set the latest in a string of fundraising records by collecting $17.2 million between April and June, ending the quarter with roughly $22.2 million in the bank for a race that could decide control of the Senate,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

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But They Didn’t Quit

July 11, 2022 at 1:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Amanda Carpenter: “Herschel Walker is, by any measure, a flawed candidate. It’s a fact readily observable to anyone with a basic familiarity with his confessed history of self-harm, acts of violence against others, whack-a-doodle beliefs, and steady stream of lies about his supposed academic and business achievements.”

“Walker was audacious enough to lie to his aides about the secret children he fathered, even when they confronted him with irrefutable evidence of paternity.”

“But what those aides did in response is telling: They didn’t quit. Instead, they vented to the Daily Beast about what a ‘pathological liar’ Walker is and how the campaign is ‘like a shitshow on a train in the middle of a wreck.’ Anonymously, of course.”

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Herschel Walker Once Partnered with Deceptive Company

July 8, 2022 at 10:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker was once a ‘partner’ and ‘spokesman’ for a subsidiary of an energy company, Just Energy, which was repeatedly targeted by states’ attorneys general and utility agencies over allegedly deceptive practices,” CNN reports.

“Though much of Walker’s business record — and lawsuits and false claims around it — have been widely covered, his ties to Just Energy have not been scrutinized.”

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Quote of the Day

July 8, 2022 at 9:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A campaign’s worst nightmare. Like a shitshow on a train in the middle of a wreck.”

— A source inside Herschel Walker’s U.S. Senate campaign, quoted by the Daily Beast, on the candidate’s repeated lying.

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Walker Lied About His Secret Kids to His Own Campaign

July 7, 2022 at 10:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“When Herschel Walker’s campaign aides approached him this winter to discuss whispers that Walker had a secret child, the Georgia GOP’s Senate candidate told his campaign the rumors were false,” the Daily Beast reports.

“Walker’s aides already knew he was lying.”

“They had expected him to lie, and had obtained documents in advance of that conversation verifying that Walker did indeed have another child… They handed the documents to him, and after some more back and forth, Walker finally admitted it was true. His aides asked if there were any other children they needed to know about. Walker insisted this was it.”

Said a campaign adviser: “He’s lied so much that we don’t know what’s true.”

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Tim Scott Runs Ads In Nevada and Georgia

July 6, 2022 at 4:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), up for reelection this year and considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate, is running direct-to-camera television ads in Nevada and in Georgia at a cost of nearly $2 million to boost his party’s candidates for Senate in those closely-watched races, Politico reports.

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Warnock Used Campaign Funds to Fight Personal Lawsuit

July 6, 2022 at 10:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) used campaign money to cover legal expenses for a lawsuit relating to his time as a church minister — transactions that raise questions about whether the spending runs afoul of federal rules governing personal use of campaign funds,” Politico reports.

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Warnock Jumps to Big Lead Over Walker

June 29, 2022 at 5:18 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Quinnipiac poll in Georgia shows Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) jumping out to a double-digit lead over Republican challenger Herschel Walker (R), 54% to 44%.

In the matchup for governor, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and challenger Stacey Abrams (D) are tied at 48% each.

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Herschel Walker Says There Are 52 States

June 22, 2022 at 4:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) told the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show that there were 52 states in the country while attempting to criticize Stacey Abrams (D) for saying Georgia is “the worst state in the country to live.”

Said Walker: “If you don’t believe in the country, leave and go somewhere else. If it’s the worst state, why are you here? Why don’t you leave ― go to another? There’s, what, 51 more other states that you can go to?”

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How Herschel Walker Explained His Mental Illness

June 21, 2022 at 7:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) explained in an old interview why he didn’t think his Multiple Personality Disorder is a mental illness.

Said Walker: “Do our Lord Jesus Christ have a mental illness because he said he’s the father, the son and the Holy Spirit? To me, those are 3 different personalities.”

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Bonus Quote of the Day

June 17, 2022 at 9:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Saying I hide my children because I don’t discuss them with reporters to win a campaign? That’s outrageous. I can take the heat, that’s politics — but leave my kids alone.”

— Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R), quoted by the Washington Post, after reporters discovered he has three more children than he’s admitted.

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