Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker is no stranger when it comes to controversy and his private life being exposed.
Most recently, Walker has faced a huge dip in his latest poll numbers following his latest controversial allegations, which could stand in the way of unseating incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock.
On Monday a news media outlet accused Walker, who is outspokenly anti-choice, paid for a woman to abort his child back in 2009. Walker denied the allegations vehemently and was outraged at their audacity to accuse him of such a thing.
On its own, it’s an allegation he could probably overcome, much like other scandals that have routinely popped up throughout his campaign and quickly faded out of voters’ memory. However, what really called his candidacy into question was how his own son, a popular right-wing social media personality, reacted.
Christian Walker, 23, aligns with his father on most political issues. The two are pro-MAGA, anti-“woke” and prominent contributors to the far-right culture wars.
Since the day that Walker tossed his hat into the ring for the Georgia battleground race, Christian had appeared to support him, excitedly endorsing the campaign in a podcast episode on the day his candidacy was declared.
Despite his usual support, Christian’s public attitude toward his father changed in a series of tweets suggesting Walker should not be trusted.
“I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us,” Christian wrote on Twitter Monday night. “You’re not a ‘family man’ when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence.”
In a later follow-up tweet, Christian wrote, “I don’t care about someone who has a bad past and takes accountability. But how DARE YOU LIE and act as though you’re some ‘moral, Christian, upright man.’ You’ve lived a life of DESTROYING other peoples lives. How dare you.”
Christian then posted two videos in support of his claims that Walker was an absentee father to all his children and liked to downplay his acts committed against his ex-wife.
During their marriage, Grossman claimed that Walker held a gun to her head while they were married, which he chalked up to his dissociative identity disorder; court records show she obtained a protective order against him three years after their divorce.
“I was silent lie after lie after lie,” Christian said in one of the videos, before accusing Walker of continuing to lie this week by denying that he paid for a former girlfriend’s abortion. “It’s literally his handwriting displayed on a post-abortion get well card.”
For most of the 2022 election cycle, Walker has been viewed as Republicans’ best hope for taking back the Senate, currently split 50-50 with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie in Democrats’ favor.
Walker entered the race with momentum, backed by family friend Donald Trump, but has routinely faced criticism as unglamorous moments from his past surface.
Even in the face of scandal, Walker has chugged along in his campaign. Prior to this week he was sitting at an average of only 2.1 points behind Warnock in polls.
One B-rated poll conducted by InsiderAdvantage on Tuesday showed Warnock leading Walker 47% to 44%, which placed Walker within the margin of error. But an A-rated poll conducted by SurveyUSA over the past five days put Warnock 12% ahead, alluding to a dark cloud looming over Walker’s head in the final weeks of the election.
Hershel hasn’t done any worse than Warnock who is absolutely CRAZY. My vote is still with Hershel as he seems to have cleaned up his life and has regrets. I wouldn’t vote for Warnock if he was the last idiot on earth.
It’s so funny how the media scum don’t talk about anyone else but the republicans that they so despise that they lie, cheat and cover up any thing that could hurt their scum bag democrats. So if the people of Georgia are going to be decieved by these scum, they deserve the outcome. The same is true in NY, or how about NJ where Bob Menedez was shown to be a pedaphile and the press and FBI dropped the coverage and case. We’re in a fucked up time, the democrats are becoming the totalitarian, and acussing the republicans of racism, lying and evrything they’re actually doing. With the help of the media and the swamp they have convinced the stupid of this country that they are trying to stop what they are making. Untill we start busting heads they will keep going, until they have total authority. Then we’ll be terrorist.
I couldn’t have said it better myself!
So sick of these DEMONRATS with their lies, hypocrisy, and failed policies! They are Godless demonic creatures! Or should I say, their God is Satan 🤮👿💀
Exactly!