Republican Herschel Walker pledges to sue over report he paid for abortion – live | US
Walker campaign crisis in Georgia over abortion row turns heat up further in furious midterms battle for Senate
Herschel Walker, the controversial Republican candidate in Georgia for a vital US Senate seat, is attempting to weather the latest tempest that has tossed his midterm election campaign from turbulent into full-blown crisis.
The news broke last night that the former NFL football player turned political candidate, who is campaigning on a hard anti-abortion line, had paid for an abortion for a former girlfriend in 2009, according to a report by the Daily Beast.
As the Beast puts it in the strap below the headline to its report: “The woman has receipts – and a ‘get well’ card she says the football star, now a Senate candidate, sent her.”
Walker blasted out a top-line denial via Twitter, calling the story overall a flat-out lie, also calling it a “Democrat attack”, while the Beast insists its article is backed up to the hilt. Walker says he’ll sue the Beast today.
Regarding the latest Democrat attack: pic.twitter.com/OjrDcGak95
— Herschel Walker (@HerschelWalker) October 3, 2022
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He also appeared on Fox News to blame politics, saying: “Now everyone knows how important this seat is and they [Democrats] will do anything to win this seat. They wanted to make it about anything except inflation, crime and the border being wide open.”
But Walker’s son, 23-year-old Christian Walker, then responded on Twitter. Yikes.
I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us.
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.
— Christian Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) October 4, 2022
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I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us.
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.
— Christian Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) October 4, 2022
And:
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 Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) October 4, 2022
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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 Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) October 4, 2022
The sitting Senator from Georgia whom Herschel Walker is challenging, Democrat Raphael Warnock, is striving to stay above the fray – maybe hoping the former running back will be hoisted by his own petard?
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The US president was joined in the call by vice president Kamala Harris, the White House said in a statement, Reuters reports.
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The president underscored that Washington will never recognize Russian annexation of Ukrainian territory, it added.
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Biden:
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pledged to continue supporting Ukraine as it defends itself from Russian aggression for as long as it takes,” the statement said.
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Check out all the Guardian’s detailed reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine here, and you can follow our global live blog on the war here.
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When the latest chapter of Herschel Walker’s tumultuous campaign for the Senate unfolded last night, the former NFL player noted that he was going to sue the Daily Beast the following morning.
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It looks like the ex-running back is now running back on that. Is morning AM or just, before lunch? No sign yet of a suit from the GOP candidate in his Senate race against incumbent and Democrat, Raphael Warnock.
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Was it a bluff? There’s also been mention that maybe it’s coming tomorrow morning. It remains to be seen how voters will respond to all this. The Daily Beast reported last night that despite being an anti-abortion fundamentalist in his campaigning in these mid-terms, in the past Walker paid for an ex to have an abortion. He’s called that story a flat-out lie, though, with close scrutiny, his denials are not as watertight as he’d like them to sound.
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Critics are salivating about what might surface in discovery if Walker plowed ahead with a lawsuit, to say nothing of success being very much against the odds for him even if he had a flawless reputation in such a suit in the US, anyway.
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Who wants to bet Hershel will NEVER file suit? The Discovery will destroy his case.
Now- every woman who was paid by a congressman in office now to have an abortion should come forward before the elections to expose the hypocrisy.
— Carmela (@denise_yak) October 4, 2022
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Now there is light pouring through the cracks and there may be no lawsuit at all.
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NEW: Walker’s lawyer tells me “We are currently considering our options but no final decision has been made on the future handling of this matter.” https://t.co/Pq482nRRAC
— Elizabeth Campbell (@ECampbell360) October 4, 2022
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