* As Herschel Walker’s Republican Senate campaign advances in Georgia, the Associated Press reports today on a 2001 incident in which the former athlete “talked about having a shoot-out with police.” Around the same time, Walker’s therapist called the police to say he was “volatile,” armed, and scaring his estranged wife.
* In related news, The Macon Telegraph reports today that the GOP candidate and a business partner “have failed to repay $625,000 in loans used to fund a pizza franchise, court records reviewed by the Ledger-Enquirer and McClatchy News show.”
* Four years ago today, Donald Trump unveiled an apparent infrastructure plan that didn’t go anywhere. Today, the Democratic National Committee unveiled a new ad highlighting the former president’s failures on the issue, and contrasting it with President Joe Biden’s success.
* In Arizona’s Republican Senate primary, Jim Lamon’s campaign apparently thought it’d be a good idea to create an ad in which he portrayed a gun-slinging sheriff who shoots at actors portraying President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly.
* As a presidential candidate a couple of years ago, Beto O’Rourke endorsed taking away assault weapons. As a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Texas this year, the former congressman is now saying largely the opposite. * Though Republican Sen. John Boozman generally isn’t seen as vulnerable this year, he is facing a primary challenge from former football player Jake Bequette, and the Arkansas Patriots Fund super PAC spent more than $841,000 this week to air campaign ads that promote Bequette and attack the incumbent. * And Lynne Torgerson, a Republican running for attorney general in Minnesota, was filmed bragging about her staffers participating in Jan. 6, and appeared to refer to the rioters as “heroes.”
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
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