Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign has confronted a great many controversies in recent months, but last week’s headlines were among the most dramatic to date. One of the women the Georgia Republican impregnated credibly accused him of paying for an abortion, even as he campaigns in support of a total abortion ban without exceptions.
Soon after, Walker’s adult son insisted that the candidate, among other things, “threatened to kill“ members of his family, forcing them to flee his “violence.”
But even as these controversies jolted one of the nation’s most important midterm races, the GOP Senate hopeful continued to face more conventional questions about dubious claims regarding his record.
HuffPost reported last week, for example, that Walker has publicly claimed he “supervised six hospitals around the United States.” There doesn’t appear to be any evidence to support the claim.
What’s more, Walker sat down with Rolling Out, a Black media outlet, and discussed that he wasn’t initially thinking about pursuing elected office. “People just talk about me and football,” he said. “But you know I’ve been very fortunate in the business world. I’ve been very fortunate in my military, uh, career, that I was doing a lot of things with the military.”
A CNN report yesterday highlighted the problem:








