Herschel Walker’s GOP rivals are running out of time to tackle him
STATESBORO, Georgia—When Georgia Senate candidate Gary Black stopped for an event at the Bulloch County GOP office on Wednesday, he convinced 100 percent of the voters there to drop their support for Herschel Walker and back him instead.
Walker’s GOP rivals are betting that voters won’t really like Herschel Walker all that much once they actually get to know him—past the version they saw in the early 1980s leading the University of Georgia’s backfield.
Warnock, fresh off his 2020 win, is raising historic sums of money and is already using it to bolster his brand by bankrolling TV ads across the state. But facing a brutal 2022 midterm environment nationally, Democrats need any break they can get in Georgia, a sharply divided state that has hosted some of the country’s most intense campaigns in recent years.
Black said he is a “big fan” of Walker from his University of Georgia days. “But this is not a game,” Black said in an interview. “The future of the country, conservative control of the U.S. Senate, is not a joke. But they're treating it as a joke.” “I'm not focusing on his past,” Saddler said of Walker. “I'm focusing on what he's doing and not doing now.”“I'm not focused so much on Mr. Walker's past, but I am focused on his present and the future of Georgia,” he said in an interview after a campaign forum in Statesboro on Wednesday night.
While his rivals have criss-crossed the state doing events—King says he has done 300—Walker has been a scarce presence on the campaign trail, preferring Fox News hits over interviews with local press and private events over public ones. In an interview during his stop in Statesboro, Black ticked through the top Washington Republicans who have enthusiastically backed Walker, despite his baggage.
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