Walker promised in the hours after the initial report to sue the news outlet, but has not followed up with an announcement that he has done so.
WADLEY, Ga. — Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker remained defiant Thursday after successive reports alleging that he encouraged and paid for a woman’s Digging in on his denials of The Daily Beast’s reporting, Walker, a football icon turned celebrity politician and staunch abortion foe, and their “desperation” — a defensive tactic that Walker’s friend and ally, former President Donald Trump, used to weather myriad controversies on his way to the White House.
Walker’s tempest hasn’t shaken support among Republicans in Washington, where Senate control supersedes nearly all concerns in a competitive race. But the latest turns have rattled some party faithful in Georgia, especially after The Daily Beast’s follow-up report undercut Walker’s blanket denials. In Walker, conservatives face another political novice who characterizes abortion as a woman “killing her baby,” only to have allegations that he paid to end a pregnancy he helped conceive. Just months ago, also after a Daily Beast story, Walker acknowledged the existence of three children he’d not discussed publicly before, one now indirectly identified as the child of the woman who said she had the abortion.
The Daily Beast responded with the second report in which the woman said she was so well known to Walker that, according to her, they conceived another child years after the abortion. She decided to continue with the later pregnancy, though she noted that Walker, as he had during the earlier pregnancy, expressed that it wasn’t a convenient time for him, the outlet reported.
Asked about Christian on Thursday, he said simply: “I love my son so much. He’s a great little man. I love him to death. I will always love him no matter what.” Walker began airing an ad this week, titled “Grace,” in which he mentions his struggles with mental illness, which he wrote about in a 2008 memoir that details violent threats he made against his first wife. The ad doesn’t allude to the abortion allegations, but he did address them in a fundraising appeal sent to supporters late Thursday.
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