Herschel Walker

Former Heisman Trophy-winning running back Herschel Walker lost to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in a crucial Georgia runoff election Tuesday.

He has never denied those specifics and wrote of his violent tendencies in a 2008 memoir that attributed the behavior to mental illness. He was also forced to acknowledge during the campaign that he had fathered three children out of wedlock whom he had never before spoken about publicly. He led them to an undefeated record and national championship in 1980, and in 1982, he won the Heisman as the nation's top player.

The Democratic Senator and pastor beat out the Trump-backed former football star, allowing Democrats to add to their slim majority in the Senate.

He has also [admitted](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/herschel-walker-domestic-violence-therapy-b1975964.html) to a history of domestic violence, appears to have attempted to keep several of his children a secret from the public ( [and even his own campaign](https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-lied-about-his-secret-kids-to-his-own-campaign)), and, while campaigning in Georgia, claimed a [tax credit in Texas for people who primarily live there](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/herschel-walker-tax-benefits-texas). Warnock’s ad spend represented just a fraction of his total war chest, which [topped](https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/runoff-watch-warnock-doubles-walkers-fundraising-haul-rcna58925) $50 million between October 20 to November 16, as compared to Walker’s $20.9 million over that same period. [slight edge](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/politics/cnn-poll-georgia-senate-runoff-election/index.html) in the numbers. His own campaign staff anonymously told the Daily Beast [that Walker is a “pathological liar](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/07/herschel-walker-secret-children-pathological-liar-georgia-senate).” He's [lied](https://www.newsweek.com/herschel-walker-fbi-agent-police-false-claim-lie-1715498) about multiple parts of his resume, including his education record, falsely claiming to have been an FBI agent and a police officer, and owning [businesses that don’t exist](https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-claims-to-own-companies-that-dont-exist). Leading up to the rematch, the Washington Post reported that Georgia saw a record-breaking wave of [early voting](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/26/georgia-senate-runoff-saturday-voting/). [outlandish rhetoric](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/herschel-walkeer-vampires-werewolves). Over 1.85 million residents had [voted](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/georgia-senate-runoff-smashes-early-voting-records-attracts-new-voters-rcna59981) early as of Monday. Walker's loss is the bitter culmination of a campaign that has been dogged by scandal—most notably allegations from was a member, Warnock was first elected in a 2021 runoff to serve out the remainder of Johnny Isakson's term, making Tuesday his fourth Senate election in just two years. Still, Warnock's victory is a sign that Democrats have made tremendous electoral gains in Georgia, a state that voted for Biden two years ago but reelected its Republican governor, Brian Kemp, in November. Democrats had already secured control of the Senate leading into Tuesday's runoff, but Warnock’s win gives them a slightly stronger edge as the party will be forced to reckon with a Republican House majority. Still, Warnock proved to have a

Win or lose, all the criticisms of Herschel Walker obscure a larger point: The Republicans have acclimated the American public to ghastly behavior from ...

[posted a thread](https://twitter.com/TSting18/status/1589221942124744705) of 50 great films from the 1980s. (Years later, in [Joker](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/robert-de-niro-connection-between-joker-and-the-king-of-comedy/), De Niro would himself play a TV host who is stalked by a fame seeker, but The King of Comedy doesn’t need Joker’s gore to make us cringe.) Then try [Outland](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/), which is basically High Noon set in space. [The King of Comedy](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085794/), in which Robert De Niro plays a fame-obsessed nerd whose only goal is to be on a talk show. And I was particularly glad to see the inclusion of [Streets of Fire](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088194/), a sort of live-action graphic novel from the director of The Warriors that billed itself as “a rock & roll fable” about a hero saving his girl from a gang of bikers. When investigators finally found the corpse of the 175-pound male, nicknamed Pablo Eskobear, all that was left were “bones and a big hide” and three to four grams of cocaine in his bloodstream—an unseemly end for an otherwise honorable creature that was merely trawling his neighborhood for a snack (as bears do!). [crazy, unelectable candidates](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/to-defeat-trump-stop-calling-him-a-loser/2022/11/26/712e5c96-6d93-11ed-8619-0b92f0565592_story.html).” Perhaps from there, the GOP can start fusing electability back to character, but that process will take a while. [Play our daily crossword.](https://www.theatlantic.com/free-daily-crossword-puzzle/) The only thing worse than making a mistake is admitting it was a mistake, and facing the humiliation of being a sucker. And, as my friend [Jill Lawrence](https://www.thebulwark.com/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-gop/) pointed out today, supporting an [allegedly abusive](https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/feature/senate-runoff-nears-herschel-walkers-ex-girlfriend-details-abuse-rcna60050) rake like Walker makes a mockery of Republicans who once extolled virtue and character as the most important qualities in a public servant. Are you really going to let the commies and immigrants from the [“shithole countries”](https://apnews.com/article/immigration-north-america-donald-trump-ap-top-news-international-news-fdda2ff0b877416c8ae1c1a77a3cc425) take over? Trump ran, and still runs, as something of a dare, a challenge to see if we’re just a bunch of delicate scolds who get the vapors over things like Win or lose, all the criticisms of Herschel Walker obscure a larger point: The Republicans have acclimated the American public to ghastly behavior from elected officials and candidates for high office.

Herschel Walker could be basking in his former athletic glory, but he came into the orbit of that serial destroyer of other people's reputations, ...

Did uncontested races cost the Democrats the House popular vote?December 5, 2022 Did uncontested races cost the Democrats the House popular vote?December 5, 2022Opinion Republicans, you can do better than Herschel Walker.

May 24, 2022: Walker wins the Republican primary by more than 50 points, earning the right to run against Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock in fall. May 26, ...

(This does not in and of itself disqualify him from serving.) Democrats net a seat in the Senate. 6, 2022: Walker loses the run-off to Warnock. (He denies it, but the evidence that he did so is substantial.) Oz” Oz loses an open seat in Pennsylvania to Democrat John Fetterman. (He denies it.) 8, 2022: On election night, Walker and Warnock advance to a runoff when neither receives 50 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, another Trump-endorsed GOP Senate candidate about whom Mitch McConnell had concerns, Blake Masters, runs behind other Republicans in Arizona and loses his race against Sen. Trump-endorsed Pennsylvania candidate Mehmet “Dr. Warnock comes closer, winning 49.4 of ballots cast to Walker’s 48.5. (According to Morning Consult, Joe Biden’s approval rating in Georgia in the months before voting was roughly On the other hand, the good news is, he’s made several impressive performances on national television.”

Walker's ignorance is part of the point for Republicans. “Herschel Walker was not nominated to govern,” George Chidi wrote for Rolling Stone last month. “He was ...

[turned on his father](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/christian-walker-unloads-herschel-walker-abortion-payment-report-1234604806/) after it was revealed that he paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion. He admitted to having [more secret children](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/herschel-walker-admits-another-son-1369257/) a few weeks later. [has a secret son he doesn’t see](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/herschel-walker-secret-son-report-1368573/). The Daily Beast reported a few weeks after that that [he’d been lying to his campaign](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/herschel-walker-secret-children-1379098/) about his offspring. She told The Daily Beast that Walker “cannot” be a senator. The Daily Beast reported last month that Walker also [lied about owning the nation’s largest upholstery business](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/herschel-walker-business-record-1336941/). CNN points to stories from the time about Walker saying he maintained a B average at UGA, and that he had a 3.0 GPA before his grades began to suffer. The woman [had a child with Walker](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/herschel-walker-abortion-payment-mother-of-his-child-1234606268/), as well. [pressured her into getting another abortion](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/herschel-walker-asked-ex-to-have-second-abortion-1234607559/) in 2011. The company listed just eight employees when it applied for a Covid loan in 2020, and Walker admitted in a court case that the company brings in less than $2 million a year. “Do you know right now, I have something that [you can bring] into a building, that will clean you of Covid, as you walk through this dry mist?” he told Glenn Beck in the summer of 2020. He seemed perplexed about the theory of evolution during an appearance at a church in March.

Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff elect...

He sometimes made the attack in especially personal terms, accusing Warnock of “being on his knees, begging” at the White House — a searing charge for a Black challenger to level against a Black senator about his relationship with a white president. But he said he cast his ballot for Warnock because he didn’t think “Herschel Walker has the credentials to be a senator". He has never denied those specifics and wrote of his violent tendencies in a 2008 memoir that attributed the behaviour to mental illness. As a candidate, he sometimes mangled policy discussions, attributing the climate crisis to China’s “bad air” overtaking “good air” from the United States and arguing that diabetics could manage their health by "eating right", a practice that isn’t enough for insulin-dependent diabetic patients. Voting rights groups point to changes made by state lawmakers after the 2020 election that shortened the period for runoffs, from nine weeks to four, as a major reason for the decline in early and mail voting. About 1.9 million runoff votes were cast by mail and during early voting, while the state was on track for a robust Election Day, with state officials estimating an additional 1.4 million votes cast — slightly more than in the November midterm and the 2020 election. The mother of one of those children told The Daily Beast that Walker had not seen his young son since January 2016 and had to be taken to court for child support — in direct conflict with Walker’s years spent criticising absentee fathers and his calls for Black men, in particular, to play an active role in their kids’ lives. “I’ll work with anyone to get things done for the people of Georgia,” Warnock, the state’s first Black senator, said throughout his campaign, a nod to the state’s historically conservative lean and his need to win over GOP-leaning independents and at least some moderate Republicans in a midterm election year. Democrats’ new outright majority in the Senate means the party will no longer have to negotiate a power-sharing deal with Republicans and won’t have to rely on Vice President Kamala Harris to break as many tied votes. Walker, a football legend who first gained fame at the University of Georgia and later in the NFL in the 1980s, was unable to overcome a bevy of damaging allegations, including Voters returned Warnock to the Senate in the same cycle they reelected Republican Governor Brian Kemp by a comfortable margin and chose an all-GOP slate of statewide constitutional officers. [US](https://www.9news.com.au/usa)Senate for the rest of [President Joe Biden’s](https://www.9news.com.au/joe-biden)term and helping cap an [underwhelming midterm cycle for the GOP in the last major vote of the year](https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-midterm-election-results-presidential-campaign-run-ron-desantis-florida-usa-news/11d046ed-b10c-47b1-8d92-c637fba29a73).

Republican Herschel Walker conceded defeat in his Georgia runoff for a Senate seat against Raphael Warnock on Tuesday. Walker said: 'There's no excuses in ...

Republican Herschel Walker conceded defeat in his Georgia runoff for a Senate seat against Raphael Warnock on Tuesday. Walker said: 'There's no excuses in life. You talk about Heisman Trophy, talk about all the athletic award, business awards I've won.