Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker has proven himself to be absolutely clueless on most issues. But this time he really hasn’t read the room correctly, and likely to his own detriment.
Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a national bill that would ban “late-term abortions” after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The proposal comes at a weird time given that Republicans are choosing not to focus on the issue of abortion coming into the midterms. The measure was soundly rejected—even by the likes of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell—but supported by Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Steve Daines, neither of whom had any apparent issue supporting the measure that will most certainly fail in both the House and the Senate.
It seems Walker missed that missive, and in a statement Wednesday, the Heisman Trophy-winning former football player proclaimed himself to be “a proud pro-life Christian” who “will always stand up for our unborn children.” Adding, “I believe the issue should be decided at the state level, but I WOULD support this policy.”
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Walker is running against the Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock, who has been clear in his support of reproductive rights and abortion.
Meredith Brasher, Warnock’s communications director, told The Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC): “Georgia voters will have a clear choice this fall between Rev. Warnock’s record of fighting to protect a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions and Herschel Walker, who wants to outlaw abortion, even in cases of rape, incest, or where the life of the mother is at risk, and who would support a national abortion ban in the Senate.”
According to polling in July by the AJC, Georgians oppose the state’s six-week “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban, with 42% of those polled saying they’d more likely vote for a candidate who promises to protect a person’s right to an abortion.
In addition to Walker’s rigid, extreme, and out-of-touch rhetoric on abortion, the Trump-endorsed candidate also can’t keep his story straight on several other issues.
Walker has lied about everything from graduating from the University of Georgia, the AJC reported, to hiding the fact that he had any children other than his 22-year-old son Christian, to the mammoth exaggerations about his business acumen, to the tall tale about the time he founded (or co-founded) the veteran's organization Patriot Support—which he did not. He even recently tried to deny that the former president ever said that the 2020 election was stolen.
It’s no wonder Walker has continued to waffle on debates against Warnock.
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