ICYMI: Walker’s past could let Warnock keep Senate seat, rivals say [AP]

New reporting from the Associated Press is highlighting new details about Herschel Walker’s turbulent past – spurring on escalating attacks from his GOP primary opponents who have called on him to “answer the many questions that everyone has” and charged that “Herschel cannot win this seat.”

Read more on GOP infighting in Georgia from the Associated Press here:

Associated Press: Walker’s past could let Warnock keep Senate seat, rivals say
By Jeff Amy

February 11, 2022

• Republicans risk losing the U.S. Senate race if they nominate Herschel Walker, two of Walker’s rivals said, citing a report by The Associated Press about how police confiscated a gun from the former football great following a domestic dispute 20 years ago.

• “I’m here today because more shocking pieces of Herschel Walker’s past have been discovered,” Senate candidate and state Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black told reporters Friday in Atlanta. “And I’m deeply concerned that we’re about to forfeit control of the United States Senate again, under our watch, when it could be easily avoided.”

• Black repeated an earlier statement that Walker’s past should disqualify him from the Senate.

• Another rival, Navy veteran and former banker Latham Saddler said Thursday that Republicans need to nominate someone with “a clean record” and can’t risk the “drip, drip, drip of stories” about Walker.

• “Herschel cannot win this seat…” Saddler said in a statement.

• The AP reported Thursday that police in Irving, Texas, confiscated a gun from Walker in 2001 following a domestic disturbance because the former football legend talked about having “a shoot-out with police.” Walker’s ex-wife, Cindy Grossman, alleged that she was a repeated target of abuse.

• “It is time for Herschel Walker to enter through the front door, make himself available to the public and have the press do interviews that test your knowledge and skills and answer the many questions that everyone has,” Black said Friday, saying Walker needs to talk about his policy positions as well as his past.

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