NEW: A woman has challenged Herschel Walker to deny her abortion claims "to my face" ahead of the runoff. She also shared new letters and audio recordings documenting their extramarital affair. Me @thedailybeasthttps://t.co/YQ8pmr4r4Z
A woman who last month accused Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker ofpressuring her to abort their child against her willhas challenged the former football star to deny her claims in person ahead of the December runoff election.
The woman, going by “Jane Doe,” issued the challenge in a press conference Tuesday afternoon hosted by her attorney Gloria Allred. Doe said she decided to push for the in-person meeting after Walker called her initial allegations were a “lie” anddismissedher as “some woman I don’t know.”
“Do you have the guts to meet with me in person in public, look me in the eye, and tell me to my face that you don’t know me and that none of what I said is true?” Doe asked Walker on Tuesday.
“I’m looking forward to your response,” she said.
Doe, who in Octoberalleged that Walker had driven her back to the clinicafter she told him she couldn’t go through with the abortion, said his pressure campaign also included “multiple conversations in which he spoke about threats to me and the baby if I went through with the pregnancy.” Those threats, she said, included vague references to his own personal safety as well as threats of committing suicide.
“He kept saying ‘they’ would still find out and that ‘they’ could ‘have his heart’ by threatening me and the baby. He even told me he thought ‘they’ would try to take the child away from me,” she said, referring to Walker’s in-laws.
Doe, visibly overcome with emotion and fighting back tears, read aloud from one journal entry.
“Herschel has about gone off the deep end over this whole thing. He thinks that having the baby will keep him in so deep with [his wife’s] family that he’ll never get out. He talks about how it would be fine for the baby, and I, if he would just ‘disappear.’ But I know what that means,” she said. (Walker, whoclaimsto have played Russian roulette more than half-a-dozen times, washospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoningin 1991, after reportedly falling asleep in his car while it was running in his garage.)
Doe also provided what she says is further evidence of her six-year extramarital affair with Walker, including a journal entry, letters, and two pieces of audio—a recorded phone call in which both said they loved each other, and an answering machine tape where a man Allred identified as Walker says, “Ah you, this is your stud farm calling, you big sex puppy, you.”
Additionally, Allred read from a sworn statement written by a friend of Doe’s, who says that while she knew of the pregnancy at the time, Doe had first claimed she had miscarried before admitting “several years later” that it had been an abortion.
A woman who claims to be the ex-girlfriend ofRepublicanSenate nominee Herschel Walker will give a press conference on Tuesday to reveal new audio recordings after he denied to allegations that he accompanied her to have anabortion.
The woman, who goes byJane Doe, will hold a press conference with her attorneyGloria Allred. Ms Doe claimed that she had a multi-year relationship with Mr Walker while he was married to his first wife and that when she got pregnant, he pressured her into having an abortion.
Mr Walker is engaged in a runoff race against SenatorRaphael Warnockin Georgia for the final election to determine the makeup of the Senate. Mr Walker has previously said that heopposes abortion in every case, including rape, incest and the life of the mother.
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U.S. RepublicanSenatecandidateHerschel Walkerhas been met with an angry response online after he accused Democratic SenatorRaphael Warnockof being responsible for abuse at a youth camp.
The video of Walker's remarks shared toTwitterhas now been viewed more than 400,000 times, with some social media users strongly criticizing the Republican and suggesting his comments were defamatory.
The footage was shared on Monday byTwitter account PatriotTakes, which describes itself as "researchers monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism". It also said Walker's comments as "a potential defamation lawsuit."
Walker was discussing Warnock and told his audience: "You all know what he did at that camp as well. You all may not have heard this."
"This young man said that was sexual abuse and that was physical abuse and I'm like, who did that? It had to be Senator Raphael Warnock because he was responsible for it. You all didn't hear about that, did you?" Walker said.
"He doesn't want to talk about those things because he doesn't want you to know that," Walker went on.
The Republican appears to have been referring to allegations made by a former camper at a summer camp run by Warnock, reported byThe Washington Free Beaconin December 2020.
Anthony Washington alleged in an interview that when he attended the camp aged 12 in 2002, counselors tossed urine on him and locked him outside a cabin overnight.
Warnock was taken away in handcuffs after reportedly interrupting a police interview with a camp counselor in 2002 and though Warnock was charged at the time, the charges against him were dropped and law enforcement latercalled what happeneda "miscommunication."
At that time, and as reported by theNew York Post, Warnock defended himself by arguing he and the other religious leaders had acted "within the framework of the law", with Warnock claiming he "cooperated fully" with the police investigation.
LGBTQ rights groups on Monday called on RepublicanHerschel Walkerto pull a new campaign ad in Georgia’s Senate runoff that refers to transgender women and girls as “biological males” who should be barred from competing on women’s sports teams.
The release of the ad comes just two days after a deadly shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado claimed the lives of 5 people — including at least two who were transgender — and injured at least 25 others.
“Shame on Herschel Walker — and shame on every politician using LGBTQ lives as political props,” Nadine Bridges, executive director of the nonprofit One Colorado, said Monday in a statement.
Hundreds of bills targeting LGBTQ people, particularly transgender youth, have been introduced in state legislatures across the country this year at the same time that inflammatory rhetoric used to describe LGBTQ people has been embraced by conservative leaders. LGBTQ advocates have blamed these attacks against the community for contributing to the shooting Sunday at Club Q in Colorado Springs.
The suspect in Sunday’s shooting, which occurred on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, has been charged with murder and hate crimes.
In an unearthed clip, Herschel Walker, who currently downplays racism on the campaign trail, said, “racism” is “the hardest thing I think I had to overcome in life.”pic.twitter.com/yLhIXt2egp
A video of Herschel Walker describing racism as "the hardest thing...I had to overcome in life" has resurfaced ahead of next month'sSenaterunoff election in Georgia.
Ahead of this month's midterm elections, Walker played down charges of systematic racism in America as part of his attacks on "woke" culture, at one point saying, "You're not a racist unless you're 185 years old in today's world."
However, he had a very different view as a younger man, according to the video posted onTwitterby Patriot Takes, an account with 448,000 followers that is dedicated to "exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy."
In the clip, Walker is asked, "What's the biggest challenge you've had to overcome?"
He replied, "The hardest thing I think I had to overcome in life—I think racism."
He went on: "I think that's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not the point that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it. So, like, that's a subject we can't touch, let's get away from it. But you know it's there, and as long as it's there you've got to cope with it."
A new poll focusing on the Dec. 6 runoff between U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker shows a close race with challenges for both rivals as they rush to rebuild their coalitions.
The poll, commissioned by the AARP, pegged Warnock at 51% and Walker at 47% — within the margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
Conducted by the bipartisan team of Fabrizio Ward & Impact Research, it’s the first major public poll since the Nov. 8 election ended with neither rival securing the majority vote needed for an outright victory.
“Let’s state the obvious: No one knows who is going to come out to vote on Dec. 6,” said John Anzalone, who is perhaps best known as President Joe Biden’s pollster. “But we also learned something about the motivation levels that’s driving people to the polls.”
Warnock leads voters between the ages of 18 and 49 by a 24-point margin. But Walker has a 9-point edge among voters older than 50. The poll indicates that 90% of those older voters are “extremely motivated.” About three-quarters of voters younger than 50 say they share that intensity.
“If Warnock wins this race, it’s because younger voters actually turn out,” said Bob Ward, another pollster. “The age gaps here are staggering. Even though younger voters are a smaller share of the electorate, they’re keeping Warnock afloat.”
Each of the candidates is winning his own party’s voters, an important sign for Walker, who was hobbled in the midtermby split-ticket voterswho backed Gov. Brian Kemp but withheld their support for him.
But the poll showed Warnock has a commanding lead of 54% to 39% over Walker among independent voters — an important bloc that once reliably voted for Republicans in Georgia.
“Independents are going to be about 30% of the electorate. That doesn’t mean all of them are up in the air,” Ward said. “But there’s a big group of voters who are middle-of-the-road, and many are going to show up in a lower-turnout election.”
The poll alsoindicated the gender gapthat helped shape the last phase of the race hasn’t subsided. Warnock leads Walker among women by 11 points, while Walker has a 5-point advantage among men.
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s campaign is pumping more than $1 million into an unconventional strategy to mobilize hard-to-reach Georgia voters before the Dec. 6 runoff against Republican Herschel Walker.
The Democrat’s “out of home” advertising campaign includes more than 100 billboards at high-traffic areas, a fleet of mobile signs deployed across the state and planes that tow messages above metro Atlanta that encourage Georgians to vote.
The campaign will also deploy posters at 28 college campuses, along with ads at transit stops, to encourage students to vote.
From Nov. 9 through Monday, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and aligned outside groups have spent a combined $16.9 million on ads, according to the ad tracking firm AdImpact, with Warnock's campaign alone spending $8 million. Warnock's most recent TV ad focuses on his background and character.
By comparison, Republican former football player Herschel Walker and his allies have spent a combined $5.4 million on ads, with Walker's campaign spending $2.6 million.
Walker's latest ad, which launched Monday, focuses on transgender athletes in college sports.
The spending disparity is also driven by an early investment from Senate Majority PAC, the main Democratic super PAC involved in Senate races. The super PAC is behind an outside group known as Georgia Honor, which has spent $7.5 million on ads. Its GOP counterpart, Senate Leadership Fund, has spent $2 million.
But Senate Leadership Fund has reserved $8.2 million in airtime ahead of the Dec. 6 runoff, fueling a GOP spending advantage in future reservations. The group has pledged to spend $14.2 million on the race.
Georgians will be able to cast early in-person ballots on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, an appeals court ruled, marking a small win for SenRaphael Warnock’s campaign in the lead up to the state’sSenaterun-off election.
The Democratic senator is facing off againstRepublicanchallengerHerschel Walkeron 6 December after neither candidate managed to secure a majority during the 8 Novembermidterms.
Monday’s appeals court ruling left in place a lower court’s order allowing the early in-person voting to take place on 26 November, which would be the only Saturday when it would have been possible for Georgians to cast an early vote in the tight race.
In the appeal, state election officials, led by Republican Secretary of StateBrad Raffenspergerhad argued that voting on 26 November would not be permitted because it violated aGeorgialaw that prohibits voting on Saturday if there is a state holiday on the Thursday or Friday before.
Democrats and Mr Warnock’s campaign had filed suit challenging Mr Raffensperger’s determination, and on Friday afternoon, a Fulton County judge ruled in their favour by stating that the Georgia Secretary of State cannot prohibit counties from voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
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