Posted on 07/30/2021 9:26:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Republicans loved seeing Herschel Walker score touchdown after touchdown. They doubt he can carry them to the Senate majority.
Walker is a former NFL star and Donald Trump’s favorite to take on Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in the Georgia Senate race next fall. But as years-old allegations about Walker’s marriage and business dealings weigh on his potential bid, Senate Republicans are raising concerns about his past in a state widely viewed as their best pickup opportunity next year.
“Some of it’s pretty bad, obviously: physical abuse and pulling a gun on his wife, if that’s true,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a former chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee who is close to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “I want to win that race. And to the extent that he’s handicapped by some of these things that would make that unlikely, I’d prefer to have somebody else.”
Walker’s potential candidacy offers another test case for the former president’s influence over the GOP, as Trump tries to play kingmaker in Senate races that will determine whether Republicans can win back the majority. Trump has already backed Rep. Ted Budd in North Carolina and Rep. Mo Brooks in Alabama in open primaries, breaking with the endorsements of the Senate Republicans vacating those seats.
But Walker has hesitated to enter the Georgia race despite Trump’s entreaties, and with good reason. Should Walker proceed to run, he is all but guaranteed to face questions about his personal and financial decisions. While the former football star has been open about his struggles with dissociative identity disorder, recent news reports, including a lengthy AP examination, have resurfaced past allegations from his ex-wife that he threatened to kill her. In addition, his claims about his business success are also coming under scrutiny.
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Wake me up when any of them runs for office. That's fine that they're commentators or podcasters.
Sen. Sherrod ‘wife beater’ Brown (D-OH)
“I am also intimidated by the Defendant and am in fear for the safety and well-being of myself and our children due to the Defendant’s physical violence and abusive nature,” dated May 12, 1986.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/sherrod-browns-war-on-women/ #MeToo
“...which of the Groomed RINOs....”
Unfortunately, you miss the point, entirely. Who says the RINO’s must pick future winners. Not I, ol’ buddie!!!!
Jenner was a Republican, but there's no evidence he was ever conservative.
And if they can't prove the allegations, so what? They'll just make stuff up!
I thought these ***ks were all about compassion for mental illness now.
Those two (and their pals) make me sick to look at OR listen to. D--n them anyway.
Yep.
Cornhole needs the boot, he’s done his assistant DemonCrat act one time too many, sold out fraud.
Run, Walker, Run.
I’m glad we are long past the era where FReepers swooned over Thune as VPOTUS material because he was “handsome and speaks well” . He turned out to be a disappointment shortly after replacing Dasshole.
Pretty-boy Congressmembers, Senators and Governors often end up disappointing us (or worse). Remember Willard the Rat.
Then again, a lot of the dogs do, too (see: Mitch).
BTW, the sophomore House member, Dusty Johnson, from SD (who is presumably biding his time to succeed one of the 2 Senators) is pretty awful, too. He needs to be replaced.
You think Mitt is pretty? ;-D
I don’t think looks and ideology are correlated, at least not in men.
I remember Dusty did something but I don’t recall what.
He’s always presented himself as a pretty boy. Remember all his swooning fangirls way back when ?
Anti-Trumper, voted for Liz the Rat, calling her “Conservative.” His voting record has been subpar, just squishy.
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