Posted on 10/09/2022 3:18:05 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Amid a week of smears in a contentious Senate race in the purple state of Georgia, GOP Sen.-nominee Herschel Walker is getting a $750,000 boost from former President Donald Trump, Politico reported.
Trump has long endorsed his friend for the Senate, but this is the first true investment in the race from his new MAGA Inc. PAC, according to Politico.
The funds went to a new ad, attacking Democrats and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., for helping America lose its way, albeit without mentioning Walker.
"From D-Day to drag queen story time, America has lost its way," the ad begins. "Radical Democrats are indoctrinating our children to hate America — opening our borders and crushing working people with taxes."
The 30-second ad reminds Georgia voters that Warnock "votes with Biden 96% of the time."
"Chaos at the border, crime in our neighborhoods, a collapsing economy — Biden and Warnock did that," the ad continues, using the phrase on gas-pump stickers that point the finger at Biden for energy policy that has caused the price of gas to skyrocket.
"Take our country back. Defeat Raphael Warnock."
Walker has been attacked this week with reports he allegedly paid for an ex-girlfriend to have an abortion, which flies in the face of his position on abortion restrictions.
"This is just textbook 101 for the Democrats," Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Hugh Hewitt's podcast. "They know they're going to lose. Herschel Walker is running a good race. He's a great candidate."
Scott, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, noted President Joe Biden's struggling economy is unpopular to run on, so they lean on abortion and old political smear campaigns.
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"Raphael Warnock is Joe Biden, and you know, it's just lies, cheat, and smear: That's what the Democrats do," Scott told Hewitt. "They did it to Brett Kavanaugh. They did it to Clarence Thomas. They're doing it to Herschel Walker. But he's going to win, and so we're going to win in Georgia."
Go to the link to see the ad. It's quite effective!
Inflation and defund the police
just keep hitting them with those over and over
How often do you have a pro-choice Republican candidate?
I think Herschel is pretty much toast at this point.
Waste of money. Warnock’s got it locked up.
In the Senate?
I wouldn't write him off quite yet. FiveThirtyEight only has him trailing by 3 points and Warnock is polling under 50%.
Kemp is gonna swamp Abrams in a massive landslide and could pull Walker across the finish line.
But, yeah, it seems like with a better candidate, it would've been an easy win.
In what political universe is someone like Walker considered a competent candidate for office?
Our last US Senator was Lowell Weicker, so yeah.
That was almost 30 years ago, wasn't it?
When the incumbent is ahead by 3 pts the challenger is usually done. Even the black pod casts are saying stuff about Walker like sometimes you have to let dumb be dumb. 😆
Is the Dem a better choice?
This election is for control of the U.S. Senate.
Yup. I ran for State Rep in ‘96, and shared a candidates’ forum with another Republican running for State Senate in Hamden. The abortion question came up, the Irish Catholic Democrat from Wallingford gave a cop out pro-choice answer and seemed uncomfortable with it. The Republican from Hamden said “I agree,” and stopped.
I didn’t get that question, so I had to use my final statement to address abortion since it would be the only pro-life words said that night. I attacked Mary Fritz, my opponent, who had been a pro-life Democrat, a common CT species years ago, and she was furious, and refused to shake my hand after the forum.
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