{"id":1490667,"date":"2022-05-24T20:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T00:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490667"},"modified":"2022-05-24T20:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T00:15:32","slug":"herschel-walker-wins-georgia-senate-gop-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/herschel-walker-wins-georgia-senate-gop-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Herschel Walker Wins Georgia Senate GOP Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fherschel-walker-wins-georgia-senate-gop-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490667&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Retired NFL star Herschel Walker won the Republican primary for Georgia\u2019s 2022 Senate race Tuesday, according to multiple election forecasters.<\/p>\n<p>Walker was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/donald-trump-herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-kelly-loeffler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drafted<\/a> into the race by former President Donald Trump, eventually garnering the support of establishment figures like Republican Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/27\/mitch-mcconnell-endorses-herschel-walker-georgia-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> of Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>He was long considered to be the frontrunner in the race, posting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/ga\/2022-georgia-republican-senate-primary-7384.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">massive polling leads<\/a> throughout the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/27\/exclusive-herschel-walker-georgia-elections-china-radical-democratic-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walker<\/a> will face freshman incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, who won his seat in a 2020 special election, in November. Warnock is one of the first two Democratic senators to represent the state of Georgia in the Senate since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia is considered to be a key battleground state in the midterms after President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/27\/joe-biden-georgia-poll-herschel-walker-brian-kemp-david-perdue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">narrow victory<\/a> in the 2020 presidential election. Its Senate race is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/ratings\/senate-race-ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rated<\/a> as a \u201ctoss-up\u201d by the Cook Political Report.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7436010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7436010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heisman Trophy winner and Republican candidate for US Senate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally on May 23, 2022 in Athens, Georgia. (Photo by Megan Varner\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>David Perdue, another Trump-endorsed candidate who lost to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in 2020, fared far worse in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/Georgia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polling<\/a> as he struggled to mount a challenge against incumbent Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.<\/p>\n<p>Lakshya Jain, an election analyst who writes for Split Ticket, told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Warnock is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/04\/raphael-warnock-stacey-abrams-herschel-walker-brian-kemp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more likely to win<\/a> in November than fellow Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is running for governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbrams under-runs Warnock in basically every single one of these suburbs and we see it in every single poll,\u201d Jain told TheDCNF. \u201cIt has to do with the fact that he\u2019s viewed as less extreme by the electorate.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/29\/pivotal-primary-races-2022-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Here Are The 12 Pivotal Primary Races Of 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Associated Press\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lifestyle-sports-nfl-college-football-coronavirus-pandemic-5e2875eec11e93f9a3bf1fc859137ff8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation<\/a> of public records tied to Walker\u2019s businesses and divorce found that he allegedly threatened his ex-wife\u2019s life and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/herschel-walker-georgia-senate-bid-2022-raphael-warnock-jon-ossoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">displayed violent and abusive behavior<\/a> towards her and himself, and that he exaggerated his entrepreneurial success.<\/p>\n<p>Walker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2021\/12\/14\/exclusive-herschel-walker-confronts-his-mental-health-domestic-violence-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> Axios in December that he\u2019s \u201caccountable\u201d for his previous violent behavior as he struggled with mental health, but that he is \u201cbetter now than 99% of the people in America. \u2026 Just like I broke my leg; I put the cast on. It healed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired NFL star Herschel Walker won the Republican primary for Georgia\u2019s 2022 Senate race Tuesday, according to multiple election forecasters.Walker was drafted into the race by former President Donald Trump,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":1490679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}