{"id":1683149,"date":"2022-10-11T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683149"},"modified":"2022-10-11T09:08:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:08:28","slug":"herschel-walker-unfazed-by-media-attacks-trying-to-muddy-up-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/herschel-walker-unfazed-by-media-attacks-trying-to-muddy-up-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Herschel Walker Unfazed by Media Attacks \u201cTrying to Muddy up the Water\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-unfazed-by-media-attacks-trying-to-muddy-up-the-water%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=1683149&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 class=\"subheading\">ATHENS, Georgia \u2014 Herschel Walker is new to the political \u201cOctober surprise,\u201d but like past challenges he has faced, he is charging forward in his Senate race undaunted by recent media attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Walker spoke with Breitbart News in a wide-ranging interview Saturday, just after a week-long fusillade of reports were published about his personal life and right before his alma mater was set to play a rivalry home game about two hours up the road from his home in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI never heard of whatever they call \u2018October surprises,\u2019 but whatever they\u2019re doing now, as I always say, I move forward,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, a former University of Georgia football star and NFL player, was hit with a string of negative press that began last Monday with a Daily Beast story about a woman claiming Walker paid for her abortion in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Walker, who is adamantly pro-life, called the claim a \u201cflat-out lie,\u201d but the story nevertheless set off a firestorm. His 23-year-old son went on an online tirade denouncing his candidacy, and the abortion accuser, who is also the mother of another one of Walker\u2019s sons,\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/08\/text-messages-show-woman-now-accusing-walker-paying-abortion-changed-her-tune-was-supportive-campaign-earlier-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave<\/a>\u00a0more ammo in the form of text messages and other documentation to left-wing outlets that would serve to drag Walker down about his past.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cContinuing to talk about something of yesterday or trying to bring up something of yesterday \u2026 I think it can make things very difficult. I think they\u2019re trying to muddy up the water somewhat, so I think the water is trying to get muddied up some,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<p>Walker\u2019s football fanbase appears unwavering, regardless of where he stands politically. Although he left the game 25 years ago, the Heisman Trophy winner seems to generate widespread enthusiasm among football fans in Georgia, where Bulldogs reign supreme and the sport is frequently described as \u201creligion.\u201d And although Walker left the school just shy of graduating, he later endowed a scholarship there that remains active today and goes toward one football player annually, a school official confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>In Athens, many students and alumni wearing jerseys with the number 34, Walker\u2019s retired number, peppered the densely packed college town ahead of the school\u2019s game against Auburn.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22304353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/10\/AP071002019520.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Georgia running back Herschel Walker, #34, is seen in action, 1982. (AP Photo)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chance, a University of Georgia senior, was one of them. Asked if he planned to vote for Walker, Chance replied, \u201cI already did.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s Herschel Walker. He supports a lot of what I like,\u201d Chance reasoned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Nick, 18, said, \u201cI do a lot of reading, and, yeah, he\u2019s clearly got some problems, but as long as he knows what to vote yes or no on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker has long been a mental health advocate and openly speaks about his struggle to overcome his dissociative identity disorder\u00a0diagnosis, which occurred in the aftermath of his football career.<\/p>\n<p>Another young man in Athens wearing a 34 jersey, who said he was a registered Democrat from Atlanta, said he liked Walker as an athlete \u201cbut not as a politician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Walker said he is confident the latest slate of news about him would not deter his supporters, who he believes have lost trust in the media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really read a lot of the articles, but when I\u2019m talking to people that\u2019s out in Georgia, they never talk about what they\u2019ve been reading in the paper because I think right now everyone\u2019s been so \u2014 I don\u2019t want to put anyone down in the media \u2014 but they\u2019ve been so down on the media because they\u2019re not sure they can trust what is real and what\u2019s not real,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Polls show Walker is currently in a dead heat against incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in one of the country\u2019s top midterm races. Walker contended that \u201cthe left is sort of scared\u201d at the prospect of Warnock\u2019s seat flipping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, the left is sort of scared because the people are going to vote for me because they know I care,\u201d Walker said. \u201cSo they\u2019re trying to do everything they can to turn the people against me, but I think the people know who I am. I do what I say, and I say what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having experienced a humble upbringing in Wrightsville, where roughly 2,100 people live, and having a resume that is far from that of the typical politician, Walker noted he is \u201cconfused at some of the stuff that\u2019s out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m not just joking about it,\u201d Walker said. \u201cI\u2019m totally confused because no one\u2019s gonna really write the true story and want to hear what the true story is. So that\u2019s the reason I\u2019m saying I\u2019m moving forward, because I\u2019m representing the people of Georgia, and the Georgia voters are looking for someone that\u2019s gonna go to Washington and do the right thing by them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Write to Ashley Oliver at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:aoliver@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">aoliver@breitbart.com<\/a>. Follow her on Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/asholiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@asholiver<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Georgia \u2014 Herschel Walker is new to the political \u201cOctober surprise,\u201d but like past challenges he has faced, he is charging forward in his Senate race undaunted by recent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1683151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683149","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\/1683149","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1683151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}