{"id":680670,"date":"2021-08-24T17:20:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=680670"},"modified":"2021-08-24T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:20:45","slug":"ex-nfl-star-herschel-walker-enters-georgia-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-nfl-star-herschel-walker-enters-georgia-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NFL Star Herschel Walker Enters Georgia Senate Race"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fex-nfl-star-herschel-walker-enters-georgia-senate-race%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=680670&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>Former football star Herschel Walker launched a Senate bid in Georgia Tuesday, becoming the latest candidate to vie for one of the highest-stakes races in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, who has never held public office, is the highest-profile Republican to challenge Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock thus far. He <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/S2GA00225\/1536263\">filed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00787853\/1536261\">with<\/a> the Federal Elections Commission Tuesday, and is set to deliver a formal announcement in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The bid was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/politics-blog\/breaking-herschel-walker-is-running-for-us-senate-in-georgia\/6GZ3BDZBHJHRFFJA76PT2K2XLA\/\">reported<\/a> by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Walker was widely speculated to enter the race, and just last week changed his voter registration from Texas to Georgia, where he was a star running back from 1980-1982. He entered the race after <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/donald-trump-herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-kelly-loeffler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public pressure<\/a> to do so from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/10\/donald-trump-herschel-walker-senate-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">former President Donald Trump<\/a>, who released statements saying \u201crun, Herschel, run!\u201d and predicting that he would be just as \u201cunstoppable\u201d as a candidate as he was during his football career.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/06\/raphael-warnock-wins-georgia-senate-runoff-race-defeats-kelly-loeffler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Warnock Wins Georgia Senate Runoff)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7226526\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7226526\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7226526 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1228710277-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Former President Donald Trump greets Herschel Walker at a Georgia campaign event last September. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1228710277-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1228710277-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1228710277-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1228710277-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1228710277-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1228710277-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7226526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Donald Trump greets Herschel Walker at a Georgia campaign event last September. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Walker candidacy, however, has worried some Republicans who see him as a liability that could jeopardize GOP efforts to take back the seat. An Associated Press <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 displayed violent and abusive behavior towards her and himself, and that he exaggerated his entrepreneurial success.<\/p>\n<p>Walker is also not the only Republican vying to unseat Warnock, and Republicans running are not expected to cede the nomination to him. Gary Black, Georgia\u2019s agriculture secretary, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DftgZqhj72s\">attacked Walker as a carpetbagger<\/a> who was only moving back to the state to run.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia\u2019s Senate race is expected to be one of the most competitive in the country come 2022. President Joe Biden won the state last November by fewer than 12,000 votes, and Warnock and Sen. Jon Ossoff won dual runoff races in January, giving Democrats both chambers of Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade.<\/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>Former football star Herschel Walker launched a Senate bid in Georgia Tuesday, becoming the latest candidate to vie for one of the highest-stakes races in the country.Walker, who has never &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680670","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\/680670","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=680670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}