{"id":682084,"date":"2021-08-25T04:50:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=682084"},"modified":"2021-08-25T08:52:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:52:25","slug":"former-nfl-player-herschel-walker-runs-for-us-senate-seat-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nfl-player-herschel-walker-runs-for-us-senate-seat-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL Player Herschel Walker Runs for US Senate Seat in Georgia"},"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%2Fformer-nfl-player-herschel-walker-runs-for-us-senate-seat-in-georgia%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=682084&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-herschel-walker\">Herschel Walker<\/a>, the former football star who has the backing of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, launched a campaign Tuesday for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia. Walker will be the most well-known Republican running against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) in next year\u2019s contest.<\/p>\n<p>Walker filed paperwork Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission establishing his candidacy and recently\u00a0registered\u00a0to vote in Georgia, but he is yet to make a formal announcement or get his campaign website up and running.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has publicly encouraged Walker to run for the Senate and predicted that he would enter politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told me he\u2019s going to, and I think he will,\u201d Trump\u00a0said during a June interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clayandbuck.com\/videos\/audio-clips\/president-trump-joins-clay-and-buck\/\">\u201cClay Travis &amp; Buck Sexton Show\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had dinner with him a week ago. He\u2019s a great guy. He\u2019s a patriot. He\u2019s a very loyal person,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Walker returned the admiration to Trump when he spoke about his three-decade-long friendship with the former president during the 2020 Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hurt my soul to hear the terrible names that people called Donald. The worst one is racist. Growing up in the Deep South, I\u2019ve seen racism up close. I know what it is, and it isn\u2019t Donald Trump. Just because someone loves and respects to fly our national anthem in our country, doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t care about social justice,\u201d said Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Walker praised Trump\u2019s efforts to improve the economic situation for black Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia\u2019s Senate race is expected to be among the most competitive of the 2022 midterm cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff\u00a0narrowly won a pair of runoff elections in January against their Republican counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>But Georgia has been right-leaning and Republicans are eager to take back at least one of the state\u2019s two Senate seats.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden took Georgia by a fraction of 1 percent in the 2020 presidential election, and in the previous five elections Georgians have voted for Republican presidents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Masooma Haq<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herschel Walker, the former football star who has the backing of former President Donald Trump, launched a campaign Tuesday for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia. 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