{"id":965053,"date":"2021-11-03T23:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T03:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=965053"},"modified":"2021-11-03T23:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T03:43:42","slug":"exclusive-herschel-walker-georgia-is-next-because-im-running-im-going-to-go-out-and-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-herschel-walker-georgia-is-next-because-im-running-im-going-to-go-out-and-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u2014 Herschel Walker: \u2018Georgia Is Next Because I\u2019m Running,\u2019 \u2018I\u2019m Going to Go Out and Win\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fexclusive-herschel-walker-georgia-is-next-because-im-running-im-going-to-go-out-and-win%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=965053&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\">Former NFL star running back Herschel Walker, a Republican running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday that \u201cGeorgia is next\u201d after Republican Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin\u2019s shocking victory in Virginia Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorgia is next because I\u2019m running,\u201d Herschel Walker said in a phone interview on Wednesday.<\/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>Walker also said of Youngkin\u2019s win that he thinks it is a sign Americans nationwide \u201care waking up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I was happy to see it. I think that people are waking up. I think people are getting tired of this. Here we go. They see what\u2019s going on,\u201d Walker said. \u201cLet\u2019s look at this economy. One of the things that they heard all during the election last year was this Keystone Pipeline, the Keystone Pipeline, Keystone Pipeline. I remember hearing our president say, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m not gonna cancel it. I\u2019m not going to do anything. I\u2019m not. I\u2019m going to keep the jobs.\u2019 Before he even got into office, he cancelled it. He made us rely on other people for all of our energy. We can be self-sufficient for ourselves and because of that, the prices are going out of the roof. Gas prices, you can\u2019t get stuff on the shelves because you got to deliver. You see the ships out there? People are not working; people don\u2019t have jobs because the government is paying them. So it\u2019s a lot more than just people waking up saying, \u2018wait a minute, something is not right here.\u2019 And I think that\u2019s what\u2019s so great is people are starting to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18595434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/wi\/ap\/03\/election-2021-virginia-governor-virginia-gov-elect-glenn-youngkin-arrives-speak-at-an-election.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18595434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/election-2021-virginia-governor-virginia-gov-elect-glenn-youngkin-arrives-speak-at-an-election-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin arrives to speak at an election night party in Chantilly, VA, early Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, after he defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the wake of Youngkin\u2019s victory and a broader red wave in elections coast to coast where Democrat President Joe Biden and his party were soundly rejected by voters nationwide, the University of Virginia\u2019s Center for Politics\u2019s Larry Sabato Crystal Ball <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforpolitics.org\/crystalball\/articles\/republican-sweep-in-virginia-sets-off-alarm-bells-for-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed <\/a>its ranking of Georgia\u2019s Senate race next year from \u201clean Democrat\u201d to pure \u201ctoss up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker \u2014 who currently holds a commanding lead in the GOP primary after winning endorsements from across the GOP including most notably former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell \u2014 would face off against newly-elected Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in November next year if he wins the nomination. Warnock slipped into the U.S. Senate earlier this year after he defeated now-former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) in the runoff election on Jan. 5, which capped a rough 2020 for Republicans and a banner year for Democrats, who held their House majority despite significant losses and took the U.S. Senate and the White House. Ten months later, though, Democrats have failed to deliver much given slim majorities in both chambers of Congress and an inept White House with an aging Biden at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the UVA ratings change on the Georgia Senate race next year during the interview on Wednesday, Walker told Breitbart News he is in this race to win it because he is concerned about the direction of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, one of the things I always told people is I don\u2019t go by polls or go by anything like that because I think as long as you got breath in your lungs, you can go out and defeat anyone,\u201d Walker said. \u201cWhen I entered this race, I entered it to win it. I didn\u2019t enter the race to look good. I didn\u2019t enter this race because I needed another feather in my cap. I entered this race because I saw something going wrong in this country. I saw people that was saying negative things about America. I saw people talking about this critical race theory. I saw the gas price going out the roof, stuff not on the shelves, and I said, \u2018something is not right.\u2019 I got into this race because I said I wanted people to know the buck is going to stop here. I\u2019m not going to settle for this. I\u2019m going to speak out and tell the truth whether you like it or not. I\u2019m going to bring people together and I\u2019m going to go out and win. They want to talk about Sen. Warnock and whatever he did to get into office for this year. But now, he\u2019s going to have to face me if I win this primary, which I know I got a good chance of winning. He\u2019s going to have to face me and it\u2019s not going to be as easy as he thought it was going to be. People have shown that by the vote that they did in Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker\u2019s interview with Breitbart News also comes as the Atlanta Braves won the World Series on Tuesday night, capping a wild year for Atlanta when it comes to Major League Baseball (MLB) after the league moved the All-Star Game to Denver because of Georgia\u2019s new election integrity law. Walker said he was proud of the Braves for the win and slammed Democrats and MLB for costing black businesses significant business opportunities \u2014 that he hopes the World Series win for the Braves made up for \u2014 by moving the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18582530\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Carmen-Mandato_Getty-Images-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18582530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Carmen-Mandato_Getty-Images-7.jpg\" alt=\"Braves\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manager Brian Snitker #43 of the Atlanta Braves hoists the commissioner\u2019s trophy following the team\u2019s 7-0 victory against the Houston Astros in Game Six to win the 2021 World Series at Minute Maid Park on November 02, 2021, in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Carmen Mandato\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very I\u2019m very proud of the Braves because they sort of saved the day for a lot of the small businesses that the MLB took it away from them by moving the All-Star Game to Denver,\u201d Walker told Breitbart News. \u201cThey sort of took some of those business opportunities, and those store owners they lost business. I think the Braves now going into the World Series, and winning it, I think it brought that attention back and also is one of the ultimate redemptions I think you can ever do.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>A successful black athlete himself before his entrance into politics, Walker also said he thinks Democrats like Warnock have avoided discussing the negative impact MLB\u2019s move had on the city of Atlanta and many black-owned businesses. He compared it, too, to Democrats avoiding discussing the impact of their defunding police policies on black communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you think about it, they don\u2019t talk about anything like that because when you think about defunding the police, who does it hurt? It hurts a lot of your minority and more impoverished areas,\u201d Walker said. \u201cThey don\u2019t talk about that. They don\u2019t talk about defunding the police and how it will hurt those areas. People that have money are going to have to pay for their own security. And they don\u2019t want to mention that about moving the All-Star Game because it hurt businesses and that\u2019s not the agenda they want to play. That\u2019s why I think people got to wake up and educate themselves and know, \u2018wait a minute, guys, you\u2019re saying certain things.\u2019 But they\u2019re not saying it because they love you or want to help you, they\u2019re saying it because they\u2019re going to hurt you. All of us are in it together and that\u2019s what\u2019s so sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added too that he thinks the Braves\u2019 World Series win represents the \u201ctrue American dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOne thing that made me so proud is this showed how great this country is,\u201d Walker said. \u201cIf you think about this for a moment, I\u2019ve heard just how bad America is during the Olympics, how people wanted to protest the flag, and how they teach this in school and stuff. But yet this is the only place where you can get the true American dream. You see the Braves win the World Series but then did you see some of the players that were on the team \u2014 the MVP \u2014 they\u2019re from other countries. They\u2019re not from America. So they came here to get that dream because you can only get it here in America. That old saying, was it Don King? He said, \u2018Only in America.\u2019 And that\u2019s true. And that\u2019s what I think was so great: to see the Braves team win when in the mid-season people didn\u2019t even expect them to be there. But then all of a sudden, the owners and the management all came together and went out and got players and stuff and you look at what happened. They accomplished something you only can do once a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two episodes \u2014 the Braves winning the World Series and the red wave in Tuesday\u2019s elections nationwide \u2014 combine to shock Democrats heading into next year\u2019s midterm elections, in that the Braves\u2019 win serves as a jolt to Atlanta that the All-Star Game removal took away and the Youngkin and other GOP wins represent a similar comeback for embattled Republicans after a brutal 2020. Walker said he thinks part of why Youngkin won is because he focused on what matters to ordinary Americans. But Democrats are obsessed, he said, with a radical and out-of-touch agenda in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think that\u2019s one reason that Youngkin won was because he got down to the critical things that people care about,\u201d Walker said. \u201cThey [the Democrats] want to do all these spending bills. But do people know that they are trying to write a check that we shouldn\u2019t be able to cash? Do they know that we\u2019re writing a check that our grandkids and our kids may have to answer for? We can\u2019t do that. They want to spend money, spend money, spend money \u2014 wait, what is going to happen to this economy? It is great to spend money, but you got to have money to spend. People are not working today. We just came out of a pandemic. And now we\u2019re trying to pay people to not go to work? You can\u2019t do that. They\u2019re trying to rush it through right now. They\u2019re trying to pass it through with all these other issues coming into play.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18461170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1235507385-e1635202156394.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18461170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1235507385-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"PERRY, GA - SEPTEMBER 25: Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally featuring former US President Donald Trump on September 25, 2021 in Perry, Georgia. Georgia Secretary of State candidate Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) and Georgia Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate State Sen. Burt Jones (R-GA) also appeared as guests at the rally. (Photo by Sean Rayford\/Getty Images)\" width=\"734\" height=\"489\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally featuring former US President Donald Trump on September 25, 2021, in Perry, Georgia. (Photo by Sean Rayford\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When it comes to critical race theory, as a black man, Walker thinks it is not a fair or accurate representation of this country, and he is concerned the federal government has too much sway over children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been saying this for a long time that I do not want the federal government raising my child,\u201d Walker said. \u201cI think people are starting to see they don\u2019t want the federal government to be co-parent to that child. it is amazing that they forgot about teaching arithmetic, history, social studies. Schools, they try to teach critical race theory. And you know what, that\u2019s not what parents want taught. Parents want something else. Then, now, you see where the federal government is trying to weaponize themselves and they are even going out after the parents for speaking out. Where in this country do we do that to anyone? We have the right to have our opinions, we have the right to speak. But right now, with this administration here, they are going to go out and go after you if you speak out. Normally, if you speak out, they call you a racist. It gets you quiet. That\u2019s what I was telling people today, \u2018we can\u2019t just sit on our hands anymore. We can\u2019t just sit back and just let them call you a racist.\u2019 You got to speak out and say, \u2018No, that\u2019s not what I want.\u2019 I won\u2019t defund any police. I won\u2019t defund the police. I want us to take care of the military. I don\u2019t want us to do what we did in Afghanistan. We have to stand up right now because if we don\u2019t, we won\u2019t recognize this country. We have a group getting together that we elected into office that decide things like that \u2014 this is not just one person. This is more than one person deciding that. And that\u2019s one reason I told people I\u2019m running for office. I\u2019m not promising to do this and promising to do that, but I am going to promise I know how to bring people together. And I hope people see that when I see when someone like Sen. McConnell said he\u2019s going to endorse Herschel Walker. And at the same time, President Trump endorsed Herschel Walker, when it showed that we can come together and we can go out to do something to help this country and save this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker also said he believes that Democrats will be doing everything they can to rebrand after Tuesday\u2019s crushing defeat and that he is gearing up for them, in particular, to try to falsely blame Republicans for their push to defund police. He also warned the establishment media will help Democrats push inaccurate information and said that Republicans need to fight back harder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you this here, there\u2019s no doubt, I can guarantee that the Democrats are going to change their approach of what they\u2019re going to be doing now,\u201d Walker said. \u201cI guarantee you this, they\u2019re running around right now trying to figure out how they can change their approach. For months they talked about defunding the police. Well, they found out that was a terrible idea. Now they say they want to fund the police. It is sad, but right now, they\u2019re going to come back and blame defunding the police all on the Republicans. They are going to blame it on them, but they will figure out a way to do it. That\u2019s what is so sad, now they are going to try to change and say, \u2018nope that\u2019s not what we said. We did not say that. That\u2019s not how we put it.\u2019 They got to get people to believe it, but we got to get our media to tell the truth. We got to get them to tell the truth. Give the people the truth and let them decide. I grew up in south Georgia, where my parents work extremely hard. My family works extremely hard, and they come home and watch one station. They take that station as being gospel and that station is just giving them their opinions. They\u2019re not telling them the true news. That\u2019s what we\u2019re having to deal with today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL star running back Herschel Walker, a Republican running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday that \u201cGeorgia is next\u201d after Republican Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2315279,"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-965053","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\/965053","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965053\/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=965053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}