“I never said that,” Walker recently told a reporter, who asked about his repeated false claims that he earned a degree at the University of Georgia and was a top student in his graduating class
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Former football star Herschel Walker just won Georgia's Republican Senate primary on Tuesday. In November, he'll face Democratic Senator and Pastor Raphael G. Warnock in the general election. Until then, he might want to get his story straight about his college career at the University of Georgia.
Walker attended the school, where he became a Heisman Trophy winner and a College Football Hall of Famer, before leaving after his junior season to play football professionally in the short-lived United States Football League.
He claimed on his campaign website that he later returned to UGA to finish his studies and graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice. After The Atlanta Journal-Constitution askedaboutthegraduationclaim, the Walker campaign deleted the reference from his bio.
The line about earning his degree is still visible in screenshots from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which CNN references in a fact-checking story about Herschel's claims. (It's also still included in an author bio for an edition of his book Breaking Free on Amazon.)
"I was majoring in Criminal Justice at UGA when I left to play...
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