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Georgia pastor Raphael Warnock won a seat in the US Senate in 2021 with the help of cheery campaign ads featuring a cute dog. Now Warnock’s Republican opponent in the 2022 midterms, former football star Herschel Walker, is accusing him of lying about the nature of his connection to Alvin the beagle.

“If @ReverendWarnock is willing to lie about having a dog, what else is he hiding?” Walker, who has more than 745,000 followers on Twitter, tweeted on Monday. Walker’s tweet included a satirical YouTube video that features text saying that “Alvin is missing” and that “Alvin disappeared on Tuesday, January 5, 2021,” the day of the runoff election Warnock won.

Yes, this is a fact check about a dog. But it’s also about a central issue in a tight race that could determine control of the Senate. Walker delivered his attack on Warnock’s honesty as the Warnock campaign continued to call Walker’s honesty into question, touting a television ad that highlights Walker’s history of false claims about his own past.

This new Walker claim is false, too.

Facts First: Warnock did not lie about having a dog. CNN could find no evidence that Warnock ever claimed that Alvin was his own dog. Nor could the fact-checking website PolitiFact earlier this year. Warnock’s campaign says he never made such a claim. And Walker’s campaign did not respond to a CNN request to provide any evidence that Warnock did.

There is no sign that Warnock’s campaign, let alone Warnock himself, ever lied...

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