U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker’s campaign was in turmoil Monday after his adult son accused him of threatening to kill family members, an accusation that came after a news outlet reported the Republican paid his then-girlfriend in 2009 to have an abortion.
Walker, who staunchly opposes abortion, condemned the report by The Daily Beast as a “flat-out lie” and pledged to sue the publication. But his campaign was further rocked when Christian Walker sent a series of tweets attacking his father for “making a mockery” of the family.
“You’re not a ‘family man’ when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence,” wrote Christian Walker, who hasn’t endorsed his father’s campaign or appeared publicly at his events.
In another exchange, Christian Walker tweeted that “every family member of Herschel Walker asked him not to run for office because we all knew (some of) his past.”
“He decided to give us the middle finger and air out all of his dirty laundry in public, while simultaneously lying about it,” he wrote.
The shocking developments threaten to upend the race between Walker and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat who is running for a full six-year term after winning a special election in a 2021 runoff.
His victory was part of a Democratic tandem of wins that flipped control of the Senate, and this year’s race could once again determine which party controls the chamber.
The flurry of tweets...
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