Herschel Walker’s Georgia Senate run is so much bigger than football | Opinion
“Run Herschel, Run!”
If only the small army of Herschel Walker supporters expressing the retro-chant were at a football game. Now that might have been cool. Back in the 1980s.
Instead, they were yelling from a street corner in downtown Savannah, Georgia – across the street from a vocal group of Raphael Warnock backers – before the US Senate debate in mid-October.
That made the football chant rather sad, given the stakes of one of the nation’s most heated races in the midterm elections.
Sure, Walker, the Republican candidate, is a legend in these parts, flowing back decades to his exploits at the University of Georgia that included winning a Heisman Trophy and a national championship.
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But this isn’t the football environment. It’s about the potential that control of the US Senate could hinge on the voting by Georgians on Tuesday – added to the massive number, in excess of 2.5 million, who cast ballots early.
Given Walker’s lack of political experience and the controversies that have dogged his campaign – including the two women who contend that the candidate campaigning on an anti-abortion platform paid for their abortions several years ago – how did it come to this?