Herschel Walker, the US Senate candidate in Georgia, was desperate to change the subject on Monday as he appeared on Fox News to answer an accusation raised in a story from The Daily Beast reporting that he paid for a woman to seek an abortion in 2009.
Mr Walker’s appearance with Fox’s Sean Hannity came as a surprise to many campaign professionals on Twitter, who remarked about what a likely mistake it was to put him on TV immediately after the story released. Mr Hannity’s questions also seemed to come as a surprise to the candidate himself, who pivoted to talking about rising consumer prices and America’s immigration system when questioned about why an unnamed woman would have evidence that he sent her a $700 check around the same time she sought an abortion procedure.
