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Politics
Amanda Marcotte

Herschel Walker's ex: Shockingly normal

Herschel Walker during his Unite Georgia Bus Stop rally at the Global Mall in Norcross, Ga on Friday September 9, 2022. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

No one has accused former NFL player Herschel Walker — Donald Trump's hand-picked GOP Senate nominee in Georgia — of being a nimble candidate or running a strong campaign. But even by Walker's standards, it was a major fumble to claim he didn't know a woman whose abortion he allegedly paid for in 2009. That's because, as Roger Sollenberger of the Daily Beast (and formerly of Salon) reported in a follow-up to his original story on the abortion scandal, the woman in question is also the mother of one of Walker's kids. 

On Wednesday, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade asked Walker point blank if he knew who the woman was. As is evidently his habit, Walker dissembled, while throwing in some incomprehensible commentary. "Not at all," he said, adding that "everyone is anonymous" and "they want you to confess to something you have no clue about."

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