ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Lifelong Republican Joanne Eaton faced a predicament this week as she went to the polls: She wanted the GOP to gain control of the U.S. Senate, but wasn't sure she could cast a ballot for Herschel Walker, her party's embattled candidate in Georgia.
"I'm kind of undecided," the 64-year-old retired stay-at-home mom said of the former football star as she stood outside a polling station Monday in this affluent Atlanta suburb, a former Republican stronghold that in recent years has shifted blue. "His whole history, his background. The violence, the mental health issues. The things he's lied about…"
After voting for Donald Trump in 2016 then Joe Biden in 2020, Eaton said she leaned toward "voting for the people, not the party." She had no qualms about voting for Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who satisfied her with his handling of COVID-19. But Walker, she said with a nervous laugh, "I just don't know."
