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Patricia Murphy: Herschel Walker made a bad situation worse on the campaign trail

There’s an old saying in communications that you should get your bad news out early and get it out yourself.

Herschel Walker had already gone 0-2 last week by the time he took the stage in a dusty lumberyard in Wadley, Georgia, a three-hour drive from Atlanta and 3 1/2 hours after his speech was initially supposed to begin.

It was his first public event since the Daily Beast broke a blockbuster story alleging that he had paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion, even though he campaigns saying he opposes abortion, even in cases of rape or incest.

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