WADLEY, Ga. — Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker rejected claims that he paid for a 2009 abortion for a woman who said she later bore his child, saying at a campaign stop that it was part of a plot by allies of Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock to damage his campaign.
“I know why you’re here,” he read from a prepared statement to a few dozen reporters at an east Georgia lumber yard. “You’re here because the Democrats are desperate to hold on to this seat here, and they’re desperate to make this race about my family.”
Walker’s campaign was in damage control following The Daily Beast’s reports, which undercut his opposition to abortion, and criticism from his adult son Christian, who labeled his father a “liar,” accused him of threatening his family with violence and urged him to wear a condom.
