CARROLLTON, Ga. — U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton mocked Democrats for backing sweeping legislative packages that promise so much spending that “it would be an insult to drunken sailors.” U.S. Sen. Rick Scott pinned the blame for high inflation and “men destroying women’s sports” on Democrats.
And Herschel Walker, the beleaguered Georgia GOP U.S. Senate hopeful, drew applause Tuesday as he blasted high gas prices, “woke” policies and the prospect of transgender members of the military — familiar talking points designed to energize wavering conservatives.
“You can see what they’re doing. They’ll do whatever it takes and say whatever they have to say to take this seat right here,” Walker said to hundreds of supporters in the parking lot of a west Georgia strip mall. “But I don’t think they know that they woke up a bear.”
