Walker was endorsed by Mitch McConnell's second-in-command
Herschel Walker in one of his frequent appearances on behalf of his friend and patron Donald Trump. Photo: Getty Images One of Donald Trump’s earliest and most outspoken 2022 projects was talking his old friend and one-time employee Herschel Walker, the Georgia Bulldog football legend, into running for the Georgia’s Senate seat defended by Democrat Raphael Warnock.
It was noteworthy that Walker’s entry into the race did not chase off any of the five announced Republican candidates already in the contest. One of them, Gary Black, the state’s elected agricultural commissioner, has even run a radio ad criticizing Walker for favoring immigration “amnesty” . I’m guessing Trump will have Walker’s back on that issue.
Thune is the first member of Senate GOP leadership to endorse Walker, and his support is the newest evidence the former football star has tacitly won the party hierarchy’s blessing. While Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has yet to give the Hall of Famer his explicit backing, the Kentucky Republican told POLITICO last month that “there’s every indication he’s going to be a good candidate.”
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