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An investigation by The Daily Beast revealed that the candidate for the Georgia Senate in the midterm elections paid in 2009 to have this procedure performed on his ex-girlfriend, despite defining himself as a firm opponent of abortion. The controversy has shaken the campaign, marked by the annulment of ‘Roe vs. Wade’ last July, although Republican leaders such as former President Donald Trump or the Republican senator from Florida, Rick Scott, have reiterated their support.
The leaders of the Republican Party in the United States reiterated their support for the candidate for the Senate from the state of Georgia Herschel Walker, who is at the center of the controversy.
The controversy began when The Daily Beast published that the candidate, a staunch defender of the total ban on abortion in the country, would have encouraged and paid for the voluntary termination of a former girlfriend’s pregnancy in 2009.
After hearing the news, former President Donald Trump issued a statement defending Walker and assuring that “he has strongly denied the accusations against him and I have no doubt that he is correct.”
On the other hand, the Republican senator for the state of Florida, Rick Scott, affirmed that the candidate is facing a “defamatory machine”. He added that “when Democrats are losing, like they are now, they lie, cheat and smear their opponents. That’s what’s happening right now.”
In turn, the Senate Leadership Fund, a political action committee that defines itself as an entity that seeks to “build a Republican majority in the Senate that defends the United States from the destructive agenda of the extreme left” of the Democrats.
An adviser to the Walker campaign indicated that the Republican candidate has raised around 500,000 dollars in support since he decided to respond publicly to the news of The Daily Beast newspaper and before this, the director of the Leadership Fund, the Republican from Kentucky Steven Law He noted that “if you’re in a fight, people will come to your aid.”
For Law, a figure close to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, the race in Georgia has become increasingly competitive despite what he called attempts by Democrats to affect Walker’s personal life.
Walker’s son lashes out at his father questioning his values
Christian Walker, son of the Senate candidate, was one of the first to react after his father flatly denied the published information. Through his Twitter account, the young man sent a message to his father.
“I know my mom and I would really appreciate it if my dad Herschel Walker would stop lying and making fun of us. You weren’t a ‘family man’ when you left us to sleep with a bunch of women, threatened to kill us and we had to move six times. in six months fleeing from your violence,” says the young man.
I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us.
You’re not a “family man” when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence.
— Christian Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) October 4, 2022
Despite the 23-year-old’s accusations, his father responded through the same social network that he loves him “no matter what.”
Woman claims Walker paid for her abortion
Herschel Walker has been in favor of a nationwide ban on abortion and argues that it should not be allowed even in the case of rape, incest or risk to the life of the mother. In fact, during this campaign for the midterm elections, he has compared the termination of pregnancy to murder.
Well, a woman who claims to be his ex-girlfriend gave the newspaper The Daily Beast a bank deposit made by Walker for $700 with which he would have covered the payment for the interruption of her pregnancy. The events would have occurred in 2009.
EXCLUSIVE: A woman told The Daily Beast that Herschel Walker urged her to get an abortion after she and the Georgia Senate candidate conceived a child while dating in 2009. The woman said she had the procedure and that Walker reimbursed her for it.https://t.co/hfokJeJ2z7
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 3, 2022
Similarly, the woman assures that she received a card from the now applicant in which she wished her a speedy recovery and adds that Walker never regretted the facts. Likewise, she explains that she tells what happened because she can’t stand “the hypocrisy” of the candidate.
The race for the Senate intensifies with a month to go before the mid-term elections
The facts are known when there is little more than a month to go before the mid-term elections in which 34 of the 100 seats in the National Senate are renewed.
Walker seeks to unseat the current senator for the state of Georgia, the Democrat Raphael Warnock, who is also a pastor of the Atlanta church. The legislator supports access to abortion and reproductive health rights. He also strongly criticized the US Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, which regulated abortion at the federal level.
Currently, despite having 50 Republican senators and 50 Democrats, the latter have the decisive vote of Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the president of that legislative body.
If the Senate goes to Republicans, the party would be in control of judicial nominations and could be a thorn in the side of political debates for the final two years of Joe Biden’s term.
With EFE, AP and Reuters
