As a candidate, Walker has also said he would support a national ban on abortions, including a version with no exceptions for cases involving rape, incest or a woman’s health.
Walker’s son, Christian Walker, published a series of tweets and videos Monday and Tuesday arguing his father — not the Daily Beast — was lying.
“The abortion card drops yesterday — it’s literally his handwriting on the card. They say they have receipts,” the younger Walker said in one of his videos. “He gets on Twitter. He lies about it. Okay, I’m done. Done. Everything has been a lie.”
Christian Walker, who participated in a campaign event for his father late last year, went on to criticize fellow conservatives who voice support for “family values” but overlook elements of the Georgia candidate’s past, such as reports regarding Herschel Walker’s children: Walker’s son said his father “wasn’t in the house” raising four children conceived with “four different women,” but was instead “out having sex with other women.”
“I don’t care about someone who has a bad past and takes accountability. But how DARE YOU LIE and act as though you’re some ‘moral, Christian, upright man,’” Christian Walker tweeted. “You’ve lived a life of DESTROYING other peoples lives. How dare you.”
Herschel Walker appeared to respond to his son on Twitter Monday night, saying, “I LOVE my son no matter what.”
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Despite the criticism, many prominent Republicans and conservative groups are standing by Walker’s candidacy, according to NBC.
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision earlier this year overturning Roe v. Wade, effectively returning the question of abortion access to the states, abortion has proven to be one of several issues motivating voters across the country in the lead-up to the midterm elections next month — including in Georgia. According to a poll conducted by the Atlanta Journal Constitution in September, 48% of respondents said they are more likely to back a candidate who would support abortion rights. Meanwhile, only 25% of likely voters said they’re more likely to vote for a candidate who wants to limit abortion — although that number was nearly half among Republicans (47%).
Walker’s Democratic opponent, pastor and current U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, has publicly expressed support for abortion rights and identified as a “pro-choice pastor.”
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