Herschel Walker Archives

Huge Turnout on First Day of Runoff Voting in Georgia

November 29, 2022 Buck Banks

301,500

“Georgia voters set a single-day early turnout record Monday as 301,500 people stormed to the polls on the first day they were open in most counties ahead of the U.S. Senate runoff,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Trading Brains

October 17, 2022 Buck Banks

If you and Herschel Walker traded brains,
You would not be taxed for capital gains.
You’d be slow as an old jock
And dumb as a sack of rocks,
And you’d belong locked up with the criminally insane.

Would You Trade Brains with Herschel Walker?

October 17, 2022 Buck Banks

“You cannot tell me that anybody 60 years old would trade brains with Herschel Walker, ’cause you wouldn’t.”

— James Carville, in an interview with Vanity Fair.

Newt Gingrich Is Still Wrong

October 10, 2022 Buck Banks

“I think he’s the most important Senate candidate in the country because he’ll do more to change the Senate just by the sheer presence, by his confidence, by his deep commitment to Christ, by the degree to which he has – you know, he’s been through a long, tough period. He had a lot of concussions coming out of football.”

— Newt Gingrich, defending Herschel Walker (R) on Fox News.

Walker Girlfriend Stunned, Not Shocked

October 10, 2022 Buck Banks

“Sure, I was stunned, but I guess it also doesn’t shock me, that maybe there are just so many of us that he truly doesn’t remember. But then again, if he really forgot about it, that says something, too.”

— A woman who told the Daily Beast that U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) paid for her abortion, after Walker denied it.

Message from an Estranged Son

October 10, 2022 Buck Banks

“Wear a condom, damn.”

— Christian Walker, responding to reports that his father, Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R), paid for a girlfriend to have an abortion.

Walker Claims to Own Nonexistent Companies

April 13, 2022 Buck Banks

$29 million

“Former NFL star Herschel Walker has made millions in business ventures since he retired in 1997, and he claims to be worth more than $29 million today,” the Daily Beast reports. “But despite that success, the Republican Senate hopeful and longtime friend of Donald Trump has, for whatever reason, chosen to dramatically inflate his business record. … In doing so, Walker has established a parallel record of demonstrably false claims, many of which appear to bear no resemblance to reality whatsoever.”

Walker Favored for Georgia Senate Seat

August 20, 2021 Buck Banks

54%

A new Fabrizio Lee poll on behalf of Donald Trump’s Save America PAC finds former NFL running back Herschel Walker (R) taking 54% of the vote in a GOP primary for Senate. No other GOP candidate polls above 5%.

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Huge Turnout on First Day of Runoff Voting in Georgia

301,500

“Georgia voters set a single-day early turnout record Monday as 301,500 people stormed to the polls on the first day they were open in most counties ahead of the U.S. Senate runoff,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Trading Brains

Would You Trade Brains with Herschel Walker?

“You cannot tell me that anybody 60 years old would trade brains with Herschel Walker, ’cause you wouldn’t.”

— James Carville, in an interview with Vanity Fair.

Newt Gingrich Is Still Wrong

— Newt Gingrich, defending Herschel Walker (R) on Fox News.

Walker Girlfriend Stunned, Not Shocked

“Sure, I was stunned, but I guess it also doesn’t shock me, that maybe there are just so many of us that he truly doesn’t remember. But then again, if he really forgot about it, that says something, too.”

— A woman who told the Daily Beast that U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) paid for her abortion, after Walker denied it.

Message from an Estranged Son

“Wear a condom, damn.”

— Christian Walker, responding to reports that his father, Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R), paid for a girlfriend to have an abortion.

Walker Claims to Own Nonexistent Companies

$29 million

Walker Favored for Georgia Senate Seat

54%

A new Fabrizio Lee poll on behalf of Donald Trump’s Save America PAC finds former NFL running back Herschel Walker (R) taking 54% of the vote in a GOP primary for Senate. No other GOP candidate polls above 5%.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Rick Wilson

— Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the “resign or be fired” ultimatum from the GOP’s Freedom Caucus just 174 days into his tenure as sp[eaker, reported by Punchbowl News.

“Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head droops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.”

— Law360 reports from the second day of Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal trial.

— Jonathan Last

“He’s f**king crazy! The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!”

— New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), quoted by the Associated Press two years ago. Sununu is now backing Trump for president.

Numerati

$71.1 million to $45.2 million

56% to 37%

270,000

50 of 96

New York Times: “Of the 96 possible jurors brought into the room, more than 50 raised their hands to say they couldn’t be fair. They were immediately excused.”

20%