NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Georgia’s Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker said Saturday she has “never denied” the existence of children she has not publicly revealed before, telling conservative Christians that his children “know the truth.”
Speaking to a friendly audience at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual conference “The Road to the Majority”, Walker said the revelations about his children only encouraged his campaign.
“Well, first of all, they knew the truth. You know, I’ve never denied any of my children and I love them more than I love anything, “he said.” And they didn’t do anything that just makes me want to fight harder because I’m tired I am misleading the American people. I’m tired of people cheating on my family. “
Walker’s comments came after The Daily Beast reported that the former football star has four children, including two sons and a daughter, whom he has never discussed in public. Walker has repeatedly criticized absent fathers over the years, calling in particular on black men to play an active role in children’s lives, maintaining a relationship with their older son, Christian Walker, as an example.
Walker, who was interviewed on stage in Nashville, Tennessee, by coalition chairman Ralph Reed, said he “knows what I signed up for when I started, and they don’t realize it.”
“No weapon created against me should ever thrive,” he said, eliciting loud applause and applause.
Walker will face Democratic Sen. Rafael Warnock in the November general election, and the race will help determine which party will control the Senate, which is now split 50-50 next year.
Walker, backed by senior Republicans, including former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has faced serious allegations during his campaign, including threatening his ex-wife’s life and spreading many lies.
This includes drastically inflating his achievements as a businessman, overestimating his role in a profit program that allegedly chased veterans while deceiving the government, and his claim that he graduated from the top of his class at the University of Georgia. . He did not graduate, as first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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