ICYMI: Walker Claims Trump Never Said 2020 Election Was Stolen

In his first week as Georgia Republicans’ nominee for U.S. Senate, Herschel Walker claimed former President Trump has never said the 2020 election was stolen — one of his most blatant lies to date. 

In an interview with Fox 5 Atlanta, Walker claimed that Donald Trump has never alleged that the 2020 election was stolen. When the interviewer called out Walker’s lie, the Trump-tapped candidate doubled down — and folks are reacting. See for yourself: 

Late Night with Seth Meyers

TRANSCRIPT: 

Meyers: “Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker said in a new interview that he’s never heard former President Trump say that the 2020 election was stolen from him.”

Meyers: “That’s right. Herschel Walker says that he’s never heard Trump say that the 2020 election was stolen, which is kind of like saying, you’ve never heard Flo talk about Progressive. I’ve never heard her talk about anything else!”

Newsweek: Herschel Walker Denies Trump Ever Said Election Was ‘Stolen’

• GOP candidate Herschel Walker, currently running to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate, denied that former President Donald Trump has ever claimed the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

• Following Trump’s defeat, he and his allies repeatedly claimed the election was stolen due to widespread voter fraud in key battleground states, despite any evidence to back up this theory. The issue has become a test of loyalty to the former president within the GOP, and the candidates he has endorsed have largely parroted these claims.

• But Walker, who received Trump’s endorsement for his Senate campaign, said he has never heard Trump claim the election was stolen during an interview with Atlanta-based news station WAGA-TV this week.

• News anchor Russ Spencer confronted Walker about the claims during a testy exchange, noting the importance of a candidate’s embrace of the claims to receive the former president’s endorsement, asking Walker if he believes the election was stolen.

• “I think reporters said that. I don’t know whether President Trump said that. He’s never said that to me,” Walker responded, prompting Spencer to point out that Trump has “said it over and over. Please.”

• Walker hit back: “I’m not saying the president—but everyone knows that something happened in the election.”

• Walker said if he did not believe Trump’s claims, he “would disagree with him.”

• “But in that instance right there, I said, ‘Guys, there’s people that they’re unhappy with the election. Do you know what happened? I think something happened. I don’t know what it was—but something happened because people are angry,” Walker said.

• Trump, indeed, has claimed numerous times that he only lost the election due to election fraud. While speaking at the American Freedom Tour in Austin, Texas, earlier in May, he said he was writing a book about the alleged fraud called The Crime of the Century.

• His election fraud claims resulted in pushes for audits in swing states, which upheld President Joe Biden‘s victory, as well as the violent riot at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, when a large group of Trump supporters attempted to block the certification of the Electoral College votes.

Raw Story: Herschel Walker argues with reporter: Trump ‘never said’ election was stolen

• Hershel Walker, the leading Republican Senate candidate in Georgia, insisted that former President Donald Trump has never said that the 2020 election was rigged or stolen.

• In a video that was shared on Twitter this week, Walker speaks to a reporter who questions him about Trump’s false election claims.

• “I think you — I think reporters said that,” Walker insists. “I don’t know whether President Trump ever said that because he never said that to me.”

• “He says it over and over,” the reporter notes.

• “No, no, no, no,” Walker replies. “I’ve never heard President Trump ever say that.
  

The Root: Herschel Walker Claims Trump Never Said The Presidential Election Was ‘Stolen’

• The Georgia primary races have started today, and GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker couldn’t help but give another priceless soundbite. No, it’s not that Walker has a cure for COVID or the lack of understanding of America’s energy policies. According to Newsweek, Walker claims that former President Donald Trump never said the 2020 Presidental election was stolen.

• During an interview with Atlanta-based news station WAGA-TV this week, news anchor Russ Spencer asked Walker about the claims.

• “I think reporters said that. I don’t know whether President Trump said that. He’s never said that to me,” Walker responded, prompting Spencer to point out that Trump has “said it over and over. Please.”

• ​​Then Walker went on to say that “something went on in the election,” never specifying what…

• Last week, Trump said at a rally in Texas that he was writing a book named The Crime of the Century based on his false allegations of voter fraud, regarding the 2020 election.

• Was Herschel Walker just not around on Jan. 6th, 2021, or see the audits across the country that found no evidence of voter tampering?

• Georgia voters, make the right decision, please.

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• Walker, who was endorsed by Donald Trump, also said in his interview with Spencer that he never heard the former president claim the 2020 election was “stolen.”

• “Do you think the election was stolen?” Spencer asked Walker.

• “I think reporters say that. I don’t know whether President Trump has said it. Because he’s never said that to me,” Walker said.

• When Spencer says Trump has said the election was stolen “over and over,” Walker replied by saying, “No, no, no, no. He has never — I’ve never heard President Trump ever say that.”

• “But everyone knows that something happened in the election,” Walker continued.

• A Walker campaign source told PEOPLE the candidate “was simply saying it isn’t something the former President talks to him about and that the media obsesses over President Trump’s 2020 post-election comments without acknowledging to this day that Stacey Abrams still hasn’t conceded.”

• CNN reports that Walker attended a March rally in Commerce, Georgia, where Trump said the election was stolen, a claim he’s made repeatedly despite any evidence of wrongdoing.

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