RECAP: Top Reasons Why Herschel Walker Refuses to Accept Three Debates Against Reverend Warnock After Vowing to Debate “Any Day of the Week”

It’s been more than two months since Reverend Warnock committed to three general election debates against GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker — and more than two months of Walker refusing to commit to those debates despite previous comments that he would get on stage with Reverend Warnock “any day of the week.”

It’s no wonder why: since entering the race, Walker’s lies, scandals, and bizarre statements have been put on full display across the state — “bar[ring] press,” “pushing away voters,” and showing Georgians he isn’t ready to represent the people.

Some of many reasons why Walker refuses to accept the three debates Reverend Warnock committed to months ago? 

Walker can’t defend the many lies he’s fed to Georgians about almost every aspect of his life — and he’s afraid to do it on stage for all of Georgia to see.

1. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to explain to Georgia voters why he claimed to own a company that doesn’t even exist. 
2. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to answer for the fact that he said he employed 800 people when in reality, loan documents revealed his company  had just eight employees. 
3. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to talk about the fact that he repeatedly lied about working in law enforcement and being an FBI agent.
4. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to admit that he lied about founding a charity for veterans — when in reality, he made a fortune serving as a spokesperson for a private hospital chain’s for-profit program that “preyed upon veterans and service members while defrauding the government.”
5. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to tell voters why he lied about his academic record — falsely claiming to be in the top 1% of his college graduating class, despite never graduating, and falsely claiming to have been his high school’s valedictorian.
6. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to explain why he promised to pay back his company loans, and that he and his business partners owed creditors millions of dollars.
7. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to be honest with Georgia voters about why he misstated his earnings by millions of dollars in his personal financial disclosures — and still isn’t being honest about the sources of his income as required by federal law.
8. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to explain why he’s denying that Trump ever said the election was “stolen” — something the former president has repeated hundreds of times.
9. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to get on stage and admit that he’s a compulsive liar who’s afraid for Georgia voters to know the truth. 

Walker can’t defend his policy positions that are wrong for Georgia, refuses to take positions on key issues or offer solutions, and “knows effectively nothing about public affairs.”

1. Herschel Walker says it’s “totally unfair” to ask him if he supports the bipartisan infrastructure bill that the Senate passed last year: “I have to see all the facts.”

2. Herschel Walker called efforts to suspend the federal gas tax and save Georgians money at the pump a “gimmick.”

3. Herschel Walker supports a national ban on abortion, saying it’s “a problem” one isn’t already in place. He supports making abortion illegal, even in cases of rape, incest, or to protect the life of the mother.  

4. Herschel Walker refuses to say how he would have voted on legislation to protect marriage equality.

5. Asked about solutions to gun violence, Herschel Walker proposed “a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that’s looking at social media.”

5. Herschel Walker tried to claim that the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, named in honor of Lewis’ life’s work to secure voting rights, “just doesn’t fit what John Lewis stood for.”

6. Herschel Walker refuses to say how he would have voted on legislation to protect women’s access to contraception.
   

 Walker’s bizarre statements and gaffes have him scared to take the stage.

1. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to answer for his nonsensical comments on climate policy, which he described as “our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air.”
2. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to confront his skepticism of evolution, claiming the existence of apes disproves evolution science.  
3. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to be embarrassed detailing how the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, named in honor of Lewis’ life’s work to secure voting rights, “just doesn’t fit what John Lewis stood for.”

4. Walker doesn’t want to explain why he claimed he possessed a “dry mist” product that would — “as you walk through the door” — “kill any COVID on your body.”
   

Walker can’t explain the predatory scams, schemes, and snake oils he’s been involved in.

1. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to explain his connection to a false charity for veterans he claimed to have created. In reality, he made a fortune serving as a spokesperson for a private hospital chain’s for-profit program that “preyed upon veterans and service members while defrauding the government.” 
2. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to justify his partnership with an energy company that allegedly targeted “the elderly and those with language barriers,” scamming them into “contracts they did not understand” by “falsely saying they would save them money.”
3. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to take accountability for “spen[ding] years promoting health products with dubious claims” that were “not supported by medical evidence generally accepted by the medical community” — products that were “commercial failures, cost Walker and his business partners millions of dollars and put his companies into deep debt, for which creditors have repeatedly sued Walker and his associates to recover.”
4. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to answer why he hasn’t repaid other business loans — including a $600,000 loan that a judge has repeatedly told him and his business partners to repay. 
5. Herschel Walker doesn’t want to talk about why he mocked businesses for taking PPP loans to keep workers on payroll — despite taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in PPP loans himself and sitting on the board of a company that took “more than $9.7 million while, at the same time, laying off 90% of its hotel staff.”
   

  Georgians are seeing through Herschel Walker, and he knows it.

1. Valdosta Daily Times: “He has no grasp of public policy and no knowledge of issues that matter to the people of Georgia.”
2. Georgia Recorder: “Refusing to debate is an act of disrespect, for the office and for voters trying to inform themselves.”
3. Savannah Morning News: “The Walker campaign spends its time shielding him from all but the true believers and spinning his nonsensical comments, policy positions and lies.”
4. Albany Herald: “Herschel Walker the Senatorial candidate is not great. He’s not good. He is, to put it kindly, an embarrassment.”

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