Three Things to Know as Herschel Walker Takes Stage at Trump Rally

Since the last time Donald Trump came to Georgia to stump for Herschel Walker and his slate of handpicked candidates, Walker’s woes have only worsened and the GOP infighting has hit a whole new level. Here are three things you need to know ahead of Walker’s latest Trump stump:

• It’s been a “brutal” few weeks for Herschel Walker, and the GOP infighting is heating up. Trump’s endorsement has not stopped Walker’s rivals from launching what reporters are describing as “brutal” and “scathing” attacks against his checkered past, as “the gloves are off” in Georgia’s GOP Senate primary. Walker has also recently come under fire for what the Atlanta-Journal Constitution called “exaggerated claims” about his “default, settlement and lawsuit”-filled business record. As the Fox News and Atlanta Journal-Constitution report, the Trump-tapped candidate is getting hit with scathing new advertisements about his “history of violent behavior, confusing remarks and tightlipped approach to the media,” along with fighting words about the “autograph tour” and “entitlement campaign” he’s running for U.S. Senate. 

• Walker will be sharing the stage with fellow Trump-tapped candidates David Perdue and Marjorie Taylor Greene. After claiming to be “mad at both” Brian Kemp and David Perdue, Walker will stand beside Trump-tapped candidate David Perdue on stage in Commerce. Walker will also appear alongside Marjorie Taylor Greene — one of his earliest, most emphatic endorsers — even amid increasing public backlash after Greene came under scrutiny for appearing with Holocaust deniers, Putin apologists, and January 6th supporters at a white nationalist conference.

• Georgia patients, medical providers, and affordable health care advocates are calling out Walker for opposing affordable health care and lower drug costs. On the 12th anniversary week of the Affordable Care Act, Georgia health care advocates gathered to condemn the GOP agenda for Georgia’s health care if Walker gets into office. “If the ACA is dismantled, 1.8 million Georgians with pre-existing conditions would lose insurance protections, Georgians with private insurance could see their premiums skyrocket, and more than 701,000 Georgians could lose their insurance altogether,” said Congresswoman Nikema Williams, Chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia. “This is the Republican agenda for Georgians’ health care if Herschel Walker or any of the Republican Senate contenders beat Senator Reverend Warnock and the Senate returns to Republican hands.”

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