This week, Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker is in Texas giving yet another paid-but-undisclosed speech “behind closed doors.” And so far, it’s not going well:
Walker “tweeted — and quickly deleted” this photo showing himself getting ready to speak in Texas “behind closed doors” while refusing to tell Georgia voters what exactly he’s saying to get paid $76,000.
Walker is talking to Texans about his Senate race “behind closed doors” for big cash instead of talking to Georgians.
- As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last month, the Trump-tapped Georgia Senate candidate has been avoiding Georgians on the campaign trail while maintaining a “busy slate of lucrative paid speaking engagements behind closed doors.” Walker has refused to disclose what he’s saying to get paid behind closed doors as a Senate candidate and has avoided “telling Georgians his positions while trying to skirt more embarrassing gaffes” — but he seems to have no problem telling Texas donors all about his campaign.
Meanwhile, back in Georgia…Republican commentators and former candidates are sounding off on how Walker’s “absolutely disastrous strategy” of avoiding Georgia voters and local press is hurting his campaign.
- Today, 2020 GOP Senate candidate Doug Collins railed into Walker’s avoidance of Georgia voters and local press: “Don’t you believe that there is value to having to answer questions, stand before people, take media questions you may not want to take?”
- Conservative commentator John Fredericks agreed, noting that Walker continuing to avoid questions from Georgians was an “absolutely disastrous strategy,” and that the candidate continues to go down “a very dangerous path.” “I don’t know how you go through an entire primary season not engaging voters, not having debates, not answering questions, not doing a press conference.”
And Walker’s GOP Senate rivals are jumping on the Trump-tapped candidate for consistently avoiding Georgians and limiting most of his appearances to those who pay.
- Gary Black: “I guess Herschel Walker has Texas $$ — not Georgia voters — on his mind.”
- And Latham Saddler: “I’m speaking to Georgia voters tonight in Columbus, GA (it’s free).”
Read AJC’s coverage on Walker’s lack of transparency with Georgians here.
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