It was just a matter of time, and I’m only surprised it took them this long. Georgia Senate candidate Herschel, a Republican has been polling at the No. The No. 1 slot in the forthcoming primary elections. It seems that one of Walker’s opponents wants to take his place. Predictably, they are using Walker’s past issues with domestic violence and mental health to unseat him from his position.
I have four words for this: It ain’t gonna work.
RedState’s Joe Cunningham reported on a video posted by one of Walker’s opponents:
Those allegations are part of an ad dropped against Walker by Gary Black’s campaign. Black is currently Georgia’s Commissioner of Agriculture and wants to take Walker off the top spot in the primary in Georgia. He will also be running against Warnock as the Republican nominee. The most recent poll shows Walker leading Black by 58 points (66-8). This gap is fairly constant, however Black hopes to put a significant dent in it with attacks ads.
It appears that Walker was not honest about the past with his ex-wife and his mental health struggles. The narrator argues that if the former football star were to receive the GOP nomination, the Democrats would make Walker’s issues the campaign’s focal point, thereby ensuring that Sen. Raphael Warnock remains in his seat.
Black could be correct. If Walker is nominated, the Democrats could seize on the opportunity to dredge up the candidate’s past issues. But, as Black’s campaign is likely to find out, these attacks will not land in the way one would expect.
First, it is misleading to say that Walker has never dealt with any past problems or been honest about his destructive and toxic behavior. During an interview with Axios last December, the candidate stated that he is “accountable” for his violent behavior against his former wife and that people should not be “ashamed” about dealing with mental illness.
Axios
The former college and pro football star is confronting his history of mental illness head-on during his campaign for the Republican Party’s nomination, after the airing of some concerns among GOP leadership and voters.
Walker said he’s “better now than 99% of the people in America. … Just like I broke my leg; I put the cast on. It healed.”
When asked about his relationship with his former wife, Cindy Grossman, he said, “I’m always accountable to whatever I’ve ever done. And that’s what I tell people: I’m accountable to it.”
He denied that he had threatened to harm two women, and addressed the allegations of his behavior in relation to threats he made in 2012 and 2002. “[P]eople can’t just make up and add on and say other things that’s not the truth. They want me to address things that they made up.”
Walker’s past has been discussed publicly before. Grossman and Walker spoke to each other on ABC News and CNN about their experiences, as well as details about threats, and how they choked. The athlete told Axios that he considers himself “best friends” with Grossman today.
Christian Walker was the couple’s first child. Christian Walker has been well-known for his invective and savage political tweets via social media.
Walker published a 2008 book about his struggles with dissociative Identity Disorder. He discussed violent thoughts he had towards others and himself. Walker has long been an advocate for mental wellness in military personnel and promised that, should he be elected, he would fight to increase mental health resources within the Armed Services, health care and law enforcement.
“Most of the things I’ve done after my struggles have shown people that you can get knocked down and you can get up,” he told Axios. “And that’s what I want people to realize.”
“Don’t be ashamed to address your issues,” he continued. “For a man, it’s very tough. For an African American man, it’s even harder. However, it’s something I believe in. And that’s one of the major reasons I decided to run.”
If nominated, there is a chance Democrats will bring up Walker’s past. It is also possible they will ignore the subject altogether. And you likely already know why.
Despite the activist media’s attempts to downplay Sen. Warnock’s domestic violence issues – which are far more recent – the news still got out. The senator’s wife accused him of deliberately running over her foot in his SUV during an argument. The Daily Mail reported:
She tells the officer that she had been trying to get Warnock’s signature for a passport so she can take their children to Africa for a family funeral.
‘He’s like, ‘Ouleye, close the door. I’m leaving,’ she tells the officer.
‘And I was like, ‘just hear me out. If you lost your mother, then I could have your children. Wouldn’t you want me to let them go with you to the funeral? He just started backing up the car. He wasn’t going fast, I’m not bleeding. But I just can’t believe he’d run me over.’
Asked whether she thought it was intentional, she replied: ‘Obviously. It was me standing there. The door was open and I’m leaning into the car. How can you drive the car when I’m leaning into it?’
The officer asked her to fill out a report.
‘This man’s running for United States Senate, and all he cares about right now is his reputation,’ she said.
‘I’ve been very quiet about the way that he is for the sake of my kids and his reputation.
‘I’ve tried to keep the way that he acts under wraps for a long time, and today he crossed the line. That is exactly what’s happening here. And he’s a great actor. He is phenomenal at putting on a really good show.’
On March 1, the former-wife of Ga. Senate Candidat @ReverendWarnockPolice were called to investigate a domestic violence claim. She told them, as per this video, “he’s a great actor” [via Fox News] pic.twitter.com/swF0DqXlC3
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 23, 2020
If the Democrats want to bring up Walker’s past, they will also have to deal with Warnock’s issues coming back to bite him. Perhaps his wife has something to add about Walker’s behavior. Others might be willing to share their own stories. Perhaps it is not something Democrats would like to try.
Either way, while Walker’s past is troubling, it is not hard to see he is a different person today. Even more challenging is the fact that Walker admitted his mistakes. Democrats must find another strategy to maintain that seat.
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