Herschel Walker says he’s ‘glad’ anti-Trump GOP team used his ex-wife’s graphic feedback in new advert

FIRST ON FOX: Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker of Georgia says he’s “glad” {that a} team of Republican operatives adverse to Donald Trump and a few the applicants the previous president’s backing this election cycle went up with a brand new advert on Monday that comes with graphic feedback from Walker’s ex-wife describing him choking her and perilous to shoot her throughout their marriage.

“My opponents launched a dirty attack ad. They dug up an old video and took it out of context,” Walker argues in a brand new video launched Wednesday and shared first with Fox News. “My opponents think they’re hurting me — but I am glad they did this ad.”

The spot by means of the Republican Accountability PAC features a clip of an outdated interview with Walker’s ex-wife Cindy DeAngelis Grossman announcing that “he held the gun to my temple and said he was going to blow my brains out.”

The faculty {and professional} soccer celebrity famous a lot of occasions that he struggled with psychological well being throughout his marriage to Grossman, which lasted from 1983 to 2002, and that he didn’t consider the incidents because of his sickness.

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Walker wrote a e book in 2008 which highlighted his prognosis and struggles with Dissociative Personality Disorder. And he’s lengthy stated that he’s “accountable” for his previous violence in opposition to his ex-wife. He’s additionally detailed that he used to have violent ideas about harming himself and others, and likewise stated he had as much as a dozen selection identities.

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In his video, Walker emphasizes that ‘my ex-wife Cindy and I are good friends — along with her husband and my wife. And I am grateful for all the support Cindy gave me during the hardest time of my life. I came forward back then in an effort to save lives, save marriages – to help other people.”

And Walker appears to take aim in his video at his opponent in November’s election, Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Even regardless that there don’t seem to be any ties between Warnock’s marketing campaign and the brand new advert, Walker charged that “my combatants don’t care concerning the reality. The truth is Sen. Warnock can’t speak about accomplishments. He’s failed Georgia. So he and his pals will lie and lie to.” 

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Republican Accountability PAC said it’ll spend $1 million to target Walker in Georgia and that they plan to spend eight-figures across six crucial battleground states to defeat Republican candidates backed by the former president who support Trump’s unproven claims that his 2020 election loss to President Biden was due massive voter fraud.

“Herschel Walker would possibly had been an excellent soccer participant, however he obviously doesn’t should be a senator,” Sarah Longwell, the group’s treasurer, said. “That’s why our marketing campaign is constructed across the voices of Georgia Republicans who know that he’s undeserving for place of business.”

Walker, who received a Heisman Trophy and helped steer the University of Georgia to a faculty soccer nationwide championship 4 a long time in the past, jumped into the GOP race to stand off in opposition to Warnock ultimate summer season after months of strengthen and encouragement to run for the Senate by means of former President Donald Trump, his longtime good friend. 

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Thanks to his mythical standing amongst many in Georgia and his immense, favorable title reputation within the Peach State, Walker straight away turned into the overpowering front-runner for the GOP Senate nomination and mainly omitted the sphere of lesser-known number one competitors, declining to participate in debates as he targeted his marketing campaign on Warnock. 

Walker ended up trouncing his competitors within the May number one. But Republican strategists stay involved that Walker is unprepared for the incoming fireplace that he’s now receiving throughout the overall election marketing campaign.

Walker has confronted assaults from the Warnock marketing campaign and allied Democratic teams over what they name his “bizarre or false statements.” And he’s additionally been focused over a lot of stories that he overinflated the good fortune of his companies and educational report and has been enjoying protection referring to quite a lot of non-public controversies — from the allegations of previous abuse and threats in opposition to his first spouse to allegations of violence claimed by means of two different girls — which he’s denied — to acknowledging youngsters he fathered out of wedlock that he hadn’t up to now publicly discussed, regardless of criticizing absent fathers for many years.

Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen throughout the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee listening to, within the Dirksen Senate Office Building, on May 10, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by means of Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images) 
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Republicans see Warnock — the senior pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, the place Martin Luther King Jr. used to evangelise, and who defeated GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler by means of a razor-thin margin to seize the seat a yr and a part in the past — as very susceptible as he runs for re-election to a complete six-year time period.

But Warnock has dramatically outraised Walker thus far and holds a mid-single digit edge over his GOP challenger in the newest public opinion surveys, together with a four-point benefit in a up to date Fox News ballot. The showdown is certainly one of a handful of races in battleground states that may resolve if the GOP wins again the bulk within the chamber in November’s midterms.