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Anti-Abortion Republican Senatorial Candidate Herschel Walker Allegedly Urged Mother Of His Child To Get Abortion

<p>Anti-abortion Republican senatorial candidate <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;herschel&plus;walker&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Herschel Walker<&sol;strong><&sol;a> allegedly urged the mother of his child to get an abortion during a separate pregnancy&comma; after the NFL legend initially tried to deny he knew who the woman in question was&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The mother of Walker&&num;8217&semi;s child&comma; who has not yet been named over privacy and safety concerns&comma; revealed that he was in full-support of her getting an abortion when the child from another pregnancy was his&comma; according to a bombshell report by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thedailybeast&period;com&sol;she-had-an-abortion-with-herschel-walker-she-also-had-a-child-with-him&quest;ref&equals;wrap" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>The Daily Beast<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Walker Attempts To Deny Accusations That He Urged Woman Pregnant With His Child To Get Abortion<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>On Wednesday&comma; Walker attempted to categorically deny the story&comma; and said he didn’t know who was making this allegation in an interview Fox News host Brian Kilmeade&comma; who asked Walker whether he had figured out the woman’s identity based on details in the original report&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Not at all&comma;” Walker replied&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And that’s what I hope everyone can see&period; It’s sort of like everyone is anonymous&comma; or everyone is leaking&comma; and they want you to confess to something you have no clue about&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The 60-year-old then tried to spin the report as a politically-motivated attack from &&num;8220&semi;desperate&&num;8221&semi; Democrats&comma; intent on maintaining control of the crucial Georgia Senate seat he&&num;8217&semi;s currently vying for&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1577827464889393152" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added he was &&num;8220&semi;energized&&num;8221&semi; by the report&comma; which portrays him as hypocritical&comma; and remains undeterred in his quest for candidacy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They see me as a big threat&comma; and I know that and I knew it when I got into this race&period; But they don’t realize that I think they came for the wrong one&period; They energized me&comma;” Walker said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They energized me&comma; because I know how they really want to try to keep this seat&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Woman In Question Calls Herschel Walker&&num;8217&semi;s Defense Ridiculous&comma; Was &&num;8220&semi;Stunned&&num;8221&semi; At Response<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The woman in question called Herschel&&num;8217&semi;s defense ridiculous and said she was &&num;8220&semi;stunned&&num;8221&semi; at his response&comma; but also not totally shocked&comma; adding he may have &&num;8220&semi;really forget about it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; but &&num;8220&semi;that says something &lpar;about him&rpar;&comma; too&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sure&comma; I was stunned&comma; but I guess it also doesn’t shock me&comma; that maybe there are just so many of us that he truly doesn’t remember&comma;” she said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But then again&comma; if he really forgot about it&comma; that says something&comma; too&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;99659" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-99659" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-99659" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;GettyImages-1243074042-scaled&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"760" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-99659" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">U&period;S&period; Republican Senate candidate for Georgia&comma; Herschel Walker speaks at a campaign event on September 9&comma; 2022 in Gwinnett&comma; Georgia&period; Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker is running against incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock for November&&num;8217&semi;s election&period; &lpar;Photo by Megan Varner&sol;Getty Images&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The Daily Beast reports that the woman is a registered Democrat who continued a years-long relationship with Walker even after the abortion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She told the outlet that her main concerns with revealing her identity was that she is the mother to one of Walker&&num;8217&semi;s children&comma; and intended on protecting her family&&num;8217&semi;s privacy while at the same time speaking her truth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Walker Publicly Acknowledges Woman Is Mother Of One Of His Children&comma; A Registered Democrat<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Walker has publicly acknowledged that the child is his&comma; and the woman provided enough credible evidence to The Daily Beast to prove she is the child&&num;8217&semi;s mother&comma; according to the outlet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Walker and his campaign reportedly declined to comment on The Daily Beast&&num;8217&semi;s article&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;99660" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-99660" style&equals;"width&colon; 1024px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-99660" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;GettyImages-1243075278&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"683" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-99660" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">U&period;S&period; Republican Senate candidate for Georgia&comma; Herschel Walker speaks to media at a campaign event on September 9&comma; 2022 in Gwinnett&comma; Georgia&period; Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker is running against incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock for November&&num;8217&semi;s election&period;&lpar;Photo by Megan Varner&sol;Getty Images&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>One of Walker&&num;8217&semi;s three sons&comma; conservative social media influencer Christian Walker&comma; has since released a series of videos and statements calling his father a liar&comma; and even claimed the University of Georgia football star and legendary NFL running back had threatened to murder him and his mother &&num;8211&semi; Walker&&num;8217&semi;s ex-wife&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Walker&&num;8217&semi;s Son&comma; A Conservative Social Media Influencer&comma; Calls Out Father For Being A &&num;8220&semi;Liar&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>He said his dad was &&num;8220&semi;not a family man&&num;8221&semi; and had &&num;8220&semi;us move over six times in six months running from your violence&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us&comma;” Christian Walker tweeted after the abortion story broke Monday night&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You’re not a &OpenCurlyQuote;family man’ when you left us to bang a bunch of women&comma; threatened to kill us&comma; and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; the anonymous woman cited in The Daily Beast&&num;8217&semi;s report said she has remained a &&num;8220&semi;good sport&&num;8221&semi; about Herschel&&num;8217&semi;s senatorial campaign&comma; but added she could no longer keep quiet about this issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;99661" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-99661" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-99661" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;GettyImages-1243074428-scaled&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"760" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-99661" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">U&period;S&period; Republican Senate candidate for Georgia&comma; Herschel Walker speaks at a campaign event alongside Former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley<br &sol;>on September 9&comma; 2022 in Gwinnett&comma; Georgia&period; Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker is running against incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock for November&&num;8217&semi;s election&period; &lpar;Photo by Megan Varner&sol;Getty Images&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ve been very civil thus far&period; I keep my mouth shut&period; I don’t cause any trouble&period; I stay in the background&period; But I’m also not gonna get run over time and time again&comma;” she said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s crazy&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Walker&&num;8217&semi;s Senatorial Campaign Offers Conflicting Explanations For Bombshell Report<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Walker and his campaign team have offered conflicting explanations for the damning report&comma; at first calling it a &&num;8220&semi;lie&&num;8221&semi; before appealing to a sense of forgiveness and religious redemption&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Walker put out a new ad on Wednesday where he revealed his struggles with mental health&comma; &&num;8220&semi;by the grace of God&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a June interview with The Daily Beast&comma; Walker lied about his role in abortions&comma; and was caught doing the same again when speaking on video to a Democratic activist posing as one of his supporters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"99657" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;anti-republican-senatorial-candidate-herschel-walker-allegedly-urged-woman-he-impregnated-to-get&sol;" data-secure&equals;"a5508e3f4d"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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