Ga. Senate Candidate Herschel Walker Slips in Polls Following Latest Bombshell Allegations

Mar. 15, 2025

Herschel Walker.Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty

Georgia Senate candidateHerschel Walkerhas suffered a blow in the polls this week following a one-two punch of controversy that could stand in the way of unseating incumbent Sen.Raphael Warnock.

On Monday The Daily Beast alleged that Walker, who is outspokenly anti-choice, paid for a woman to abort his child back in 2009 — a claim hevehemently denies. On its own, it’s an allegation he could probably overcome, much likeother scandals that have routinely popped upthroughout his campaign and quickly faded out of voters' memory. But what really called his candidacy into question was how his own son, a popular right-wing social media personality, reacted.

Christian Walker, 23, aligns with his father on most political issues. The two are pro-MAGA, anti-“woke” and prominent contributors to the far-right culture wars. Since the day that Walker tossed his hat into the ring for the Georgia battleground race, Christian had appeared to support him, excitedly endorsing the campaign in a podcast episode on the day his candidacy was declared.

Christian Walker.Christian Walker/Instagram

But on Monday night, Christian’s public attitude toward his father changed in aseries of tweetssuggesting Walker should not be trusted.

“I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us,” Christian wrote onTwitterMonday night. (Christian’s mother isCindy DeAngelis Grossman, who is no longer married to Walker.)

He continued the tirade against Walker, claiming, “You’re not a ‘family man’ when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence.”

In a follow-up tweet, Christian wrote: “I don’t care about someone who has a bad past and takes accountability. But how DARE YOU LIE and act as though you’re some ‘moral, Christian, upright man.’ You’ve lived a life of DESTROYING other peoples lives. How dare you.”

Christian posted two videos online Tuesday morning that elaborated on some of the frustrations he laid out, accusing Walker of being an absentee father toall his childrenand downplaying “atrocities” committed against his ex-wife (during their marriage, Grossmanclaimed that Walker held a gun to her headwhile they were married, which he chalked up to his dissociative identity disorder; court records show she obtained a protective order against him three years after their divorce).

Even in the face of scandal, Walker has chugged along in his campaign. Prior to this week he was sitting at an average of only 2.1 points behind Warnock in polls,according to election tracking site FiveThirtyEight.

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Then fresh polls dropped on Wednesday, which surveyed likely voters during the timeframe that Walker’s campaign began imploding.

source: people.com