The flurry of tweets came after the Daily Beast reported that Walker paid for a woman to get an abortion.
U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker’s campaign was in turmoil Monday after his adult son accused his father of threatening to kill his family members, an accusation that came after a news outlet reported the Republican paid his then-girlfriend in 2009 to have an abortion despite his opposition to the procedure.as a “flat-out lie” and pledged to sue the publication.
The developments threaten to upend the race between Walker and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat who is running for a full six-year term after winning a special election in a 2021 runoff. Walker’s campaign didn’t immediately comment on his son’s remarks, but blasted the Daily Beast’s report. Since entering the race, Walker has backed a ““I’m not taking this anymore,” Walker said in a tweet, adding that he’s “planning to sue the Daily Beast for this defamatory lie. It will be filed tomorrow morning.”
In a statement late Monday after Walker threatened a lawsuit, the Daily Beast said: “We stand by the story 100 percent.” Asked about the report following the campaign event, Warnock told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution he was focused on his policy stance.
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