Herschel Walker leads Warnock in Georgia Senate race: poll

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1. Herschel Walker, the Worst Candidate, Trump-Approved

Let’s just be blunt. No one, and I mean not one person, would seriously believe that Herschel Walker, the former football star and current leading contender for the Republican Senate nomination in Georgia, was at the top of his class at the University of Georgia.

Yet Walker has claimed just that for years, saying multiple times that he graduated in the top 1 percent of his class. Walker never graduated from college. He left to play professional football. Furthermore, according to CNN: “A profile of Walker from 1982 in The Christian-Science Monitor and an article in The New York Times said he maintained a B average at the school. Walker himself told The Chicago Tribune in 1985 he maintained a 3.0 before his grades dropped.”

But wait, that wasn’t the only problematic boast Walker made about his grades. Walker wrote: “If I’m proud of anything I did in my high school career (I mwas) Beta Club president and class valedictorian.” CNN’s KFile reviewed Walker’s high school yearbooks and coverage of him in local newspapers at the time and could find no evidence to support the claim that he was a high school valedictorian.

He has also been accused by his ex-wife of making multiple threats against her life. In 2005 she secured an order of protection against him. As The Associated Press reported: “When his book was released, she told ABC News that at one point during their marriage, her husband pointed a pistol at her head and said, ‘I’m going to blow your f’ing brains out.’ She filed for divorce in 2001, citing ‘physically abusive and extremely threatening behavior.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/opinion/herschel-walker-georgia.html