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October 14, 2022 

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REMINDER: Walker Has Repeated Bizarre Lies About 2020 Election, Spread Dangerous Conspiracy Theories in Leadup to January 6th Insurrection

Savannah, GA — As a reminder, GOP Senate candidate has elevated a series of outright lies about the 2020 election and spread the same dangerous conspiracy theories that stoked the rioters on Capitol insurrection — even calling for Trump and his allies to conduct a “total cleansing” two days before the January 6 insurrection.

Walker has also refused to say whether or not President Biden was lawfully elected, saying “I don’t know whether he was,” and that “there were problems with the results” of the election. And in May, in one of his most blatant lies to date, Walker even denied Trump had ever said the election was stolen. He’s just not ready to represent the people of Georgia in the U.S. Senate.

Newsweek: Herschel Walker Denies Trump Ever Said Election Was ‘Stolen’

• GOP candidate Herschel Walker, currently running to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate, denied that former President Donald Trump has ever claimed the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

• Following Trump’s defeat, he and his allies repeatedly claimed the election was stolen due to widespread voter fraud in key battleground states, despite any evidence to back up this theory. The issue has become a test of loyalty to the former president within the GOP, and the candidates he has endorsed have largely parroted these claims.

• But Walker, who received Trump’s endorsement for his Senate campaign, said he has never heard Trump claim the election was stolen during an interview with Atlanta-based news station WAGA-TV this week.

• News anchor Russ Spencer confronted Walker about the claims during a testy exchange, noting the importance of a candidate’s embrace of the claims to receive the former president’s endorsement, asking Walker if he believes the election was stolen.

• “I think reporters said that. I don’t know whether President Trump said that. He’s never said that to me,” Walker responded, prompting Spencer to point out that Trump has “said it over and over. Please.”

• Walker hit back: “I’m not saying the president—but everyone knows that something happened in the election.”

CNN: Fact check: Georgia candidate Herschel Walker is a serial promoter of false 2020 conspiracy theories

• In a tweet on January 4, two days before Congress met to count the 2020 electoral votes, Walker falsely alleged that there was “Country wide election fraud.“

• Walker called for Trump and “TRUE PATRIOTS” to conduct a “total cleansing” two days before the Jan. 6 insurrection.

• On the afternoon of January 6, Walker tweeted a false suggestion that the Capitol riot was orchestrated by people who wanted to stop the discussion about election fraud.

• In another tweet on January 6, Walker posted a Capitol photo that featured rioters including distinctively dressed “QAnon shaman” Jacob Chansley. Walker falsely suggested that these people weren’t actually Trump supporters — calling them “Trojan horses” and saying “they do not look like MAGA.”

• As the insurrection turned deadly, Walker claimed that “you have the power…to get to the bottom of who stole this election!”

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