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October 14, 2022
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WALKER….WHAT?: Walker’s Laundry List of “Head-Scratching Comments” and Policy Gaffes
Savannah, GA — As Herschel Walker fumbles yet another policy question on the debate stage, Georgians will note that it’s the latest on the list of bad policies and even worse explanations offered by the GOP Senate candidate. Walker’s inability to defend his own policy positions is showing Georgians yet again that he’s not ready to represent them.
A refresher on Walker’s “head-scratching comments” and embarrassing policy gaffes:
- Walker faced a wave of criticism after claiming that the federal climate change, health care, and deficit-reduction bill that passed last month doesn’t help Americans because “a lot of money, it’s going to trees” and “we have enough trees.“
- Herschel Walker doesn’t want to answer for his nonsensical comments on climate policy, which he described as “our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air.”
- When recently asked to clarify “what policies he’d pursue to combat the wider inflation he blames on Warnock,” Walker “didn’t answer” and instead “veered into a soliloquy on border patrols.” And after attacking Warnock’s support for the Inflation Reduction Act without “reading the bill,” Walker admitted he’d read only “some of the bill” himself.
- Asked about policy solutions to gun violence, Herschel Walker said “what I like to do is see it and everything and stuff.” Two days later, Walker proposed “a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that’s looking at social media.” Meanwhile, Walker has attacked Reverend Warnock for supporting common sense gun laws, including a piece of legislation that would expand background checks for firearm transfers between individuals without a gun license.
- Herschel Walker said it’s “totally unfair” to ask him if he supports the bipartisan infrastructure bill that the Senate passed last year. “I have to see all the facts.”
- Herschel Walker has expressed skepticism of evolution, claiming the existence of apes disproves the scientific theory of evolution.
- Walker tried to claim that the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, named in honor of Lewis’ life’s work to secure voting rights, “just doesn’t fit what John Lewis stood for.”
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