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- Star GOP candidate for Senate in GA Herschel Walker when asked how he explains sending $700 to his girlfriend in 2009 (to pay for her abortion)
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If you, like us, have been getting bogged down by the endless carousel of Trump and Russia news, boy do we have a treat for you!
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On Monday night we learned that virulently anti-abortion Georgia GOP Senate candiate Herschel Walker reportedly urged his then-girlfriend to have an abortion in 2009 and paid for it himself. That story, which first broke in the Daily Beast and included receipts for the $700 payment Walker sent to the woman along with a “Get Well” card, would have been enough for most Republican campaigns to endure. Even right-wing media hack Erick Erickson said it alone is “probably a KO” for his chances this November. But it somehow still gets messier and weirder from there.
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For his part, Walker immediately went on Fox News to condemn the report as a “flat-out lie” and pledged to file a defamation lawsuit against the Daily Beast, which stands by the story, and again, has the receipts to prove it! You know who’s not buying Walker’s lies? His son Christian—not one of the formerly-secret ones— who is himself a conservative social media influencer (and regularly uses his platform to rail against absentee fatherism rather than campaign for his father, go figure!) Christian said Herschel was “making a mockery” out of his family and said “Don’t lie [about] the lives you’ve destroyed and act like you’re some sort of moral family man. Y’all should care about that, conservatives!” Christian also made additional videos lambasting his father for never being there for his children, all of whom have different mothers, and leaving each subsequent mother of his child to go “out having sex with other women” all while portraying himself as a man of “family values.”
- All of this could naturally help the campaign of incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) who thus far has refused to engage in negative campaigning against Walker, even though there were so many obvious over-the-plate things to say about him! We get it, senator, you’re a man of God, but that doesn’t mean you can’t accurately describe the heinous words and deeds of your opponent! The good news for Warnock here is that he gets to have his cake and eat it, too, because the story is so explosive, he doesn’t even have to comment on it.
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Republicans, for their part, are in various stages of denial about the whole thing.
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Warnock and Walker were neck-and-neck before this scandal broke, even with Walker’s known history of domestic violence and baffling, nonsensical statements on the campaign trail. That’s probably why the national GOP was so quick to rally behind Walker (who, again, financed an abortion, but wants to make abortion a crime for everyone else). Both disgraced former president Donald Trump and Georgia’s famously horny prodigal son Newt Gingrich vouched for Walker’s family values (lol) and the president of the Republican Senate Leadership fund responded to the scandal simply by saying “Full speed ahead in Georgia.”
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Walker has already misrepresented or lied outright about various key elements of his life story on the campaign trail. He has said he worked in law enforcement (he didn’t) and that his food-distribution company donated a portion of its earnings to charity (nope). Ralph Reed, a prominent social conservative leader in Georgia, said he is “100 percent” certain that evangelical Christians will stick with Walker, and after they pushed Donald Trump over the edge to victory in 2016, his confidence is probably warranted! There’s even a strong possibility that staunchly pro-life Evangelicals will turn out in greater numbers than they would have previously, rallying to defend their terrible candidate.
As we stare down the barrel of yet another election where mind-bogglingly terrible Republican candidates still somehow stand a real chance of eking out victories, it’s more important than ever for Dems to redouble efforts on the ground. Perhaps they can start by letting everyone in the country know that the party on a crusade to criminalize abortion nationwide was simultaneously trying to bury a story about abortion in their ranks, and then rallied behind Walker when the news broke anyhow.
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Back in June, polio partially paralyzed an unvaccinated young man in the hamlet of Monsey, NY. As of August, only 37 percent of two-year-olds were up to date on their polio vaccines. The numbers are even lower along the Pennsylvania border in Steuben County. And in Cattaragus County, NY, just nine percent of children are up to date. Vaccinations are required by New York State law to enroll in public or private schools, so most children are caught up by the time they reach kindergarten, but 60 schools in the state did not submit any vaccination data this year, including some rural schools that serve Amish students. The idea of polio becoming endemic in the United States again, which was once unthinkable, has become a terrifyingly real threat. The shockingly low vaccination rates among young people in various regions of New York has led public-health officials to embark on an urgent campaign to get more people vaccinated. If vaccination rates do not increase, experts fear that polio could continue to circulate in the state and beyond among a demographic of vulnerable people, and leave some of them paralyzed, almost a half-century after the disease was eradicated in the United States. But yes, keep “doing your own research!” It’s clearly working out great!
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Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made his first public comments about the protests sweeping the country after state morality police killed Mashsa Amini for violating the country’s strict dress code for women. He claimed the “riots” had been “engineered” by Iran’s enemies like the United States and Israel.
A Michigan township official who has continuously promoted the Big Lie could face criminal charges related to two voting-system security breaches.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss continued her economic conservatism magical mystery tour today by suggesting that she may limit increases in welfare-benefit payments by less than inflation demands as she seeks a way to fund her abhorrent tax cuts for the wealthy. Girl boss!
The hits just keep on coming for ole’ Liz as massive train strikes are expected to disrupt the lives of millions of people in the United Kingdom this week.
A new Cook Political report shows that somehow, GOP Pennsylvania Senate nominee Dr. Oz’s attacks on his opponent, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D-PA), have been working, and the race is back to a toss up.
According to new disclosures, disgraced former president Donald Trump asked one of his lawyers to tell the National Archives and Records administration back in February that he had returned all materials requested by the agency. So, you know, a lie.
In more Trump news, today he asked the Supreme Court to partially reverse an appellate-court decision that allowed the Justice Department to regain access to about 100 classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
Trump’s former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified as a government witness yesterday at the trial of a Trump ally accused of leaking intelligence to the UAE. “Were you a member of the Trump White House between the years of 2017-2021? You may be entitled to expensive legal bills and lots of perjury risk.”
In a newly-released poll, more than half of Americans believe it’s unlikely that younger people today will have better lives than their parents. What could possibly give people that idea, besides, I don’t know, everything?
California gas prices have reached an all-time high this week, after several oil refineries in California shut down.
Often hailed as the Queen of Country Music, singer, songwriter, and author of the bestselling 1976 memoir Coal Miner’s Daughter, Loretta Lynn died today at 90 years old. President Barack Obama awarded Lynn the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
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The Supreme Court began the second day of its new term hearing arguments in a case that could gut what’s left of the Voting Rights Act. In Merrill v. Milligan, the state of Alabama has appealed a ruling by a panel of three federal judges that its new House districts unlawfully diluted the power of Black voters—an unlawful racial gerrymandering strategy called “spreading.” Of course, this being the stolen 6-3 Supreme Court from hell, it looks as though the right-wing justices are leaning towards finding in favor Alabama anyhow. The Court’s three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, vigorously questioned Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour, who claimed his state’s map was “race-neutral.” Lol. LaCour even went so far as to argue that truly upholding the Voting Rights Act may violate the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection clause by “enhancing” the power of minority voters. Again, lol. Jackson, on her second day of arguments, went to the mat, emphasizing the historical meaning and intent of the 14th Amendment, which was not “race-neutral or race-blind,” but plainly meant to protect the rights of newly-freed former slaves. Hold on, let me sit down from giving this standing ovation. The case is not yet decided, but like virtually all of the other decisions on SCOTUS’s docket this year, if it breaks along party lines, enshrined protections marginalized people depend on for their legal equality will once again be stripped away.
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