Politico: “Former football standout Herschel Walker has officially filed to run for Senate in Georgia, adding a dose of star power to the Republican bench in one of the nation’s premier midterm races.
Walker, who plans to announce his candidacy Wednesday, enters a multi-candidate GOP primary for the right to take on Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock with two crucial advantages the others can’t match: high poll numbers and the full-throated endorsement of former President Donald Trump, who repeatedly urged him to run.
“He would be unstoppable, just like he was when he played for the Georgia Bulldogs, and in the NFL,” Trump said in a written statement earlier this year about Walker. “He is also a GREAT person. Run Herschel, run!”https://1a1e33de002938d24fc5ea618158c8a1.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
With endorsements like that and a famed football career behind him, Walker instantly becomes the highest-profile Republican seeking to unseat Warnock, who became the first African American from Georgia to serve in the Senate when he won a special election in January. If Walker clears the primary, it would set up a rare matchup between two Black major-party candidates.”