Herschel Walker is approaching a possible Senate bid seriously and taking a stronger look at mounting a 2022 campaign than Republican insiders in Georgia have been led to believe, people close to the protégé of former President Donald Trump are telling the Washington Examiner.
Walker, a Texas resident, has been fastidiously tight-lipped about his plans and established no political foothold in the Peach State since Trump declared the former University of Georgia football star his preferred candidate to challenge Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. But Walker, a political neophyte, is quietly talking to top advisers and attorneys in Georgia about the proper way to go about entering a contest expected to attract hundreds of millions of dollars from both parties.
