The gloves are off in Georgia’s Senate race.
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock broke his relative silence on allegations that Republican rival Herschel Walker paid a former girlfriend to have an abortion in a pair of scathing television ads that call out the football legend over his alleged hypocrisy on the topic as well as claims of domestic abuse.
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One ad, released Thursday, features snippets from multiple media outlets covering the Daily Beast bombshell that claimed Walker paid a woman to end her pregnancy.
Titled “Hypocrite,” the 30-second ad starts off with an announcer saying, “For you, Herschel Walker wants to ban abortion,” and then cuts to comments Walker made claiming he supports a national abortion ban. The narrator then says, “But for himself?” and the commercial continues with clips from media outlets saying the woman provided a receipt from the abortion clinic. It even brings up comments Walker’s son, Christian, made calling his father a liar.
The ad ends with Walker admitting to an NBC reporter that the signature on the check he wrote to the woman is really his.
The second commercial, called “Another Lie,” zeroes in on claims Walker threatened to kill his ex-wife Cindy Grossman.
Walker has admitted in the past that he has had a troubled relationship, though he denies physically going after Grossman. After a soundbite of Walker telling a reporter he has been “very open” in his book and that “anyone else outside of my book is lying to you,” the announcer says, “Another lie. Here’s Walker’s book, and he didn’t write a word about his violence towards women. Nothing about threatening to kill his wife.”
The pair of ads represents a shift in tactics for Warnock, who has refrained from attacking Walker personally in any paid commercials.
The candidates faced off last Friday in Savannah for their first and only face-to-face debate.
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The winner of Georgia’s Senate race could determine which party controls the upper chamber of Congress next year.
