Herschel Walker, the apparent GOP front-runner in this year’s Senate race in Georgia, has tried to keep a low profile recently for a few obvious reasons.
Namely: His political ideas are incoherent and, on top of that, he’s infamously bad at communicating them. As CNN reported last year, that’s why the former NFL running back’s campaign has tried to keep the gaffe-prone candidate, whom former President Donald Trump endorsed in September, buoyed by conservative support and largely out of the public eye.
As a result, Walker has stuck to short public appearances and quick interviews with conservative-leaning outlets and has shied away from highly anticipated events like a GOP primary debate in Georgia this month, which he skipped. Walker, however, did appear for an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that same weekend.
If Walker’s team thought that would help him evade embarrassment, they were sorely mistaken. He couldn’t even handle a softball question about why people would prefer him over Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent. Instead, Walker delivered a meandering response that was detached from reality and syntax.
"They decided they were gonna give up all the energy. By him going out, giving up all the energy, now we're not energy independent anymore, which started the whole downfall" — Herschel Walker's analysis of energy policy doesn't show a grasp of details or really anything at all pic.twitter.com/WR5GkqS8ma
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 10, 2022
Walker’s claims are hard to follow here, but his rambling response is an attempt to regurgitate debunked Republican talking points arguing that President Joe Biden’s policies have ruined the United States’ ability to rely on our own oil production to run the country.
At another point in the interview, Walker was asked to respond to reports that he had lied about graduating near the top of his class from the University of Georgia. (In reality, he didn’t graduate at all.) Walker tried to do a little rhetorical trickery by volunteering that he graduated high school at the top of his class … which obviously isn’t the issue being debated.
Herschel Walker changes his story about graduating college and claims people are jealous of him, "I did graduate high school as one of the top students in my class…When they're attacking me, that's meaning they're gelling jealous of — jealous of me. pic.twitter.com/ME3J4iaUd4
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 10, 2022
Walker later accused his political opponents are being “jealous” of him. Like other claims he’s made, there’s no evidence this one is actually true. And it becomes less believable with every word he utters.
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Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog.