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Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s marketing campaign has raised greater than $500,000 since his Monday look on Fox’s Hannity, a Walker supply aware of the matter informed NBC Information on Wednesday. That look got here after the Day by day Beast broke the story that he paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009.
Walker, who’s operating neck-and-neck within the Georgia Senate race in opposition to Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., has denied the report, and nationwide Republicans have since rallied round him.
Even nationwide anti-abortion teams just like the Susan B. Anthony Record are sticking with Walker and standing by their endorsement of him. In an announcement yesterday, the group stated, “Herschel Walker desires to guard unborn youngsters whereas Raphael Warnock desires to see them die by limitless abortion.”
NBC Information has not but verified the allegations in opposition to Walker or reviewed the paperwork that The Day by day Beast cites.
The $500,000 Walker raised in the previous few days is notable, however he nonetheless trails Warnock in fundraising general.
In keeping with the FEC, Warnock has raised virtually $85 million this cycle, whereas Walker has raised simply over $20 million in the identical period of time.
Within the third quarter of this yr alone, Warnock raised $26 million, in response to the Atlanta Journal-Structure. In the identical interval, Walker raised $12 million, in response to a launch from his marketing campaign.
Within the wake of the Day by day Beast story, Walker additionally launched a new ad the place he says, “As everybody is aware of, I had an actual battle with psychological well being — even wrote a e book about it. By the grace of God, I’ve overcome it.”
