(C) Daily Kos
This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered.
. . . . . . . . . .



G.O.P. Group Targets Herschel Walker With Ad on Domestic Abuse Accusations [1]

['Maya King']

Date: 2022-08-08

ATLANTA — In his campaign for the Senate, Herschel Walker has not hidden his past struggles with mental illness and violence in past relationships, aspects of his background that he outlined in a 2009 memoir and that his campaign sought to address in its earliest days.

Now, a group of anti-Trump Republicans is hammering him over one of those episodes.

In a new advertisement running on major networks in the Atlanta media market, footage of Mr. Walker scoring a touchdown for the University of Georgia is juxtaposed with close-up video of his ex-wife, Cindy Grossman, describing how he once held a gun to her temple and threatened to pull the trigger.

“Do you think you know Herschel Walker?” a narrator asks. “Well, think again.”

Mr. Walker has not denied Ms. Grossman’s accusations, saying his violence against her was a consequence of his struggles with mental health. His campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

[END]
---
[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/us/politics/herschel-walker-ex-wife-ad.html

Published and (C) by Daily Kos
Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified.

via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/

You are viewing proxied material from magical.fish. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.