Herschel Walker talks vampires and werewolves in unusual Georgia Senate runoff campaign speech
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Herschel, vampires and werewolves, oh my!
Republican Herschel Walker talked about horror movie creatures in a rambling, off-the-rails rant as he campaigned ahead of the Georgia Senate runoff on Dec. 6 against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.
In a speech, Walker called vampires “cool people,” but said he prefers werewolves as he went off-script, during a campaign speech in rural McDonough, Georgia.
“Vampires are cool people, are they not? But I want to tell you something that I found out. A werewolf can kill a vampire, did you know that? I didn’t know that,” Walker told the crowd of supporters. “So, I don’t want to be a vampire anymore, I wanted to be a werewolf.”
Walker even compared the mythical bloodsucker in the flick to his opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.)
“(He was) looking real good in his black suit. Whoa, that sounds like Senator Warnock, doesn’t it?” Walker said.
Walker is battling Warnock after neither candidate won 50% of the vote in the general election on Nov. 8.
Democrats have already wrapped up control of the Senate with 50 seats, since Vice President Kamala Harris can cast a tie-breaking vote but they want an extra vote to allow them to run the chamber more smoothly and to give themselves an insurance policy in case of disagreements with individual senators, notably Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.)
Walker, a former college and professional football star and a close friend of Trump’s, was urged by the former president to run. That cements Walker’s bond with core GOP supporters but presents a challenge in Republican-leaning metro areas that helped Biden top Trump here two years ago.
“Trump probably does more to juice Democratic turnout than have an effect on our guy,” said Josh Holmes, a prominent Republican fundraiser and strategist aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has icy relations with the former president. But Holmes added, “We don’t know what the impact will be.”
