Warnock Leads Walker, Georgia Senate Race Unchanged by Abortion Payment Allegation: POLL
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The allegation that pro-life Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker paid for a former girlfriend’s abortion does not appear to have impacted the race, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
The poll, which was conducted several days after the Daily Beast broke the news of the alleged abortion payment, found Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock leading Walker 52 percent to 45 percent among likely voters in Georgia. The results are nearly identical to polling Quinnipiac conducted last month where Warnock led Walker 52 percent to 46 percent.
The new Quinnipiac poll was conducted among 1,157 likely Georgia voters between last Friday and Monday. It has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 2.9 percentage points.
A woman, who was later reported to be the mother of one of Walker’s children, said last week that Walker paid her to abort a child they’d conceived in 2009. The woman, who has not been named publicly, said Walker again pushed her to get an abortion in 2011 when she became pregnant. She refused and the pair broke up soon after, the New York Times reported.
For his part, Walker has denied the allegation, calling it a “flat-out lie.”
Walker’s son, Christian Walker, responded to the allegations on social media, accusing his father of abandoning his family during childhood and calling him a hypocrite for claiming to have pro-life views. The younger Walker said he is “done with the lies.”
The Quinnipiac poll found the majority of voters, 55 percent, have an unfavorable view of Walker, while 39 percent have a favorable view. Fifty-percent had a favorable view of Warnock, while 44 percent had an unfavorable view.
Fifty-seven percent of likely voters said they do not believe Walker is honest and 58 percent said he does not have good leadership skills.
“Despite repeated penalty flags flying at his honesty and integrity, Herschel Walker is down by seven in the 4th quarter and still has a shot against incumbent Raphael Warnock in Georgia’s Senate race,” Quinnipiac polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement.
Warnock’s campaign has not been without controversy either. The Washington Free Beacon reported this week that the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock serves as pastor, threatened to evict low-income tenants from a building it owned during the pandemic for failing to pay small amounts of overdue rent.
A RealClearPolitics polling average has Warnock up by 3.3 percentage points.
