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Donald Trump picks ex-NFL star Herschel Walker to be Bahamas ambassador

Former NFL star Herschel Walker, 62, will be the new ambassador to the Bahamas. This announcement has created ripples in diplomatic circles and shocked many, thanks to Walker’s controversial anti-abortion stand and alleged aggression in his personal life. Here’s all you should know about Herschel Walker: Walker co-chaired Trump’s Council on Health, Nutrition, and Fitness Council during his first administration. …

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1 week ago

Trump chooses Herschel Walker as US ambassador to Bahamas

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Herschel Walker, the football legend who unsuccessfully ran for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be ambassador to the Bahamas. He described Walker as “a successful businessman, philanthropist, former Heisman Trophy winner.” Walker, a Republican, tried to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock two years ago with Trump’s endorsement. Trump also …

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Trump chooses Herschel Walker as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas

LA Times

Former football player and Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Macon, Ga., on Nov. 3. Herschel Walker, the football legend who unsuccessfully ran for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be ambassador to the Bahamas. He described Walker as “a successful businessman, philanthropist, former Heisman …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

'Funniest thing I’ve seen': Herschel Walker tells Georgia to vote for wrong guy

Raw Story

Herschel Walker had a unique message for Republican voters two days before Election Day: don't vote for your nominee. Walker, a former National Football League star running back, delivered at a Georgia campaign rally Sunday what was almost an endorsement of former President Donald Trump — but not quite. "It stops on Tuesday," Walker said, "when we vote for my …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Georgia Saved Democrats 4 Years Ago. Now They Need A Repeat.

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING RIVERDALE, Ga. — When union canvasser Tracey Thornhill walked up to a one-story home on a bright, cloudless day here in a working-class city of 15,000 people south of Atlanta, he found a receptive ear to his pitch about making sure to vote for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the November election. “Trump made a lot …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

A Georgia Democrat seeks to unseat an indicted Trump elector who says he only did what he was told

Associated Press

DULUTH, Ga. — A young Georgia Democrat is raising big money from voters across the country by labeling a suburban Atlanta senate race as a chance to unseat a Republican election denier. Although incumbent Shawn Still was one of 18 people indicted alongside Donald Trump in Georgia’s Fulton County in 2023, Still says first-time candidate Ashwin Ramaswami is wrong to …

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4 months ago

Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: What has August 25 ever given us?

The Hindu

A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster enjoys trivia and music and is working on a rock ballad called ‘Coffee is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’. YES NO Answer : Galilei Galilei SHOW ANSWER 3 / 10 | The New York Sun started a series of six articles, which followed the work of explorer John Herschel on August 25, …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: It’s hard sharing a party with Trump or Vance. They taint the right’s good ideas

LA Times

Vance and former President Trump are so unpopular that even the best policy proposals wither from association with them. The stolen election lie is a symptom of this delusion: “Trump couldn’t have lost; the election must have been rigged.” This makes the Greenland effect particularly insidious because conservative ideas, once associated with Trump, often become hard to sell for even …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Male Herschel Walker aide DROPS sexual harassment suit against top conservative Matt Schlapp after claiming he 'aggressively fondled his crotch' after a trip to a bar

Daily Mail

The Republican operative who accused high-profile conservative leader Matt Schlapp of sexual assault has dropped his lawsuits against him and his wife. 'I am discontinuing all of my lawsuits,' said Carlton Huffman, 40, who had accused the head of the American Conservative Union of groping him in 2022 when he was working for Herschel Walker's Senate campaign. 'Our family was …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Retired Americans PAC recovers money from $150K fraudulent bill scam

Raw Story

As congressional candidates and political groups continue to be targeted by fraudsters, at least one of the recent victims has recovered six-figures worth of lost funds. The Retired Americans PAC, a super PAC that supports Democrats, recouped more than $150,000 it lost in late 2022 after paying fraudulent bills sent to the committee, according to an April 21 letter to …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Sen. Lindsey Graham Admonished By Senate Ethics Committee

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday for soliciting campaign contributions for a fellow GOP candidate while at the U.S. Capitol. Sen. Chris Coons, chair of the ethics committee, and Sen. James Lankford, the vice chair, wrote a letter to Graham on Thursday saying an investigation found their colleague had “directly solicited” campaign contributions …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Senate Ethics Committee admonishes Lindsey Graham over campaign solicitations

LA Times

The Senate Ethics Committee is admonishing Sen. Lindsey Graham for soliciting campaign contributions inside a federal building after a Fox News interview in November in which he asked viewers to donate to a GOP candidate. “The public must feel confident that Members use public resources only for official actions in the best interests of the United States, not for partisan …

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1 year, 9 months ago

'Travesty': Conservative likens Trump to a spy 'scheming to destroy the party from within'

Raw Story

Right-wing pundit Rich Lowry is not impressed with former President Donald Trump's efforts to brand anyone who doesn't slavishly carry out his bidding as a "RINO," or "Republican in name only." However, Lowry notes that Trump's obsession with enforcing total loyalty to 2020 election falsehoods has significantly damaged the party, as Trump-backed election denying candidates including Kari Lake, Doug Mastriano, …

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1 year, 11 months ago

CPAC's Matt Schlapp posts statement saying he's in 'unbearable pain' over sexual assault allegations

Raw Story

CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp on Tuesday finally responded to sexual assault allegations leveled against him by a former staffer for Herschel Walker's failed Senate bid. A statement written by Schlapp's attorney Charlie Spies and posted on Schlapp's Twitter account claims that the CPAC chief and his family are "suffering unbearable pain and stress due to the false allegation from an …

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1 year, 11 months ago

GOP strategist files sexual battery lawsuit against Matt Schlapp

CNN

CNN — The Republican campaign staffer who has accused Matt Schlapp, a high-profile conservative activist, of sexual assault is now suing Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes, for more than $9 million. Doe suffered damages, including and without limitation embarrassment, humiliation, stress, and reputational harm.” An attorney for the Schlapps denied the allegations in a Tuesday statement, saying the complaint was …

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1 year, 11 months ago

CPAC chair Matt Schlapp 'grabbed my junk': former Herschel Walker staffer

Raw Story

A former staffer for failed Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker's campaign has accused CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp of making "sustained and unwanted and unsolicited" sexual contact with him. The unnamed staffer tells The Daily Beast that Schlapp repeatedly "groped" and "fondled" his crotch while he was driving Schlapp back from an Atlanta bar. “This appears to be now the twelfth …

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2 years ago

Trump Apologists Have Found Scapegoat For Midterms Fail: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — After watching Donald Trump lead the Republican Party to a third straight bad election season, his followers appear to be coalescing around a consensus: It’s all Ronna McDaniel’s fault. “The GOP needs more Lee Zeldin, Harmeet Dhillon, Thomas Massie, Mike Johnson, Jim Jordan, and less corrupt McLeadership,” wrote former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, whose …

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2 years ago

Republicans Begin To Point Finger At Trump After Disappointing Georgia Election

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Some Republicans attributed their party’s losses in the 2022 midterm elections, including most recently in Georgia’s Senate runoff election, to former President Donald Trump and his baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. On Tuesday, Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated former football star Herschel Walker in Georgia’s runoff Senate election, handing Democrats a 51-seat majority …

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2 years ago

Herschel Walker’s exes celebrate loss by ‘manipulative idiot’ in Georgia runoff

Raw Story

Herschel Walker's former partners expressed relief at his loss to Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia's runoff election for U.S. Senate. “Finally, this violent liar, cheater, adulterer, abuser and deranged, manipulative idiot has been defeated,” said one woman, who had a two-year affair with Walker in the 1990s and then a decade later. “As a victim of this disgusting liar, I …

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2 years ago

'Never should have run': Georgia Republicans trash Herschel Walker's 'train wreck' Senate run

Raw Story

Now that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker has gone down to defeat in a Georgia run-off, GOP insiders in the state and some of his campaign staffers are admitting his run was a disaster. “Georgia is a red state when we pick the best candidate rather than the rich one or the celebrity,” GOP campaign advisor Dan McLagan said. …

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2 years ago

Laura Ingraham Responds To Herschel Walker Loss In Least Impartial Way

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Fox News host Laura Ingraham failed to hide her frustration as she covered the defeat of Donald Trump-backed GOP candidate Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff election on Tuesday night. “I’m pissed tonight, frankly,” said Ingraham, a longtime Trump booster who has recently appeared to sour slightly on the former president. Ingraham earlier accused Senate Republicans …

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2 years ago

Georgia Picks Raphael Warnock, Hands Majority to Democrats in US Senate

News 18

Democratic Party Georgia Senate contender Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Herschel Walker in the runoff vote on Wednesday. Georgia sent Warnock to the upper chamber of the US Congress for a full term and handed Democrats a majority in the Senate. The senior pastor from the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta defeated the former American football player Walker, who was also …

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2 years ago

Why AP called the Georgia Senate runoff for Warnock

Associated Press

There weren’t enough uncounted votes in Republican-leaning areas for GOP challenger Herschel Walker to make up his runoff election night gap with incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. Voting in the runoff began just weeks after the Nov. 8 general election, when neither Warnock and Walker was able to win more than 50% of votes cast. Twin runoff elections in Georgia …

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2 years ago

Democrat Raphael Warnock wins Georgia run-off US Senate election

Al Jazeera

Incumbent senator beats Trump pick Herschel Walker in crucial run-off election in the southern US state of Georgia. Democratic US Senator Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia run-off election, solidifying his party’s control of the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden’s term. You have put in the hard work, and here we are …

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Donald Trump picks ex-NFL star Herschel Walker to be Bahamas ambassador

Trump chooses Herschel Walker as US ambassador to Bahamas

Trump chooses Herschel Walker as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas

'Funniest thing I’ve seen': Herschel Walker tells Georgia to vote for wrong guy

Georgia Saved Democrats 4 Years Ago. Now They Need A Repeat.

A Georgia Democrat seeks to unseat an indicted Trump elector who says he only did what he was told

Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: What has August 25 ever given us?

Column: It’s hard sharing a party with Trump or Vance. They taint the right’s good ideas

Male Herschel Walker aide DROPS sexual harassment suit against top conservative Matt Schlapp after claiming he 'aggressively fondled his crotch' after a trip to a bar

Retired Americans PAC recovers money from $150K fraudulent bill scam

Sen. Lindsey Graham Admonished By Senate Ethics Committee

Senate Ethics Committee admonishes Lindsey Graham over campaign solicitations

'Travesty': Conservative likens Trump to a spy 'scheming to destroy the party from within'

CPAC's Matt Schlapp posts statement saying he's in 'unbearable pain' over sexual assault allegations

GOP strategist files sexual battery lawsuit against Matt Schlapp

CPAC chair Matt Schlapp 'grabbed my junk': former Herschel Walker staffer

Trump Apologists Have Found Scapegoat For Midterms Fail: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel

Republicans Begin To Point Finger At Trump After Disappointing Georgia Election

Herschel Walker’s exes celebrate loss by ‘manipulative idiot’ in Georgia runoff

'Never should have run': Georgia Republicans trash Herschel Walker's 'train wreck' Senate run

Laura Ingraham Responds To Herschel Walker Loss In Least Impartial Way

Georgia Picks Raphael Warnock, Hands Majority to Democrats in US Senate

Why AP called the Georgia Senate runoff for Warnock

Democrat Raphael Warnock wins Georgia run-off US Senate election