During their sole debate, Democratic senator Raphael Warnock brought up Herschel Walker’s lies about a law-enforcement background and Walker brandished an honorary badge. Now the Republican is making the fake badge part of an anti-crime message.
We have been reliably informed by Herschel Walker that he is not a brilliant man (“I’m not that smart,” he said recently). Perhaps he learned some jiujitsu principles in his brief career as a mixed-martial-arts fighter in his late 40s. However it happened, Walker has managed to turn an attack line by his opponent Senator Raphael Warnock into an aggressive messaging device of his own in the home stretch of their close and bitterly fought contest in Georgia.
In their sole debate on October 14, Warnock brought up one of the many false claims Walker had made about his past before moving back to Georgia to run for office, as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution explains:
All hell broke loose as a debate moderator repeatedly reproached Walker for breaking an agreed-upon rule banning the use of props, while Walker insisted it wasn’t a prop but a real honorary badge (apparently not understanding that prop could mean absolutely any visual aid — real or fake).
