We had a caller to our Politically Georgia podcast recently, Fran from New Jersey, who was confounded by the possibility that Herschel Walker is in a close race against Raphael Warnock for U.S. Senate.
“Honestly, from completely neutral territory, is this candidate really serious?” she asked. ” It just blows our minds up here.”
I thought about Fran from New Jersey Wednesday night when I was in Kennesaw, along with about 500 other people. So many had turned out for a “Women for Herschel” event that the fire marshal eventually cut off attendance.
There, at an indoor gun range, with Shania Twain on the loudspeakers and barbecue on the buffet, hundreds of well-heeled conservative women crowded in for what felt like a Baptist revival crossed with a Junior League lunch.
The real draw, of course, was Walker, who has been a household name in Georgia since 1980, when he leapt over piles of players to score touchdowns and eventually deliver a national championship to the University of Georgia.