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Opinion: The Devil went down to Georgia: How out-of-state liberal elite’s money muddies Georgia politics

Photo by Nicole Craine/The New York Timesen / Rick Scott, R-Fla., right, listens as Georgia Republican Senate Candidate Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign stop in Carrollton, Ga., on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022.
Photo by Nicole Craine/The New York Timesen / Rick Scott, R-Fla., right, listens as Georgia Republican Senate Candidate Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign stop in Carrollton, Ga., on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Photo by Nicole Craine/The New York Timesen / Rick Scott, R-Fla., right, listens as Georgia Republican Senate Candidate Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign stop in Carrollton, Ga., on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022.

With control of the Senate on the line, every close race gets mean. Predictably, the devils have come to Georgia in the form of big, out-of-state, coastal elite money, hoping to slime football hero Herschel Walker. He is running against a lucky incumbent, the Most Rev. Raphael Warnock.

I knew the Dems would drag up Herschel’s past because they cannot run on issues. They might even find out that Herschel Walker fought for the South in the Blue-Gray game in Mobile in 1982. But this time they are much meaner.

With two Black candidates running for the Georgia Senate seat, Democrats have run out of things to call racist. So now they are running incredibly vicious ads about kids Herschel fathered out of wedlock and a dubious abortion claim. With “sources” unnamed, some woman sent in a Hallmark card and said Herschel paid for her abortion, which is something Dems want government to pay for anyway.

The good news is that Herschel is loved and adored in Georgia, where he led the Georgia Bulldogs to a national championship. He could have played for the University of Southern California, but he apparently has always had an aversion to Trojans.

People try to say Herschel is not smart enough to be in Congress. Are you kidding me? He has proven he can be in congress with many women. And just how smart do you have to be? AOC might be the least informed narcissist ever. Her preferred pronouns are “me, me, me” and sometimes “I.”