When the University of Georgia holds its December graduation ceremony on Friday, expect to see one particularly famous face among the thousands of students.
That would be former football star Herschel Walker, a household name in Georgia long before he unsuccessfully challenged Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock in 2022.
The Republican posted on social media he was excited to “share the moment ” at graduation with several current Bulldogs fresh off their victory in the SEC championship game.
Recruited to run for the Senate at Donald Trump’s urging, Walker’s campaign lurched from one crisis to another amid accusations about his history of violent behavior and infidelity, a knack for baffling statements and a pattern of exaggerations and lies.
Among those falsehoods was a claim that he graduated from UGA with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. His campaign was forced to delete the false assertion from his website and materials, and acknowledge that Walker left the school after his junior year to play professional football.