Former University of Georgia football standout and pro-football running back Herschel Walker easily won the Republican Senate primary in the Peach State on Tuesday, lining him up to take on incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock in November, the NY Post reports. Walker defeated six other GOP candidates, including state Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black.
Walker, who won the 1982 Heisman Trophy as the best college football player in America and helped the Bulldogs to the national championship as a freshman in 1980, was the heavy favorite to win the primary after securing endorsements from both former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Trump called in to Walker’s afterparty to rally the candidate and his supporters with a ringing congratulatory speech.
The whole Minnesota – Dallas trade, for this stuff, was one of the dumbest in NFL history.
Was he named after his grandfather?
Who? Johnny Walker?