Five reasons HerschelWalker could survive bombshell abortion allegations Analysis by JimAntle:
The closeness of the race — Sen. Raphael Warnock leads by 1.3 points in the RealClearPolitics polling average — means it could be swung by any bombshell report, and abortion is a key issue.
That doesn’t by itself mean the report is false — remember the Hunter Biden laptop? But it does mean that the people most likely to believe the claims against Walker were already the least likely to vote for him. Clinton’s behavior did factor somewhat into George W. Bush’s subsequent win in the 2000 presidential election. After “Me Too,” some liberals regretted their 1990s support for Clinton. And people who espouse conservative social values, such as opposition to abortion, are always vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy that aren’t necessarily applicable to liberals.
The subsequent reemergence of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal played an important role in rendering Trump’s political obituaries premature. The former president’s detractors still mostly view the scandal as a videotaped confession of sexual assault, with his reference to grabbing a woman's anatomy an enduring anti-Trump rallying cry. But Republican voters see it differently, regarding the news story as a late political hit job against Trump. They may see shades of this happening to Walker.
Republican voters may decide to swallow any concerns they have about Walker, reasoning they are not voting for the man as much as they are casting a ballot for GOP control of the Senate. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is favored in his reelection campaign. President Joe Biden’s job approval ratings in Georgia are low, despite the fact he narrowly carried the state in 2020.
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