Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday endorsed Herschel Walker, who is being strongly backed by Donald Trump in his 2022 run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Politico reports.
Saying that Walker, a retired NFL player, “is the only one who can unite the party, defeat Senator Warnock, and help us take back the Senate,” McConnell ignored the allegations against Walker, including from his now-ex-wife who said that when they were married he repeatedly threatened violence against her.
“I’m going to blow your f’ing brains out,” Cindy Grossman, Walker’s ex-wife, told ABC News her then-husband said to her as he pointed a pistol at her head, the AP reports. She was forced to obtain a protective order against him. Her sister in an affidavit said Walker“stated unequivocally that he was going to shoot my sister Cindy and her boyfriend in the head.”
In that same July article the AP reported “Walker, now 59, has at times been open about his long struggle with mental illness, writing at length in a 2008 book about being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, once known as multiple personality disorder.”
CNN adds that Walker “has been particularly prolific and specific in his election-related dishonesty.”
Two days before the January 6 insurrection, Walker tweeted “America needs a total cleansing” that only Donald Trump “can do with the help of TRUE PATRIOTS.”
Walker has falsely claimed Joe Biden did not get even 50 million votes, when he won the White House with over 81 million. And on January 6 Walker tweeted that the election had been “stolen” and called on Donald Trump “to find out who these people are as they do not look like MAGA!”
In addition to McConnell’s endorsement, Politico reports “Walker has also received endorsements from GOP Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri, Steve Daines of Montana, Roger Marshall of Kansas and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Graham has played a key role in helping to guide Walker’s candidacy.”