Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker discusses his past battle with mental health in an ad released Wednesday amid allegations the GOP candidate paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion.
“As you all know, I had a real battle with mental health. I even wrote a book about it. And by the grace of God, I’ve gotten over it.” Walker it says in the adreferencing his 2008 memoir “Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder”.
The former soccer star was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder “as a result of trauma he experienced in childhood,” according to his campaign site.
The ad posted Wednesday is Walker’s first since The Daily Beast. repositoryrted earlier this week that Walker, who has campaigned as an opponent of abortion, encouraged a then-girlfriend to have an abortion in 2009 and reimbursed her money.
The Hill has not independently verified the report, and the Senate candidate has vehemently said Denied the accusations.
In the new ad, called “Grace,” Walker takes a swing at his Democratic opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock, accusing him of “running a nasty and dishonest campaign” and claiming the Democrat “doesn’t even believe in redemption.” Walker concludes by saying that he has been “saved by grace.”
Walker, who is running on a “conservative family values” platform that is “pro-life and pro-family,” fell behind Warnock in an InsiderAdvantage-Fox 5 poll conducted a day after the allegations were published, fueling the republican swindleconcerns about the already tight Georgia race.
The Republican Party has closed ranks to defend Walker after the report, while accusing the media of stirring the pot five weeks before the election.
former president trump it isissued a statement on Tuesday saying that Walker “is being smeared and smeared by the fake media and obviously by the Democrats.”
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