Smart or Not? Should Herschel Walker Run for Senate in Georgia?

CLAY: One of the big questions has been, given the fact that he has to run for reelection in 2022, Reverend Raphael Warnock, who won a close election in Georgia — who the Republicans are going to pick to run against him has become a massive storyline. And one of the guys that I think would absolutely dominate in the state of Georgia is Herschel Walker, legendary former running back of the Georgia Bulldogs. We just saw in the state next door, Buck, Tommy Tuberville in Alabama, former Auburn football coach, get elected, and he replaced Doug Jones after the mess with Roy Moore and that Senate election. I think the same thing could happen if Herschel Walker ran against Warnock, and Herschel Walker is teasing it in a big way. Listen to what he posted on social media earlier this week.

WALKER: Hey, what you hear there is hope. That’s what I call it. You know, he’s ready. I’m getting ready. And we can run with the big dogs.

CLAY: So, Herschel Walker, the national championship running back for the George Bulldogs, who have not won a title since he was there, and that’s a video that he put out where he zooms in on that car says he’s ready to run with the big dogs and shows a Georgia license plate on that car and many people — including me — are taking that as a sign. Donald Trump has tried to encourage him to run. Buck, are you actually intrigued by the story? Does Herschel Walker for Senate in any way make sense to you?

BUCK: Well, look Kelly Loeffler you recommended was appointed —

CLAY: That’s right.

BUCK: — right? Kelly Loeffler was appointed and then defeated by Raphael Warnock, but I think that was a perfect storm of bad timing for Republicans in Georgia. You had a lot of GOP-on-GOP —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — consternation to put it politely — family show here, consternation. And Trump was obviously getting all the attention because of the after-election controversies and all the debates about what happened there. So we lost. I mean, the fact we lost those two Georgia Senate seats was a gut punch after getting kicked in the face on Election Day. And I think that the next time around you’ll see a far more favorable environment ’cause the great thing about Democrats, Clay, is the more people have to deal with their actual results of governance, the more they realize maybe they shouldn’t actually have them in charge.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

CLAY: I want to update you on the poll question, which is an interesting one. We talked in the first hour quite a bit about the idea of the filibuster and the overall power dynamic that exists in the United States Senate right now where we have 50-50 tie with Kamala Harris breaking the tie.

There’s a lot of talk about who is going to challenge Raphael Warnock next year in Georgia in 2022, and Herschel Walker seems as if — the legendary running back from the University of Georgia — seems as if he is gonna step into this fray.

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Nearly 90% of you are saying that Herschel Walker should run for the Senate. I think he would win that Senate seat in the state of Georgia.