Colorado
Herschel Walker continues to campaign against LGBTQ community just hours after Colorado Springs shooting
During a campaign rally in Carrollton, Ga. Sunday, GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker continued his pattern of anti-LGBTQ remarks less than 24 hours after a deadly shooting at a LGBTQ club in Colorado.
During the speech, Walker began to disapprove of rhetoric about the definition of a woman and contend that his version of the Holy Bible has the “real definition.”
“But I’m gonna tell you the definition of a woman, cause it written in my great book [the Bible], it said a man and a woman,” Walker said. “And there’s a difference between the two of them so that’s the reason men shouldn’t be in women sports.”
Less than 24 hours after a deadly shooting at an LGBTQ club in Colorado, Herschel Walker riled up a crowd yesterday in Carrollton, Georgia with an anti-trans rant: “They don’t know the definition of a woman!” https://t.co/2Iml1CRnbz pic.twitter.com/JlfQ685UIS
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) November 21, 2022
Walker made the comments less than 24 hours after a shooter attacked the LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Co. Official reports suggest the alleged shooter, Anderson Lee Aldrich, killed five people and injured another 25 in an attack involving a “long rifle” before the club’s patrons subdued him.
Walker has made questionable comments about the LGBTQ community in the past, such as contending that transgender children will not get into heaven. He also recently released an anti-transgender ad where he appears with a college swimmer that complains about having to swim against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.
Herschel Walker is up with a new runoff ad about transgender athletes, featuring a swimmer who tied with Lia Thomas.
“My senior year, I was forced to compete against a biological male,” Riley Gaines says in the ad for Walker’s Senate campaign. pic.twitter.com/MlVxnJwkgB
— Natalie Allison (@natalie_allison) November 21, 2022
Walker and his opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D), advanced to a runoff election after neither candidate exceeded 50% of the vote required to win outright. The runoff will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 6. Should Walker win the runoff, the Senate will remain evenly split at 50 Democrats-50 Republicans like it has been since the 2020 elections, with Vice President Kamala Harris (D) acting as the tiebreaker vote. The Democrats could take a one-seat majority if Warnock gets reelected.