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He is SO full of shit!Lindsey Graham tears up while explaining why Black Americans need Herschel Walker to win
Brandon Gage
November 11, 2022
The hotly contested race between Republican Herschel Walker and incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock for Georgia's United States Senate seat is headed to a runoff on December 6th because neither candidate earned fifty percent of the vote in the Tuesday midterms.
Whichever man wins could determine partisan control of the upper congressional chamber. Given those enormous takes, there are significant efforts among supporters of Walker and Warnock to convince Georgians to show up to the polls in a little less than four weeks. On Thursday night, Walker was the beneficiary of a bizarre last-minute pitch by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), who broke down into tears on Fox News while declaring that Black people need Walker to prevail.
Graham, who proclaimed last month that Walker's nomination proves that racism is nonexistent inside the GOP, is a key witness in Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's scheme to overturn President Joe Biden's Peach State victory in the 2020 election.
"We cannot let that happen. We need to have his back. If Herschel wins, he's going to inspire people all over Georgia of color to become Republicans and I say all over the United States," Graham blubbered. "Herschel Walker is a nightmare for liberals. He's an African-American conservative. They have belittled him. They have treated him like crap, his family, stand by Herschel tonight."
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Emile
(22,945 posts)suggest they throw out democratic ballots!
Roy Rolling
(6,938 posts)🐊
Lindsay is such a bad actor both literally and figuratively.
Mister Ed
(5,944 posts)It's tragic, I tell you. Just tragic.
Iris
(15,670 posts)FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)Lovie777
(12,330 posts)Walker secures a "rubber stamp" for the GQP just like Tim Scott.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)the flag for Republicans of color? Excuse me--I just shit myself laughing.
True Blue American
(17,989 posts)gab13by13
(21,408 posts)He most certainly had a huge case of the vapors, I hope a fainting couch was nearby.
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)Could it be election fraud in Georgia?
Mike Nelson
(9,968 posts)... there are so many things in life that are better than being a clownish Senate chairman. Lindsay is a wealthy man and he doesn't need to cry on TV and let The Donald cheat him at golf. What is wrong with him?
Emile
(22,945 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,202 posts)down his back. He told the non-white community in Paterson all the amazing things he was going to do when they elected him to Congress.
Turns out he was Q-Anon. Denied it of course.
Fortunately, he lost the election.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)The Republicans are probably worried that racist white people (their base) won't bother to go to the polls for a runoff, just to pick from among two Black men. This is Lindsey's way of dog whistling that it's important to support the Black guy who is all-in for their party's racism.
I take this as a sign that the Republicans are very worried about turnout for their run-off.
Lonestarblue
(10,085 posts)Many Republicans wont bother to vote when their vote doesnt change the Senate majority.
twodogsbarking
(9,822 posts)MissMillie
(38,582 posts)Concern over control of the Senate is the only reason some GOPers voted for him.
What hurt him is that he's a lying, hypocritical, fake-Christian.
Vinca
(50,310 posts)stereotypical black guy to run for the seat. IMO, it strikes me as downright racist. I imagine somewhere there is a qualified black candidate who might have run, but they wanted "the show" Herschel would put on.
70sEraVet
(3,516 posts)bullimiami
(13,105 posts)they are equal opportunity shills for anything that brings them power.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)If he would just admit he is gay.
Not a whole one just a half.
keithbvadu2
(36,934 posts)The Wizard
(12,549 posts)needs Walker in the Senate to be the Senate Judiciary Chairman in order to launch bogus investigations of Democrats.
dlk
(11,578 posts)They dont care Walker is thoroughly inexperienced, incompetent and a terrible person. He is so brain damaged he can barely string two coherent sentences together. The fact that Republicans are waving his skin color in everyones face shows how deeply cynical and racist they truly are.
Herschel is a joke. Hes running against the Pastor of Reverend Kings church. But yea, lets follow a man who is a violent, absentee father.
dlk
(11,578 posts)And with a last name that begins with a W. Of course, they revile everything Senator Warnock stands for, a brilliant and compassionate man.
treestar
(82,383 posts)of any black republican means they are not racist. They kind of think that settles it for all time.
dlk
(11,578 posts)They just pretend otherwise, cynics to the core.
cannabis_flower
(3,768 posts)Isnt Raphael Warnock also black? No need to answer this. Im not unclear of the answer. Just wondering why black people would need Herschel Walker as opposed to another black person.
Vogon_Glory
(9,132 posts)Decency and integrity, but practices it, too.
I think that even if I was what was once considered a conservative (pre-Tea Party, pre-Trump, pre-Qanon) Republican (Im not), Id say that Reverend Warnock was a better choice.
GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)A group called "Georgia Honors" is already out with anti-Walker ads, reminding us of his domestic abuse issues.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)And I also suspect those tears are about and for something else entirely separate from Herschel Walker .
peacebuzzard
(5,183 posts)I guess for them, it's so much easier to hate, complain, and cry.
what a loser. gross and repugnant loser.
edhopper
(33,621 posts)and tried to move his party from being Homophobic fascists?
whathehell
(29,095 posts)There are truly no words.:
Tribetime
(4,711 posts)That's him
Traildogbob
(8,826 posts)GQP threw off of voter rolls? Remember all those blacks that were killed by GQP white cops. Remember Black Lives Matter attacks? Remember your base, white supremacist? Remember South Carolinas church murderer that was cheered by GQP? Remember all those church burnings in SC by whites? Shut the ever loving fuck up Graham. And tell me something while you are on the black band wagon, what color is Warnock? Uncle Tim Scott, the black mascot for your massively diverse KKKlan , I mean party, not gonna recruit masses of blacks to GQP. Are they gonna allow blacks to vote to join your KKKlan?
Go to Georgia asshole. A grand Jury has a chair for you. Go interfere in elections out of your state Again. You are about to go through some things for the rest of your life. Your brand is about to be as powerful as being named Donald Trump Jr. Cry over that you tiny little prick.
(Please get this to him ASAP.)
Maybe he should lose his military Pension for all his traitor activities.
13Dogs
(45 posts)More performative hysteria from little Lindsey. Not sure who is impressed with his tired over the top acting (even William Shatner is embarrassed for him ) but it seemed to work to get Kavanaugh on the SC. Pathetic excuse for a Senator and a traitor to boot.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)assaults a woman.
Scrivener7
(51,021 posts)everything behind Walker, if Walker doesn't win, that compromat they threatened him with during that golf game with tfg will be released.
THAT is what motivates Lindsay. Only that.
In It to Win It
(8,285 posts)Jack the Greater
(601 posts)The GOP needs Herschel Walker to win
Chainfire
(17,644 posts)an intellectually limited former football player to represent them, and the rest of their state, in the Senate. It is almost as if it is a bad joke being played on black people by the top Republicans.
KS Toronado
(17,344 posts)Every time a speeder who broke down into tears explaining to the cops that they couldn't afford a speeding
ticket.....has always been let off the hook.
treestar
(82,383 posts)as if there were no other reasons for black people not to become Republicans.
MagickMuffin
(15,958 posts)I dont think most of black Americans watch Fox.
Goober!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Or Alan Keys? Or David Clarke? Or Diamond? Or Silk? Cry more, Lindsey.
ecstatic
(32,733 posts)And Herschel and other qOP loons are a nightmare for our country because y'all continue to put a deranged narcissist first. It's disgusting and disturbing to watch.