How Did 'Access Hollywood' Become a G.O.P. Pep Talk?
I wasn’t surprised in the least by an allegation this week that Herschel Walker, who has advocated a no-exceptions ban on abortions, once paid for a girlfriend to have one. Walker has adamantly denied the claim, which appeared in an article in The Daily Beast, and The Times hasn’t confirmed it. But if true, it’s hardly the first example of Republican hypocrisy along these lines. And his background has been an inexhaustible mine for opposition research. There’s dirt everywhere you dig.
What did throw me was what some Republicans said publicly to defend Walker and to assure others in the party that all of this was inconsequential to his effort to defeat Senator Raphael Warnock, an incumbent Democrat, in the midterm election in Georgia next month.
They took a jaunty trip down memory lane to … October 2016, Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign and the surfacing of the “Access Hollywood” tape.
According to an article by Shane Goldmacher, Maya King and Lisa Lerer in The Times, the conservative Christian leader Ralph Reed compared the timing of The Daily Beast article “to that of the ‘Access Hollywood’ recording that threatened Mr. Trump’s bid in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. ‘We’ve seen this movie before,’ Mr. Reed said. ‘They’re trying to take down a good man.’”
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