By EFE
The Republican candidate for the US Senate Herschel Walker, a former football star and publicly anti-abortion,
was accused on Wednesday by a second woman of having paid for a termination of pregnancy.
His campaign in Georgia, a key state in the legislative elections to be held on November 8, has been punctuated by controversy over the accusations of former lovers.
The lawyer of this second woman, Gloria Allred, indicated in a press conference that when her client found out that she was pregnant, in 1993, the now candidate for the Senate convinced her to have an abortion and gave her cash for that purpose.
The woman went to a clinic but was overcome by the situation and could not continue.
The next day, according to that version, Walker personally drove her to the center and waited for hours in the parking lot until she carried him out.
Republican candidate Herschel Walker, who is running for a Senate seat from the state of Georgia, addresses the crowd of supporters during a campaign event on October 20, 2022 in Macon, Georgia.
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The aspiring senator, backed by former Republican president Donald Trump, made a career for twelve seasons in the national league and won the Heisman trophy for the best college football player in 1982, while he was a member of the Georgia Bulldogs.
"The Democrats are saying and doing everything they can to win this seat," Walker said at a rally Wednesday in which he denied those facts.
Progressives currently control the Senate and the House of Representatives, but hold power in the House of Representatives only on the tie-breaking vote of the country's Vice President, Kamala Harris, and cannot afford to lose any seats.
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The narrow margin between Walker and his opponent, the Reverend Raphael Warnock, makes Georgia the focus of all eyes.
According to the weighted average of polls carried out by the FiveThirtyEight website, Walker is in the lead with 46% of voting intentions.
The first indictment against the Republican candidate was made public earlier this month.
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That first woman revealed to The Daily Beast newspaper that she encouraged her to terminate the pregnancy because she considered that it was not her right time to have a child.
Years later she became pregnant again and
although he tried to pay for her abortion again, she refused and had the baby.
On October 14, in his only electoral debate against Warnock, Walker made it clear that he is against the voluntary interruption of pregnancy and that accusations of this type are lies: “If I have something, it is that I am very transparent.
I am a Christian and I believe in life”, he stressed.
