Republican Senate heavyweights sought Tuesday to boost Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker, brushing aside concerns about allegations that the football icon once paid for an abortion and stressing that a Republican Senate majority should be voters’ foremost priority.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs Republicans’ Senate campaign arm, and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, did not directly address questions about whether they talked privately with Walker about reports that he paid for and encouraged an abortion in 2009 for a woman with whom he later fathered a child.
Instead, they urged voters to concentrate on defeating Sen. Raphael Warnock and rebuking President Joe Biden’s leadership.
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