Warnock, Walker get personal in Georgia's closing arguments

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., speaks at a campaign event in Clarkston, Ga., on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. At left is U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga. Herschel Walker and Sen. Raphael Warnock meet Tuesday, Nov. 8, in Georgia’s Senate contest that could help determine which party controls the Senate for the next two years. More than 2.5 million Georgia voters have already cast ballots, about a 20% increase over advanced voting in 2018. (AP Photo/Bob Andres, File)

After spending months arguing that Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is “not ready” for high elected office, Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia is intensifying his critique ahead of Election Day to say the celebrity athlete is fundamentally unfit for Capitol Hill.

From a rally with former President Barack Obama to a statewide bus tour that runs through the eve of Election Day on Tuesday, Warnock has hammered Walker as a “pathological liar” who has exaggerated his business, academic, professional and philanthropic achievements and been accused of violence against his family members and of paying for girlfriends’ abortions despite his public opposition to the procedure.

“This is a man who lies about the most basic facts of his life,” Warnock said on a stage he shared with Obama. “And now he wants the rest of us … to somehow imagine now that he’s a United States senator. … Herschel Walker is not ready. He’s not ready. Not only is he not ready. He’s not fit.”