Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd on Sept. 8, Republican challenger Herschel Walker needled his opponent, the incumbent Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, about what Walker framed as Warnock’s unwillingness to debate him.
“The . . . big contrast between the two of us, and ... You may not have heard this. The man is scared to debate me. Y’all hear? ... No, he don’t want to debate me. I told him to show up October the fourteenth in Savannah, his hometown, and the man is still running. But he don’t know I can catch him,” Walker said, drawing a big laugh from the crowd, many old enough to remember when he was better known locally as a Georgia Bulldogs football player, before going on to an illustrious athletic career that included pro football, track, mixed martial arts, and the Olympics.
