‘This Erection is About the People’: Herschel Walker’s Gaffe on Fox News Goes Viral

Georgia GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker smiles during remarks during a campaign stop at Battle Lumber Co. on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, in Wadley, Ga. Walker’s appearance was his first following reports that a woman who said Walker paid for her 2009 abortion is actually mother of one of his children – undercutting Walker’s claims he didn’t know who she was.Mary ManleyWalker is a former football running back who is campaigning in Georgia as a Republican nominee for US Senate. The candidate, who is running on an extreme anti-abortion platform, has become a controversial topic as two women have come forward with claims the candidate pressured them into, and paid for their abortions.US Senate candidate Herschel Walker is going viral… well, not him but a gaffe that the former athlete made on Fox News while seated between Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). As it happens, when asked to comment about the recent criticism he had been receiving, Walker said: “First of all this election is more than Herschel Walker, this erection is about the people.”