Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate candidate for Georgia, already conceded his special runoff election to incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock.
Walker weathered several scandals throughout the particularly vicious campaign. After an NBC report blamed a wooden candidate who refused to be honest about his past, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie placed the blame squarely at the feet of former president Donald Trump, who personally recruited Walker into the race but chose not to campaign with Walker in the election’s closing days.
“Bad candidates lose. Good candidates have a chance to win. And Herschel Walker was not a good candidate,” Christie said on This Week as part of his responsibilities as a political commentator for ABC, according to The Hill.
“On the Donald Trump side… we all remember, in 2016, he said, if he got elected, there was going to be so much winning and winning and winning and winning, they’d get sick of winning. None of us knew at the time he was actually talking about the Democrats were going to do all that winning, not the Republicans,” Christie said.
“And that’s what he’s wrought. And Herschel Walker is his creation. And so he’s got to own the fact that Herschel Walker so vastly underperformed in a state as — as we saw earlier, every other Republican running statewide won, except for Herschel Walker. You know what that tells you? Bad candidate.”
Walker has yet to announce if this will be his last time seeking office.
[The Hill]
