Herschel Walker Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks to supporters at the Northeast Georgia Livestock Barn in Athens, Ga., on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Walker spoke about gas prices and the November election. News Joshua L Jones

Georgia GOP senatorial candidate and former Georgia Bulldogs star running back Herschel Walker has a history of verbal gaffes, nonsensical language, factual inaccuracies, and a blatant disregard for the truth. And Walker was at it again with a combination of all of those on Saturday.

Walker recently declined an invitation to participate in a debate on Oct. 13 in Macon against Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock. His reason for declining is puzzling, to say the least.

“I’m not going to respond to anything because you know that’s not a debate, and you know that,” Walker told 13WMAZ. “You’ve got people that are contributors to his campaign and it’s in this room that only two people gonna see it on a Sunday night, I think. NFL Football, I am giving you an opportunity to be statewide so everybody can see what it is, see the contrast between the two of us. I don’t know how you can ask for anything better.”

Aside from the confusing language, the problem with Walker’s rationale is that the debate he’s declining is not actually on Sunday, as he seems to think. It’s on a Thursday night.

As for Walker’s claims that “only two people” will see it, the debate will have a live audience and will be broadcast by 11Alive, Georgia Public Broadcasting, The Telegraph and Mercer’s Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University.

While Walker has declined the Oct. 13 debate, he apparently wants Warnock to agree to a different debate in Savannah, slated for Oct. 14.

“It is like the ‘Rumble in the Jungle.’ Everyone gets a chance to see he and I go at it,” Walker said in Wrightsville on Friday. “This little country boy that’s not too smart, and I am trying to unseat a Senator who is wrecking things. I’m going to call him Wreck-It Ralph. He ought to get to Savannah, Georgia, to go up against Herschel Walker.”

In the same interview where he declines an invitation to a debate for factually untrue reasons, Walker then calls for Warnock to “stand behind his words” and “show up for the debate.”

“It is time that people see the difference. So on Oct. 14, I want Sen. Warnock to be ready because I have accepted a debate,” Walker said during the appearance. “Now he can quit talking and show the people he’s going to stand behind his words and show up for the debate.”

Walker’s invitation for the Oct. 13 debate remains open.

[13WMAZ]