Former Georgia Bulldogs star Herschel Walker failed in spectacular fashion against Democratic incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock in the runoff election last month, eventually conceding the race when he trailed by more than 100,000 votes on election night, a staggering amount given the Republican standing of the state and performance of other Republican candidates in Georgia.
While Fox News dubbed him one of their biggest political losers of the year and the Republican Party would love to forget his campaign ever existed, there are still some lingering bits of news surrounding the campaign.
Last week, a staffer on the campaign alleged that Republican activist Matt Schlapp made “sustained and unwanted and unsolicited” sexual contact with him while they were driving back from a bar in October.
Now, with Walker’s campaign filing its campaign finance reports late last week, we learned that his campaign held onto more than $5 million when the election was over. Per NBC News, it’s unclear why Walker didn’t spend that money, especially given how close the runoff election was in the final days.
NBC News notes that it’s not unheard of for a losing candidate to keep some of the money raised during an election. There is a lot of leeway for how that money can be spent, but it’s usually donated to other candidates or PACs, donated to charity, or used for a future political purpose. It’s hard to imagine Walker has much of a future in politics, so we’ll have to see what happens to all that money people donated to him.
[NBC News]
