The Daily Beast broke the story that GOP Senate candidate (!) Herschel Walker paid for a woman's abortion. Subsequently, his son, Christian - who is his own brand of crazy - accused his father or threatening violence against him and his mother.
Walker was never a bright guy, but he shows signs of cognitive decline traced, perhaps, to brain injury. Listening to him talk, there is no way an objective person could think he deserved to represent a state 10,500,000 in Senate. The fact that the Georgia GOP landed on someone who seems literally brain damaged, has shown signs of domestic violence and is a massive hypocrite on the abortion issue is taking their fealty to Trump a little too far.
Back in 2016, a colleague wandered into my office and asked, "Can he really win?" I said, "He's the candidate of one of the two major parties, so it's possible, but he's not going to." Yeah. So, we have a series of scandals that would sink a candidate in any reasonable form of objective electioneering. Yet Walker still has a chance.
Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, Fetterman is fronting a story about Mehmet Oz killing beagles as part of a medical experiment that was cited for animal cruelty. Again, this should sink Oz's campaign.
If Georgia or Pennsylvania were Mississippi, I would shake my head and acknowledge that there is simply no way for a Democrat to win. But Georgia is a swing state and Pennsylvania shades blue. But I can't sit here and say that Walker and Oz will lose. That's a mind blowing dysfunction in American democracy.
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