WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who has said he opposes abortion with no exceptions, has denied a media report that he paid for a girlfriend’s abortion in 2009.
Walker, who aims to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia, was responding to a Monday report by The Daily Beast that said the candidate’s then-girlfriend provided a receipt, a copy of the check and a get-well card given to her by the former football star endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
“This is a flat-out lie — and I deny this in the strongest possible terms,” Walker, 60, said in a statement late Monday.
Matt Fuller, an editor at the publication, said it stood by its report, which Reuters could not independently confirm.
The report comes two weeks before early voting begins in Georgia, one of several critical races that will determine whether Democrats hold onto their narrow majority in the chamber.
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