Herschel Walker’s mom has cast doubt on some of the former football player’s recent claims on the campaign trail.
Walker is running for the US Senate seat in Georgia. He’s up against the Democrat incumbent, Raphael Warnock.
At a campaign event late last month in Forsyth, Georgia, Walker made an announcement about his heritage.
“My mom just told me that my mom, grandmother, was full-blood Cherokee,” Walker said. “So I’m Native American!”
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“I’m a super mutt,” he continued. “I don’t know what I am, but this was so funny. This was so funny. I said, ‘Mom, why you never said anything to us?’ She said, ‘Back in my days, a lot of the Native Americans were treated worse than Blacks.’”
The comments echo something similar Walker said back in January at the University of Georgia, when he said he’d just discovered his mother is “40% Native American.” He has repeated the claim on other occasions.
In June, at another event, he said he’d done a ’23 and Me’ ancestry test, finding out, “I’m part Native American.”
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Christine Walker gives her opinion
HuffPost reached out to the three federally-recognized Cherokee tribes in the US to ask them if they could verify Walker’s claims. Only one, Cherokee Nation, got back to them. It said it had no record of Walker in its database.
Walker’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment from HuffPost, which asked for the name of Walker’s grandmother.
HuffPost then reached out to Walker’s mom, Christine.
In a brief phone call, she recalled hearing stories growing up about her dad’s mom being connected to the Cherokee tribe. However, she couldn’t clarify the connection.
“Back when I was a little child running around, she was kin to the Cherokee.”
“I don’t know how far back. See, my grandmother, she passed when I was quite young. I don’t know too much about how she was connected.”
She was unable to confirm if anyone in their family was a “full-blood Cherokee.”
Campaign controversy for Herschel Walker
Walker’s campaign has been dogged with controversy. In the last couple of weeks, there have been allegations he paid for a former girlfriend to have an abortion back in 2009. These revelations prompted Walker’s son, Christian, to condemn his dad’s beahviour on the campaign trail and his treatment toward Christian and his mom.
I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us.
You’re not a “family man” when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence.
— Christian Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) October 4, 2022
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Most opinion polls have shown Warnock and Walker evely tied, although Warnock appeared to nudge a couple of points ahead in the wake of the abortion stories last week.
Later today, the two candidates will finally go head-to-head in an eagerly-awaited live debate at Savannah’s District Live event venue.
Mister P
Anyone who votes for this moron proves they don’t care about America. They may as well write in Putin.
My2CentsWorth
Are you aware of the fact that you may be calling the majority of the voters in his district morons?
Kangol2
@My2CentsWorth, can you at least learn to read? Mister P called Walker a “moron.”
He said Walker’s supporters “don’t care about America,” not that they were morons.
Also, Walker isn’t running in a “district,” he’s running for a US Senate seat to represent an entire state, Georgia, which has about 10.7 million people.
Please, man, learn to read. It’s fundamental!
Phillip
He needs to just shut his pie-hole and drop out of the race. He’s embarrassed all of his family with each of these fabricated lies that continue to get bigger and bigger as he tells his stories. Does he think they will make him a better person to the constituents if he does this?
His son, Christian is correct about him even though he goes overboard with his drama waving his arms about. He should have made his statement brief, but like his father he likes his fifteen minutes of fame as well.
Jay002
Dr. Henry Gates has shown that many African Americans think they have Native ancestry but it is more likely Caucasian ancestry. If Mr. Herschel Walker was qualified he would already know this fact.
My2CentsWorth
My family came from Georgia. My maternal grandfather stated that his grandmother was part Indian. Don’t know how this worked out because of the slavery and racist system. My grandfather was born in the 1890s or 1880s. He died when he was nearly 90 (or maybe older) in the late 1950s. How, or even where, his great grandfather or great grandmother, had the opportunity to engage in sex with an indigenous person is hard to say. Because of my grandfather’s hair, skin color and eyes one of his paternal ancestors was obviously someone from the big house or maybe a slaves’ overseer.
abfab
Right! Ths southerners in GA need guilt relief and since they can’t afford reparations, all will be right with Jesus if they just vote for and elect the…………
Kangol2
Lying Herschel is nuttier than a pecan orchard and exactly the kind of semi-sentient puppet the GQP want in office. Georgia voters, spare us all this ongoing debacle and vote for the hot Reverend Warnock, please!
bachy
It’s the same kind of bizarre, humble-bragging, flag-waving hogwash we saw in Trump’s campaign. Are these guys all working off the same playbook?
I could see through it from Day One and have always been completely boggled by the fact that so many Americans bought into it.
My2CentsWorth
It is incredible that Herschel Walker’s campaign consultants haven’t been more involved with his campaign enough to give him advice on what to say. Of course, Trump proved that there are enough voters who have no concerns in a candidate’s lack of attributes that would normally be prerequires to getting elected.
scotty
when moms wont black you up well then it’s time to leave.
johncp56
OMG keep the cam on him, what patsy for the Party, I would love to hear him reply to Gay Questions! bet his head pops off when he remembers he got head from a guy, this is the kinda DL guy we need to stay away from,
abfab
That’s the problem. He’s kinda hot.
scotty
i would eat the ass out of ten lil nas xs before id go within 10 miles of herschel walker. jus saiyan
nas if you see this, and youre game, HMU
scotty
until he decides to speak aloud, then it turns to dullness.