This sports star gives Joe Biden sleepless nights

Herschel Walker’s (60) resume reads like the biography of a superhero incarnate: As a student, he was the top American football player in America, then played in the National Football League for 15 years and was a bobsleigher in the 1992 Winter Olympics 7th instead, became a professional in the dangerous martial arts MMA at age 47, ran the 100 meters in 10.22 seconds, fathered at least four children with at least four wives and made millions as a gastronomic entrepreneur.

Now the man who looks like Mike Tyson without tattoos stands in a parking lot in front of a shopping center in Richmond Hill, a small town in the southern US state of Georgia. Behind him, teenagers from the local high school wave “Herschel for Senate” banners, in front of him hundreds of fans shout. “All my life has been preparing for the holy war that we must now wage,” Herschel Walker shouts to the crowd.

The voice is deep, the teeth glisten snow white in the warm November sun, the shirt stretches over the muscular chest. “Always remember: I was at the Winter Olympics as a bobsleigh even though there is no snow in my home country of Georgia,” Walker says. “I made it anyway, so I can do it here too!”

Herschel Walker Could Be Joe Biden’s Political End

“This here” is possibly the most pivotal race during this year’s midterms in America, when the entire House of Representatives (the US National Council) and a third of the Senate (the US Council of States) will be reassigned. Both chambers are currently held by the Democrats of President Joe Biden (79).

If Herschel Walker wins the Georgia Senate race against Democratic Rev. Raphael Warnock (53), the Senate will most likely fall to Republicans. Biden would be politically paralyzed. His party’s hands are tied. Washington would come to a virtual standstill. Republicans have the best chance of winning the presidential election in two years.

So much is at stake in Georgia’s runoff. The two parties have already invested more than $130 million in the local election campaign for the Senate seat. The entire state (four times the size of Switzerland) is covered with advertising posters for the two candidates. Former President Barack Obama (61) came especially to support Herschel Walker’s opponent. The predictions predict an extremely close outcome — like in the 2020 presidential election. At that time, Trump lost by just 11,000 votes to Biden in Georgia (10.8 million residents).

Walker’s Confused Monkey Comparison

Herschel Walker did not enter political affairs until 2021 – at the direct request of Donald Trump (76). The President-elect shouted to Walker, “Run, Herschel, Run!” And Herschel Walker followed. The recipe by which the neopolitician wants to create the political touchdown in his very first attempt is very simple: The ex-superstar appears as a radical opponent of abortion who wants to bring “Christian values” back to Washington. In the parking lot in Richmond Hill, he says, “I’m moving to Washington—with Jesus Christ!” He wears the necklace with the silver Archangel Gabriel clearly visible on his chest.

His Tuesday afternoon performance is a captivating and confused mishmash of autograph sessions, Christian sermons and political chatter at the regular table. He will not come up with concrete solutions to America’s problems (inflation: eight percent, record high illegal migration on the southern border). But Walker warns his fellow citizens not to kick the Democrats’ “false promises.” “They’ll take you straight to the elevator in the direction of hell,” shouts the 60-year-old.

It is true that he himself is not exactly an angel. At least two ex-girlfriends accuse him of forcing them to have an abortion against their will. Walker denies everything. And anyway: “We all have a story. But I, I washed myself in the blood of Jesus Christ. God has forgiven me,” said Herschel Walker. “If you vote for me, we’ll go to the promised land together.” Sounds disturbing – but Walker has said dumber things. For example this: “Science wants us to believe that we are descended from monkeys. If that’s really true, then why are there still monkeys?”

Herschel Walker’s Message to Blick Readers

The candidate for one of the most powerful offices in the world’s most powerful country has learned over the course of the election to refrain from such forays into rhetorically thin ice. In the Richmond Hill parking lot, he sticks to his core message: God wants him to participate. So he shows up. And because God wills it, he will do it.

Walker addresses the crowd for less than 20 minutes, then it’s time to shake hands, smile at the cameras, take selfies. “Herschel” also takes 20 seconds for the Blick reporter. The handshake: firm. The smile: broad. The music from the speakers in the background: Loud. Walker, as a senator, will you support America’s hard line against Putin? I call into Walker’s ear. “Dear friends, if I am in the Senate, I will protect the world! God is with us,” Walker shouts. On Tuesday it will be decided whether he will win his “holy war”.