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GOP Senate hopefuls focus on the candidate who wasn't there

Trump-backed candidate Herschel Walker dominated the Republican U-S Senate primary debate Tuesday night, even though he did not show up.SOQ.]]

Candidate Latham Saddler asked a question that was on everyone's mind at the debate:

"Where the heck is Herschel Walker," asked Saddler. "And how on earth does he think that he can beat Raphael Warnock in a general election?'

Walker is the financial and polling frontrunner with celebrity status after winning the Heisman trophy in 1982 while playing football at the University of Georgia. Being endorsed by Donald Trump doesn't hurt either.

But for much of the debate, the five other candidates shared their platforms for voters and said Walker would not be able to beat incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock in the fall because of his political baggage.

For those candidates that did show up, all of them appeared to endorse a total ban on abortions in America -- even in cases of rape or incest.

Stephen Fowler is the Producer/Back-Up Host for All Things Considered and a creative storyteller hailing from McDonough, Georgia. He graduated from Emory University with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. The program combined the best parts of journalism, marketing, digital media and music into a thesis on the rise of the internet rapper via the intersectionality of social media and hip-hop. He served as the first-ever Executive Digital Editor of The Emory Wheel, where he helped lead the paper into a modern digital era.