Athens News Matters: Trump Endorsed Herschel Walker Surges to the Top in Republican Primary

WUGA | By Stephen Fowler

Published October 29, 2021 at 3:28 PM EDT

Former University of Georgia football star, Herschel Walker, has been riding the wave of a Trump endorsement in the Republican primary for US Senate to challenge democrat Raphael Warnock.

Since entering the race for US Senate late this summer, Herschel Walker has surged to the top of a crowded field of candidates in the Republican primary. We’ll take a look at how his campaign is shaping up.

GPB's Stephen Fowler has the story.

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Stephen Fowler

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.

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