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Herschel Walker is in the midst of a tense race for a U.S. Senate seat against incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, but the former NFL running back is avoiding a media blitz. After reports came forward that the senatorial candidate had a young son largely unknown to the public, it was revealed and confirmed that Walker actually has four children in total.
The Daily Beast ran a report earlier this week that Walker fathered a boy out of wedlock who is currently 10 years old. On Wednesday (June 15), Walker confined that he has another son with a different woman and a daughter that he fathered while in college. The news comes as Walker has repeatedly called out Black fathers for being absent in the home, blaming the instances for problems within the Black community.
The outlet learned that along with Christian Walker, 22, who has a presence on social media, Walker also fathered a boy in Texas who is now 13. The age of his daughter was not disclosed but she is an adult.
“I have four children. Three sons and a daughter. They’re not ‘undisclosed’—they’re my kids,” Walker said in a statement to The Daily Beast. “I support them all and love them all. I’ve never denied my children, I confirmed this when I was appointed to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, I just chose not to use them as props to win a political campaign. What parent would want their child involved in garbage, gutter politics like this?”
It does appear that Walker is active in the life of his teenage son as evidenced by photos on social media. But a relationship with the 10-year-old son seems to be strained as he reportedly doesn’t spend time with him but does send child support and gifts.
Walker is also enduring accusations of domestic violence from the mother of his oldest son, ex-wife Cindy Grossman. The Senate race is tightly contested and Walke enjoyed some previous endorsement from the likes of Donald Trump and other GOP standouts.
Reactions to Herschel Walker being a bit of an absent father himself cropped up on Twitter. The reactions are below.
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BREAKING: MAGA candidate for Senate Herschel Walker is exposed for having TWO more secret children — but hypocritically he constantly rails against other people being deadbeat parents. RT IF YOU THINK THAT IT’S TIME FOR THIS LIAR TO SUSPEND HIS CAMPAIGN!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) June 16, 2022
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.@HerschelWalker out here lecturing black men on fatherhood and ain’t seen his kid since Obama’s first term.
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) June 15, 2022
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Lauren Boebert was a sex worker & had 2 abortions but pretends to be a pro-life Republican
Herschel Walker has a secret son but runs as a conservative family man
Trump is a serial sexual assaulter but evangelical Christians worship him
Hypocrisy is the hallmark of the GOP
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) June 15, 2022
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Herschel Walker revealing his secret kids pic.twitter.com/2KRQcWUjiT
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 16, 2022
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Herschel Walker releases a statement
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— Common Ground Social
(@CGSDemocracy) June 16, 2022
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Herschel Walker out here making kids and leaving White women to raise them, while preaching about fatherlessness in the Black community.
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) June 16, 2022
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“If only Black men would value education, take care of their children and stop being violent, maybe they wouldn’t have to blame everything on ‘raysizzum’”
It turns out that Herschel Walker is the Black man that Herschel Walker was talking about. https://t.co/xBAjc4qjrb
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 16, 2022
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For campaign bio purposes, Herschel Walker has two more sons than he started the week with. And the week ain’t over. https://t.co/LfhBa1sD2W
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 16, 2022
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NEW: Herschel Walker has 2 more secret estranged children, a son and a daughter, in addition to the other secret son reported earlier this week, per @thedailybeast. Walker said if you have “a child with a woman, even if you have to leave that woman… you don’t leave the child.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) June 16, 2022
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Georgia..If you are waiting in line to claim Herschel Walker is your father, STAY IN LINE pic.twitter.com/Q7Ve13JsA4
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 16, 2022