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October 17, 2022

GOP's Herschel Walker Skips Second Debate with Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock
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Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock debated Libertarian Senate candidate
Chase Oliver in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday. Next to the two men stood
an empty lectern for Republican candidate Herschel Walker, Senator
Warnock's main competitor, who refused to participate in the debate. The
event came two days after Warnock and Walker faced off Friday night in
what is expected to be their only debate. Walker was forced to defend
his anti-abortion stance, after a former romantic partner recently said
the ex-football player once paid for her to have an abortion and later
urged her to terminate another pregnancy. She had the child. Walker has
denied the claims. Senator Warnock, meanwhile, defended abortion rights
in light of the recent reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Sen. Raphael Warnock: "A patient's room is too narrow and small and
cramped a space for a woman, her doctor and the United States
government. We are witnessing right now what happens when politicians -
most of them men - pile into patients' rooms."

Warnock and Walker also clashed over their positions on the police,
Medicaid expansion and who they supported as the respective leaders of
their parties.


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