South Fulton Today

Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R-GA) is now pitching himself as someone who can bring all people of the state and country together, despite insisting that "wokeness" on race, transgender rights and other issues "threatens U.S. power," a recent report from FOX 5 Atlanta said.

Throughout much of his campaign, Walker has taken to calling all Georgians his “family” while contradicting his promise of unity by saying those who have a different vision, such as opponent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), are sources of division and can leave the county if they are dissatisfied.

"I don’t care what color you are," Walker told an overwhelmingly white crowd recently in Bartow County, north of Atlanta; the FOX 5 report said. "This is a good place and a way we make it better is by coming together."

Walker's campaign has recently been dogged by allegations that he encouraged and paid for a former girlfriend's 2009 abortion and later urged the same woman to have another one, even though one of the central tenets of his election campaign has revolved around a pro-life stance; the report said.

A minister at the same Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta where Dr. Martin Luther King once preached and served, Warnock has at least partly centered his reelection campaign on King’s long-held vision of a "beloved community," including religious pluralism, LGBTQ rights, ballot access and racial equity; the report said.

Walker will face off against Warnock in the U.S. Senate race on Nov. 8.