December 8, 2022
Christian Walker Celebrates Dad Herschel's Loss in Senate Race
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 3 MIN.
Liberals celebrated the loss of Herschel Walker to incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia in this past Tuesday's runoff election, but so did at least one conservative: Walker's son, right-wing influencer Christian Walker.
UK newspaper The Guardian noted that the 23-year-old social media personality – who denies being gay, but says he is exclusively attracted to men – took to Twitter to cheer as his father's defeat loomed on Tuesday night.
In a "flurry of tweets," Christian repeated many of the same talking points he had raised before about his father's troubling past and the disconnect between his Republican messaging and his personal conduct.
"Don't beat women, hold guns to peoples heads, fund abortions then pretend your pro-life, stalk cheerleaders, leave your multiple minor children alone to chase more fame, lie, lie, lie, say stupid crap, and make a fool of your family.." Christian posted, seemingly addressing his father, "And then maybe you can win a senate seat."
Walker followed that up with a message seemingly directed at people responding to his comments: "Don't compare Warnock running over his wife's foot to my father holding guns and knives to my mothers throat, threatening to kill his therapist, her, and one of his adultresses in a therapy session, and telling my mom and I he was going to beat our asses," Christian clapped. "Get off my page."
As previously reported, Christian Walker was relentless in calling out his father's alleged personal peccadilloes as the midterms approached, contrasting what he claimed to have been Herschel Walker's abusive treatment of Christian's mother and himself in contrast to the "family values" image his football player father sought to project.
"You're not a 'family man' when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence," Christian tweeted in October, before going on to add in a followup post: "I don't care about someone who has a bad past and takes accountability. But how DARE YOU LIE and act as though you're some 'moral, Christian, upright man.'"
"You've lived a life of DESTROYING other peoples lives. How dare you."
As he also had done earlier, Christian reiterated the opinion that it was a grave error on his father's part to agree to run for the office, given his past.
"The Truth: Trump called my dad for months DEMANDING that he run. Everyone with a brain begged him: 'PLEASE DON'T DO THIS. This is too dirty, you have an insane past... PLEASE DONT DO THIS.' We got the middle finger. He ran," Christian posted in yet another Dec. 9 tweet.
Then, taking aim at the GOP, Christian added: "Republicans, we say we don't play 'identity politics' and then you ran this man mainly because he was the same skin color as his opponent with no background other than football. A boring old Republican could have won."
"It can never be known how much damage the younger Walker's social media posts during the campaign, castigating his father for abandoning his wife and children, running off with other women and paying for girlfriends' abortions, did to his father's hopes of reaching Washington DC," The Guardian mused. "But an early happy family reunion would seem unlikely in the wake of Christian's latest barrage of messages and insults."
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
