Walker appears interested. He began making calls into the state, inquiring with Republicans about mounting a 2022 campaign, after the Jan. 5 runoff elections for Senate, Republicans in Georgia say. Those runoffs were a disaster for the GOP, as both Republican incumbents, Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, fell to Democratic challengers, defeats that cost the party control of the Senate in Washington.
Walker’s biggest hurdle in a primary, or general election, could be himself.
The businessman and former professional athlete has made provocative statement in media interviews and on social media platforms, mostly in support of Trump’s claims that the November election was stolen because of massive fraud that he argues was ignored in Georgia and elsewhere. Trump’s narrow defeat at the hands of President Biden made him the first Republican to lose the state’s electoral votes since 1992.
In a pair of conspiratorial tweets posted Jan. 6, the day the United States Capitol was ransacked by a mob of grassroots Trump supporters, Walker suggested the violence was perpetrated by leftists intent on hiding the fraud blocking the 45th president from a second term.
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