NFL icon Herschel Walker Former President Obama has spoken out about his recent controversial comments about black men not supporting Kamala Harris.
Obama spoke about the vice president's declining support during Harris' recent campaign stop in Pittsburgh on Thursday. black voterEspecially black men.
“Now I also want to say that with brothers it seems more obvious. So if you don't mind, for a moment, I need to talk to you all and tell you that when you have a choice, everything will be clear: when On the one hand you have a person who grew up with you, went to college with you, who understands the struggle (and) the pain and joy of this experience,” Obama said.
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Maher joked that former President Barack Obama had to “berate” black men for supporting Harris. (Michelle Gustafsson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Obama even suggested that these voters do not currently support Harris because she is a woman. At no point did Obama acknowledge that his record as vice president and his storied career as a prosecutor might have resulted in less support.
“I talk directly to men. “Part of me thinks, well, you don't like the idea of a woman being president, so you come up with other options and other reasons,” Obama said.
Walker is one of many public figures on both sides of the partisan line who have criticized Obama for his remarks this week.
(Barack Obama), have you forgotten how hard we fought for our right to vote! Telling us how to vote based on color is a step backwards. Biden/Harris' bad policies have harmed us all. We need unity, brother, not division! Walker wrote in X's Saturday post.
Walker is a former American football player who played in the NFL for 12 seasons. He previously played in the USFL, a league designed to compete with the NFL. Former President Trump He was a league investor and owner of the New Jersey Generals league franchise, for which Walker played.
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LA Times columnists claim that former Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is a black man who preached white supremacy. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Walker is best known for being part of one of the most iconic trades in NFL history in 1989. The trade sent Walker from the Dallas Cowboys to the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for players and NFL draft picks that made the Cowboys a team that won three Super Bowls in four years from 1992 to 1995.
In 2022, Walker won the Republican Senate nomination in Georgia in a landslide victory. Trump. However, the race between Walker and first-term Senator Warnock went to a runoff because neither candidate received a majority of the votes in the general election. Warnock won in the run-in.
Still, Walker has been a vocal supporter of other right-wing figures and policies, as well as a vocal supporter of Trump during the current election cycle.
Walker also has a brief history of political interactions with Obama. The former president went on a lengthy tirade during a speech in Georgia ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, mocking the former president's return. Obama said Walker is “someone who wears a fake badge and claims to play cops and robbers like a kid in law enforcement” and “has a habit of not telling the truth.” Obama even suggested that Walker being so loyal to Trump “means he's not really thinking about you and your needs.”
A few days later, Walker addressed Obama's comments in a statement.
“President Obama was here last night. He said I was a star. He expressed himself wrong, didn't he? I'm not a star, I'm a warrior for God,” Walker said. “He needs help because he brought the wrong horse. Senator Warnock is a bad horse. You know he can't cope and it's time for him to go.”
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Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama appear on stage between speeches during the second night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Tuesday, August 20, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (via Tom Williams/CQ-Apel, Getty Images)
Now Walker has once again attacked Obama after a week of exceptionally poor press about the 44th president.
Obama has also been criticized by prominent figures on the left, including Bill Maher, former Democratic Ohio Sen. Nina Turner and former BLM activist Javier Duroso, who is Fox News Interview This Week Harris takes on black men over “lack of achievement.” Duruso also called Obama “disgusting.”
“It's absolutely disgraceful and we cooperated with Obama,” Duruso said. “Black men are tired of being forced to think about the color of our skin.”
Obama's comments came after a Sept. 30 Pew Research poll found that only 84 percent of blacks said they planned to vote for Kamala Harris in the presidential election, while 13 percent said they supported Trump. In contrast, in 2020, Joe Biden won 92 percent of the Black vote.
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