Herschel Walker, a former football star who recently won the Republican nomination for the 2022 United States Senate candidacy in Georgia, was mocked after he argued the government should not enact laws designed to combat air pollution because America’s “good air” will simply “decide” to go to China.
A clip of Walker's remarks went viral following a campaign stop in Hall County, Georgia, on Saturday, July 9. He said that since "we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air, so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move."
Walker added that all of this "bad air" then "moves over to our good air space. Then now we got to clean that back up."
You can hear what he said in the video below.
\u201cHerschel on the climate/Green New Deal/air:\n\n"Since we don't control the air our good air decided to float over to China's bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got we to clean that back up."\u201d— stephen fowler (@stephen fowler) 1657498295
The footage of Walker's comments has been viewed more than two million times and left listeners gobsmacked.
Many questioned how Walker could possibly be running for political office.
\u201cMy brain just started bleeding.\u201d— John Iadarola (@John Iadarola) 1657639332
\u201c(After much prayerful consideration I have come to the conclusion that Mr. Walker is just very stupid.)\u201d— Soledad O'Brien (@Soledad O'Brien) 1657568964
\u201cThis guy shouldn\u2019t even be operating power tools at this point! Someone get him the help he needs and off the public stage. This should be embarrassing for the GOP! Vote for Raphael Warnock. He has the answers!\n\n#wtpBLUE\n#FreshResist\u201d— kim o Pro-Democracy! (@kim o Pro-Democracy!) 1657569157
\u201cThis seems like a cruel parody. But it\u2019s reality. This is who Herschel is: An unintelligent, cartoonish, science denying, Steppin\u2019 Fetchit like, GQP sock puppet\u2026a completely unfit, buffooon. The fact that Republicans are running him shows how little they care about this country.\u201d— Kenny BooYah! \ud83d\udd96\ud83c\udffe (@Kenny BooYah! \ud83d\udd96\ud83c\udffe) 1657571643
\u201cHerschel Walker is among the dumbest humans on the planet.\u201d— The Hoarse Whisperer (@The Hoarse Whisperer) 1657572320
\u201cMy gosh, the idiocy abounds! Herschel, MTG, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert\u2026GOP rock stars. Total embarrassments.\u201d— Jill Holler (@Jill Holler) 1657577987
\u201cWe can focus on Mr. Walker's words, but think about the people who put him up to this and the depth of cynicism required to do so.\u201d— Steven Beschloss (@Steven Beschloss) 1657583153
\u201cI never feel anything but profound sadness when I hear him.\u201d— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sherrilyn Ifill) 1657592385
\u201cBrothers and sisters in Georgia, please, for the sake of the country, will you PLEASE spare us from Herschel Walker. Do not send this man to the US Senate!\u201d— Joe Madison (@Joe Madison) 1657621261
Walker is known for making head-scratching remarks.
In April, Walker was widely criticized on social media after he claimed Democratic President Joe Biden's administration “decided that they were going to give up our energy."
Walker continued to offer some incomprehensible energy policy advice. He went on to say the Biden administration "started the whole downfall" because the United States is not "energy dependent anymore."
Claiming the Biden administration "blamed everyone else except themselves," he referred to the Michael Jackson song "The Man in the Mirror," saying "you gotta look at yourself to know what's going on."
Last month, Walker was soundly mocked after he claimed there are 52 states in the United States during an attempt to criticize Stacey Abrams, the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist.
Walker directed criticism at Abrams after she said she is "tired of hearing about [Georgia] being the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live.”
during a June 21 interview with The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Walker suggested Abrams should go live in another state—adding she has 51 others to choose from.
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