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President-elect Donald Trump has a new game plan for Herschel Walker, his longtime friend, ally, and former football star.
Three years after Trump Handpicked walker to run for Senate in his home state of Georgia in a crucial, combative, expensive and high-profile Senate race, the president-elect now selects his friend to serve as US ambassador to the Caribbean nation of the Bahamas .
“Herschel has spent decades serving as an ambassador for our nation’s youth, our men and women in the military, and athletes at home and abroad,” Trump said in a statement Tuesday night on social media, while noted Walker’s resume, which includes serving as co-chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition during Trump’s first term in the White House.
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Former college football star Herschel Walker, right, speaks at a political rally as he applauds former President Donald Trump, in Perry, Georgia, on September 25, 2021. (REUTERS/Dustin Chambers)
Walker is a former pro and college football star who won a Heisman Trophy and helped propel the University of Georgia to a national championship.
His friendship with the former and future president dates back to playing for the Trump-owned New Jersey Generals USFL football team in the 1980s. Walker was also a major Trump supporter and surrogate in the 2020 presidential election.
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In August 2021, Walker launched a Republican Senate campaign in Georgia after months of support and encouragement from Trump to run for office.
Walker, an early politician, was persecuted during his Senate race for controversial statements and damaging revelations about his personal life and business career.
Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker of Georgia holds a campaign rally on October 27, 2022 in Cumming, Georgia. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
The race between Walker and Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock ended up being one of the most watched Senate battles in the 2022 midterms. The contest went into overtime, with Walker narrowly losing to Warnock in a runoff of the elections in December of that year.
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This year, Walker joined Trump on the campaign trail in Georgia days before Election Day, as the former president carried the key Southeastern battleground state after narrowly losing it to the President Biden four years ago.
Former NFL running back and former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker addresses the crowd at a rally for former President Donald Trump on November 3, 2024 in Macon, Georgia. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Walker becomes the third Republican to lose a recent Senate race in Georgia to be nominated by Trump for office in his second administration.
Former Sen. David Perdue, who lost his seat to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in the 2020 cycle, was tapped by Trump to serve as ambassador to China, and former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who lost to Warnock in the cycle of 2020, she was chosen. of Trump to lead the Small Business Administration.
Trump nominates Walker as ambassador the bahamas it’s the second time this month that the former soccer star has hit the headlines.
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Last weekend, Walker graduated from the University of Georgia, 42 years after he last attended the school.
