Herschel Walker's Story About Bull Ditching Pregnant Cows Raises Eyebrows

On the stump, Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker has tried to put on a folksy, down-home demeanor in his bid to unseat Atlanta incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock.

But in light of recent revelations the anti-abortion Republican paid for an ex-girlfriend's abortion and allegedly denied the existence of several of his children, one of the regular anecdotes he's employed on the trail—a tale of a bull who hops the fence for something better—has aged about as well as milk.

Campaigning in Carrollton Tuesday with Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Rick Scott, Walker—the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner as a Georgia Bulldog running back—regaled the crowd with a series of anecdotes about religion, inflation, "wokeism in the military," rising crime rates and his chances in next month's election.

But of all he discussed in his brief speech in the small northwestern Georgia city, it was his closing statement that appeared to garner the most attention online: a story of a bull with six cows, begun with a smiling Cotton and Scott behind him.

"Three of them are pregnant," Walker starts, "so you know he's got something going on."

Cotton immediately stops smiling.

"But all he care about is [keeping] his nose to the fence, looking at three other cows that don't belong to him."

The cow eventually decides he's ready to move on and jumps the fence, only to find the cows on the other side of the fence were not females—as the bull initially believed—but bulls like him. Walker said the story was intended to illustrate that the grass was not always greener on the other side.

"So I'm telling you," he concludes, "don't think that something is better somewhere else."

Others didn't see it that way, after a disastrous several-week stretch in which Walker was forced to confront additional accusations he had misled the public and his own campaign about his past.

Over the summer, it was reported that Walker had fathered several children he had allegedly not previously acknowledged, breaking with his own past claims that fatherless homes were a "major, major problem" in Black communities. Then, this month, The Daily Beast reported Walker—an anti-abortion candidate—had paid a woman he had impregnated to undergo the procedure, a revelation that drew criticisms from his own son.

Some on Twitter immediately noted the seemingly autobiographical connotations of the bull anecdote, with one user quipping it was "Definitely smart for him to keep telling a story about a bull impregnating multiple cows." Others said Walker lacked self- awareness, noting the number of pregnant cows in the story—three—paralleled the number of women he'd gotten pregnant who weren't his wife.

Newsweek has reached out to Walker's campaign for comment.