On Monday, The Day by day Beast reported that Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia who has campaigned on being anti-abortion, paid for his then-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009. Walker has denied the allegation. On this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses how the scandals surrounding Walker have advanced over the course of his Senate marketing campaign and the way this might have an effect on the result of the race. They break down how candidate misconduct is usually factored into the FiveThirtyEight mannequin and if this latest allegation will even be thought-about a scandal by the mannequin’s requirements.
