Walker slams Senator Warnock in new ad featuring athlete ‘forced to compete against biological man’

Herschel Walker, the GOP candidate running in the Georgia Senate race, released a new runoff ad criticizing Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock for voting against an amendment that would ban funding for educational institutions that allow biological males to compete in female sports.

The ad features Walker with Riley Gaines, a 12-time NCAA All-American swimmer, who shared her story of competing against a biological male in a women’s swimming competition.

“For over a decade I’ve worked hard, 4 a.m. training to be the best. But my senior year, I was forced to compete against a biological male,” Gaines said in the campaign announcement. .

Walker called the competition “unfair and wrong.”

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“A man won a swimming title that belonged to a woman and Senator Warnock voted to let it happen,” Gaines said, criticizing Warnock’s vote against Title IX that prevented biological males from participating in sports female

“Warnock is afraid to stand up for female athletes,” Walker said, before Gaines jumped in to applaud the Republican Senate hopeful for standing up “for what’s right.”

Warnock did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the new announcement.

Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock voted against Title IX.
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In March, Gaines was forced to compete against, and eventually tied with, biological male Lia Thomas at the NCAA 200-yard championships. The contest quickly gained national attention, and Gaines joined several Republican candidates on the campaign trail this cycle.

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The involvement of transgender athletes in women’s sports is an issue that several GOP candidates have highlighted in their campaigns this cycle, claiming that their Democratic opponents support biological men competing in women’s sports while campaigning with female athletes who personally experienced losing in an athletic competition. against a biological male who identified as female.

Republican US Senate candidate Herschel Walker is looking to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.
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In March 2021, Warnock voted against an amendment that sought to “prohibit funds available under Title II to states, local educational agencies, and institutions of higher education from allowing any student whose biological sex is male participate in a designated sports program or activity for women or girls”.

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The announcement comes just two weeks before Warnock and Walker face off in a Dec. 6 Senate runoff in Georgia.