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on stage tonight, what might be the most important debate of this entire midterm election cycle, democratic senator raphael warnock versus republican candidate herschel walker in savannah, georgia. a race that could control the party for the next two years. the stakes would already be insanely high even if the republican candidate wasn t facing a major scandal about whether or not he paid for an ex-girlfriend s abortion despite running oen an antiabortion platform. here s how herschel walker addressed his ex-girlfriend s accusation just a few minutes ago. that s a lie. and on abortion, you know, oi ma christian. i believe in life. i tell people this. georgia is a state that respects life. and i ll be a senator, it protects life. i say that was a lie, and i m not backing down. we ll get back to that scandal in georgia in just a moment. but to understand exactly what s happening there, regarding scandals requires a little context because the term scandal took on a who ....
ten years before she died. i haven t talked about her publicly much before, but she raised me and was like a mom to me. again, you can point your cellphone at the qr code on your screen right now for a link to it or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. the news continues. cnn tonight with jake tapper starts now. welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. on stage tonight, what might be the most important debate of this entire midterm election cycle, democratic senator raphael warnock versus republican candidate herschel walker in savannah, georgia. a race that could very well decide which party will control the u.s. senate for the next two years. so, yes, the stakes would already be insanely high even if the republican candidate wasn t facing a major scandal about whether or not he paid for an ex-girlfriend s abortion despite running on an anti-abortion platform. here s how herschel walker addressed his ex-girlfriend s accusation just a few minutes ago. that s ....
Indicative of a bigger, more important problem. but the press thought quail was a dunce, so they had at it. some of these scandals have been way overblown and unfair. oh how i long for those days when a republican candidate would be savaged in the press for pursuing gender equity. we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds to become qualified to become member of our cabinet. they brought us whole binders full of women. binders full of women. believe it or not, the press savaged him for that. i mean, the horror. can you imagine? mitt romney wanted to make an effort to hire women. what a jerk! right wing media got their idiotic licks in too, of course, jumping on president obama for, well, for just about everything. when president obama saluted a marine while holding a coffee cup, or when he made a comment about buying arugula as whole ....
I don t have time to go into them all this hour. before that, we were in a very different place. historically, the word scandal has been thrown around pretty loosely here in the nation s capitol. back in the 1992, then-vice president dan quayle hosted a spelling bee at a new jersey elementary school and told this poor kid he needed to add an e to the end of the word potato. a spelling scandal. how quaint. quail was working from an inaccurate flashcard prepared by the teacher. that in and of itself might be indicative of a bigger, more important problem. but the press thought quail was a dunce, so they had at it. some of these scandals have been way overblown and unfair. oh how i long for those days when a republican candidate would be savaged in the press for pursuing gender equity. we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds to become qualified to become member of our cabinet. i went to a number of womens ....