up because of what the russians and saudis just did. i ll speak with don bacon and elizabeth slot kin. plus presidential portrait. maggie haberman has an in-depth look at his rise to power, including changing views on abortion, reversing the position he once made right here on this program. i m very pro-choice. yamiche alcindor and brendan buck. welcome to sunday, it s meet the press. announcer: this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. i m kristin welker in for chuck to do. election day is just 30 days away. ronald reagan worried jimmy carter would engineer a last-minute release of u.s. hostages. carter, of course, did not, but the term stuck. there s at least three stories unfolding. first the nuclear threat from russia. then there are rising gas prices, now averaging just under $4 a gallon, which democrats worry there will be a sign to voters that there is a true. but the october surprise of the week, it could determine control of senat
which we ll zoom in on in just a moment. but i want to focus on this. we are learning over and over again this election cycle that nominating strong candidates does matter if a political party wants to quwin an election, it matters a lot. but the rules may have changed. with voters willing perhaps to tolerate things that they just wouldn t put up with in the past. herschel walker is about to test this hypothesis. he is locked in a tight race in georgia against democratic incumbent rafael warnock. walker has openly backed a national ban on abortions with no exceptions, that s rape, incest, the life of the mother, no exceptions, and he has campaigned on an anti-abortion platform. and now he is denying allegations that he paid for a woman he dated to have an abortion more than a decade ago. the claim was reported by the daily beast. we should underscore cnn has not independently verified the allegations. the daily beast report claims that walker paid a woman to terminate a p
Herschel walker, who s running an antiabortion candidate, spend the week denying allegations by a woman that he paid for her abortion in 2009. she now says he hedged her to end a pregnancy two years later. they ended the relationships when she refused. they have a copy of a check from walker reimbursing her as well as a get well card he allegedly signed.
Daily beast. we should underscore cnn has not independently verified the allegations. the daily beast report claims that walker paid a woman to terminate a pregnancy that she claims they conceived together in 2009. the daily beast says the accuser provided a receipt from the abortion clinic she went to. she provided an image of a check from walker reimbursing her for the brother, along with a get well card that he allegedly sent her with the check. this is supposedly that card with his very recognizable signature on it. as for herschel walker, he is vigorously denying that any of this happened. i never asked anyone to get an abortion. i never paid for an abortion and it s a lie. this follows many other scandals that have rocked the republicans campaign. three women, including his ex-wife and an ex-girlfriend, have accused him of threatening them.