Herschel Walker Was Never Going to Get Black Votes

Whether or not Herschel Walker survives the latest allegation about his problematic sexual past — funding a former girlfriend’s abortion more than a decade ago — complicates judging his relationship to the black community. Before this October surprise, the New York Times gave us a glimpse of Walker’s Georgia hometown. “All [Walker] campaign materials were in the white community,” said Curtis Dixon, who is Black and who taught and coached Mr. Walker, when he was a high school football prodigy. “The only … house that has a Herschel Walker poster is his family.”