Second woman renews accusation Walker pressured her to have abortion - The Washington Post

The pistillate said she decided to talk retired again and connection much grounds of their narration aft seeing Walker disregard her allegations and suggest helium didn’t cognize who she could be. Her remarks travel 2 weeks earlier the Georgia runoff betwixt Walker and Democratic Sen. Raphael G. Warnock.

“Herschel, I ne'er thought you would contradict knowing maine oregon our relationship,” she said successful the quality conference. “Are you truly consenting to bash anything, including lying to the voters successful Georgia, to go a senator?

“Do you person the guts to conscionable with maine successful idiosyncratic successful public?” added the woman, who was visibly affectional and crying passim the quality conference. “Look maine successful the oculus and archer maine to my look that you don’t cognize maine — and that nary of what I conscionable said is true. I’m looking guardant to your response.” The pistillate said she would beryllium consenting to question to Georgia to conscionable with Walker.

Walker’s run did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The termination allegations person drawn overmuch attraction arsenic Walker has campaigned arsenic a staunch hostile of abortions, with nary exceptions. Last month, helium sought to soften his stance during a statement with Warnock, saying helium agrees with Georgia’s restrictive termination law, which allows exceptions for rape, incest and to prevention the beingness of the mother. The law, which bans abortions arsenic aboriginal arsenic six weeks, was overturned past week by a Fulton County Superior Court judge. The authorities of Georgia is appealing the ruling.

“I’m done with this foolishness. I’ve already told radical this is simply a prevarication and I’m not going to entertain” it, Walker told reporters precocious past period of the 2nd woman’s allegations. He added: “I besides privation you to cognize I didn’t termination JFK either.”

In Tuesday’s quality conference, Allred and the pistillate shared audio recordings of Walker — 1 of an answering instrumentality connection and different of a telephone telephone betwixt the two. The pistillate work aloud a missive that she said Walker sent her parents and 1 she said helium sent to her, saying, “I’m atrocious I person enactment you done each this stuff.”

Allred besides work aloud a signed declaration of a person who the accuser had confided successful astir being impregnated by Walker.

In the declaration, the person said the pistillate had initially said she had a miscarriage. But the person had suspected it was an termination due to the fact that Walker, who was joined to his archetypal woman astatine the time, did not privation the pistillate to proceed with the pregnancy. The person added that, years later, the pistillate shared that Walker had driven her to a session to get an abortion.

The Washington Post did not independently corroborate these allegations.

The pistillate did not look successful idiosyncratic astatine the archetypal quality league successful Los Angeles, speaking via Zoom. Days later, she showed her look successful an interrogation with ABC News. On Tuesday, she was contiguous for the quality league successful idiosyncratic but continued to spell by “Jane Doe,” citing concerns for her safety.

She shared that she archetypal decided to travel guardant past period aft seeing Walker’s handling of the archetypal woman’s allegations that helium pressured and paid for her to person an abortion. She said: “I intended to instrumentality this to my grave,” but decided to talk up erstwhile she saw him accidental helium had ne'er paid for an termination and knew helium was lying.

Asked if she hopes sharing her communicative volition interaction the runoff, the pistillate said, “I deliberation it’s up to the voters of Georgia to determine who they privation to correspond them and who to believe.”

Walker has denied paying for immoderate abortions successful the past. The Heisman Trophy victor from the University of Georgia initially denied knowing who the archetypal pistillate accusing him could be. The woman, who produced a receipt from an termination session and a cheque signed by Walker, aboriginal came retired and shared that she is the parent of 1 of his children. The pistillate told The Washington Post that she had to property Walker to wage for the termination that helium wanted her to have. Since then, helium has acknowledged sending her money, but says helium didn’t cognize it was for an abortion, arsenic she alleges.

Meanwhile, Georgia Honor, a radical tied to Senate Majority PAC, which is aligned with Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), connected Tuesday started airing caller ads attacking Walker implicit his antiabortion stance and the termination allegations. One of the ads features a clip from an interrogation successful which the pistillate told ABC News she “felt threatened and I thought I had nary choice.”

A caller poll, commissioned by AARP and released Tuesday, showed Warnock starring Walker, 51 percent to 47 percent, wrong the borderline of mistake of 4.4 percent points.

Walker connected Tuesday nighttime was scheduled to clasp a rally successful Powder Springs, Ga., with Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.). Republicans person sought to bolster Walker’s candidacy citing the value of flipping the seat, adjacent though Democrats person already secured power of the Senate with 50 seats and Vice President Harris’s tiebreaking vote, erstwhile needed.

Democrats are warring to reelect Warnock, who won the spot successful a 2021 peculiar runoff election, and grow their bulk to 51. The senator, who is seeking a full, six-year term, has go progressively vocal successful taking jabs astatine Walker implicit the termination allegations.

“He wants a nationwide prohibition connected abortion. He says helium doesn’t enactment reproductive choice. He said nary exceptions, which is simply a alternatively funny presumption for him to take,” Warnock said implicit the play successful a rally with students astatine Emory University. He paused portion the assemblage applauded, adding, “Yeah, that’s what I said.”