A new poll suggests abortion accusations like the one facing Herschel Walker won't likely change many votes. 👉62% said their vote wouldn’t change if a candidate had an abortion. 👉58% said it wouldn’t change if the candidate helped someone else get one.
Herschel Walker poses for a photo with law enforcement officers at a campaign event on Oct. 11, 2022 in Carrollton, Ga. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty ImagesJust days after news reports revealed that Herschel Walker — the Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia who strongly opposes abortion — encouraged and paid for an ex-girlfriend to have the procedure, a plurality of American voters nationwide indicated an allegation like that would be unlikely to change their vote.
Walker is reported to have encouraged an ex-girlfriend to have an abortion and reimbursed her for the procedure in 2009, according to reporting from the Daily Beast. Walker has denied the allegations. Fifty-seven percent of voters believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases compared to 34 percent who believe it should be illegal in all or most cases, the poll found. Just 8 percent said they didn’t know or had no opinion.
Seventeen percent said they would vote for a candidate from a different party. People who “approve” of Biden’s job performance were among the highest percentage of people to say they would vote for a different party, followed closely by those who describe themselves as ideologically liberal.
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