Herschel Walker Claims He Is Native American [VIDEO]

The Huffington Post reports:

At a little-noticed campaign event late last month, Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker announced with great fanfare that his grandmother was “full-blood Cherokee” and that it means he is Native American.

“My mom just told me that my mom, grandmother, was full-blood Cherokee,” Walker said at the Sept. 28 event in Forsyth, Georgia. “So I’m Native American!”

Walker has been claiming for months that he has significant Native American ancestry, saying each time that he’d just learned this news from his mom. He repeated his claim at four campaign events in May, as if he had just discovered it.

The Daily Beast reports:

Cherokee Nation, the largest of three recognized tribes in the U.S., told HuffPost it had no record of Walker in its database. Walker’s mother, Christine, spoke to the site and said “she has no idea if an immediate ancestor was full-blooded Cherokee.”

She said she grew up hearing stories about her father’s mother being “kin” to the tribe, clarifying that “her grandmother was believed to be related to Cherokee peoples in some way, but she didn’t know how.”

NEW: Herschel Walker claims his grandmother was full-blooded Cherokee. His mom tells me otherwise. https://t.co/HdKeskdL26

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) October 12, 2022