Herschel Walker, the soccer legend who unsuccessfully ran for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be ambassador to the Bahamas.
Trump made the announcement Tuesday in a put up on Reality Social, his social media web site. He described Walker as “a profitable businessman, philanthropist, former Heisman Trophy winner.”
Walker, a Republican, tried to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock two years in the past with Trump’s endorsement. Walker benefited in the course of the marketing campaign from practically unmatched title recognition from his soccer profession on the College of Georgia and within the NFL. However he fell quick in his efforts, unable to beat a bevy of damaging allegations, together with claims that he paid for 2 former girlfriends’ abortions regardless of supporting a nationwide ban on the process.
He campaigned for Trump this yr in his house state of Georgia.
To carry the ambassador place, Walker will want his nomination authorised subsequent yr by the Republican-led Senate.
Trump additionally introduced Tuesday that he was nominating artwork collector Nicole McGraw because the U.S. ambassador to Croatia.
Trump has chosen quite a lot of loyalists to diplomatic posts. Charles Kushner, the daddy of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, was named ambassador to France, and Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, one in all his strongest defenders within the Home, was picked as his ambassador to the United Nations.
He chosen one other Georgian, former Sen. David Perdue, to function U.S. ambassador to China. Perdue misplaced his Senate seat to Democrat Jon Ossoff 4 years in the past and ran unsuccessfully in a 2022 main towards Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.
Former professional soccer participant and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker talked about his lengthy friendship with President Donald Trump on the primary night time of the 2020 RNC.
One other former senator from Georgia, Kelly Loeffler, was additionally tapped by Trump for a job. He selected her to steer the Small Enterprise Administration.
