Republican Herschel Walker, a former Heisman trophy winner and MMA fighter now running for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, was forced to cancel a fundraiser on Wednesday after its organizer used an image of a swastika made out of syringes on her Twitter profile.
The fundraiser was scheduled to take place in Parker, Tex., and was hosted by Bettina Sofia Viviano-Langlais, a Republican donor and Texas filmmaker who also hosted a mask-burning bonfire last year. Her Twitter profile picture displayed four syringes arranged in the shape of a swastika, a symbol that has been co-opted by anti-vaccine activists in an attempt to compare COVID-19 vaccine mandates to Nazi treatment of Jewish people during the Holocaust.