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Herschel Walker to sue Daily Beast over report he paid for abortion in 2009

Herschel Walker, the GOP Senate nominee in Georgia, said Monday that he plans to sue a news website after it reported he paid a woman to have an abortion in 2009.

Mr. Walker said a story the Daily Beast posted Monday is a “flat-out lie” and said, “I deny this in the strongest possible terms.”

“It’s disgusting, gutter politics,” Mr. Walker said in a statement posted on social media. “I’m not taking this anymore. I plan to sue the Daily Beast for this defamatory lie.”

Mr. Walker is running as a staunchly pro-life Republican in a tight race with Sen.