National-Donald Trump on Tuesday named Herschel Walker, who unsuccessfully ran for a Georgia Senate seat in 2022, as his pick for U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.
“Herschel has spent decades serving as an Ambassador to our Nation’s youth, our men and women in the Military, and athletes at home and abroad,” Trump wrote on his social media platform TruthSocial.
Walker, a Heisman Trophy winner at University of Georgia before playing in the NFL, led a tumultuous Senate campaign two years ago as the Republican nominee in his home state of Georgia, ultimately losing to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in a run-off.
