President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday appointed Herschel Walker, who lost his 2022 campaign for a Georgia Senate seat, as the U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.
Trump appoints former Senate candidate Herschel Walker as ambassador to the Bahamas.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday appointed Herschel Walker, who lost his 2022 campaign for a Georgia Senate seat, as the U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.
Trump said on Truth Social that “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.”
Before playing in the NFL, Walker won the Heisman Trophy at the University of Georgia. Two years ago, he ran as the Republican contender for the Senate in his native state of Georgia, but lost in a runoff to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. In 2022, NBC News reported that Walker’s evasiveness about his past, financial difficulties, and micromanagement all contributed to issues throughout his campaign. A shocking allegation that Walker, a fervent opponent of abortion, had funded a woman’s abortion in 2009 upset his campaign only weeks before the election.
Trump appoints former Senate candidate Herschel Walker as ambassador to the Bahamas.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday appointed Herschel Walker, who lost his 2022 campaign for a Georgia Senate seat, as the U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.
Walker, who ran alongside Trump in the 2024 presidential election, needs to be confirmed as ambassador by a simple majority in the Senate. Early next month, Republicans seize control of the chamber.
Nearly every member of Trump’s Cabinet has been named, while some Senate Republicans have expressed concern about a few of them. Additionally, he has appointed a number of well-known people to ambassadorships, including Tom Barrack, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Charles Kushner to France, Greece, and Turkey, respectively