Former Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker encouraged attendees at Donald Trump’s rally on Sunday to vote for the wrong candidate.
Walker, a retired football star, made the gaffe as he introduced Trump at a rally in Macon, Georgia and mistakenly called him Donald Trump Jr, the GOP presidential nominee’s son.
‘“Let us not let Donald Trump down, because he’s not going to let us down,” Walker said.
“It is time for it to stop, and it stop[s] on Tuesday when we get to the polls and we vote for my friend and your friend Donald Trump Jr.,” he continued before correcting himself and saying “Donald J. Trump.”
Walker ran for U.S. Senate in the 2022 midterm election.
During that campaign he made a series of high-profile gaffes and statements, including wanting to be a werewolf, a story about a bull in a field with three pregnant cows and claiming that China’s bad air is floating over to replace America’s good air.
Walker went on to lose the run-off election to Democrat incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock despite being endorsed by Trump.
Walker has stayed out of the spotlight since his loss and recently re-enrolled in college classes to finish his bachelor’s degree at his alma mater, the University of Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
