Trump chooses Herschel Walker as US ambassador to Bahamas

WASHINGTON – Herschel Walker, the soccer legend who unsuccessfully ran for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be ambassador to the Bahamas.

Trump made the announcement Tuesday in a put up on Fact Social, his social media web site. He described Walker as “a profitable businessman, philanthropist, former Heisman Trophy winner.”

Walker, a Republican, tried to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock two years in the past with Trump’s endorsement. Walker benefited throughout the marketing campaign from practically unmatched title recognition from his soccer profession on the College of Georgia and within the NFL. But he fell short in his efforts, unable to beat a bevy of damaging allegations, together with claims that he paid for two former girlfriends’ abortions regardless of supporting a national ban on the process.

He campaigned for Trump this 12 months in his dwelling state of Georgia.

To carry the ambassador place, Walker will want his nomination accepted subsequent 12 months by the Republican-led Senate.

Trump additionally introduced Tuesday that he was nominating artwork collector Nicole McGraw because the U.S. ambassador to Croatia.

Trump has chosen a variety of loyalists to diplomatic posts. Charles Kushner, the daddy of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, was named ambassador to France, and Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, considered one of his strongest defenders within the Home, was picked as his ambassador to the United Nations.

He chosen one other Georgian, former Sen. David Perdue, to function U.S. ambassador to China. Perdue lost his Senate seat to Democrat Jon Ossoff 4 years in the past and ran unsuccessfully in a 2022 major in opposition to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

One other former senator from Georgia, Kelly Loeffler, was additionally tapped by Trump for a job. He selected her to guide the Small Enterprise Administration.