The text exchange provided to NBC dated back to May 2022 and showed that the woman had previously expressed support for Walker’s candidacy. Walker’s explanation did not address those items. It was signed “H” along with the message: “Pray you are feeling better.”
The woman provided the Times and The Daily Beast with a copy of a $575 receipt from an Atlanta abortion clinic, a $700 check that she said was a reimbursement check from Walker and a copy of a “get well” card she said he sent her. Walker and the woman ended their relationship after she refused to terminate the pregnancy and she told the Times the former football star has had little interaction with the boy, now 10, since he was born. In the Times, the woman said Walker also urged her to have an abortion when she became became pregnant a second time. The Freedom Party was the only party in parliament to field a candidate against him.Credit: Natrice Miller / Natrice Miller / Republican Senate hopeful spoke to NBC as on the same day The New York Times published an interview with the woman, corroborating her account of the abortion story. There were seven contenders in Sunday’s election, but Van der Bellen had the implicit or explicit backing of Austria’s mainstream parties. The Alpine country of around 9 million people went through five chancellors during Van der Bellen’s first term, with government crises giving the often-largely ceremonial head of state unusually high visibility. Projections for ORF public television and the Austria Press Agency for the final result showed Van der Bellen winning around 56% of the vote, with a little under 18% for Rosenkranz.Ĭampaign posters for the 78-year-old Van der Bellen, who hails from the environmentalist Green party but ran as an independent, featured the slogan “The Safe Choice in Stormy Times.”Īustria has faced repeated political turmoil in recent years. Those figures didn’t include postal ballots, which will be counted on Monday. Preliminary results gave President Alexander Van der Bellen 54.6% of the vote and his closest rival, far-right Freedom Party candidate Walter Rosenkranz, 19.1%.
VIENNA (AP) - Austria’s liberal president was on course to win a second six-year term outright Sunday, avoiding a runoff vote after a campaign in which he portrayed himself as the stable option in uncertain times.
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