Former National Football League star Herschel Walker announced Tuesday he’d run for Georgia Senate to unseat freshman Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.). Walker already has the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, but his Senate campaign team also has deep financial ties to the former president and controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).  

Walker’s team has already formed a super PAC called Third Down Georgia, which registered with the Federal Election Commission in May and raised $27,102 through the second quarter.

The super PAC is incorporated under the Georgia Secretary of State’s office and lists its registered agent as Jason Boles, the treasurer of Walker’s principal campaign committee and a designated agent and custodian of records for Greene’s principal campaign committee. Boles is also the treasurer and custodian of records for Greene’s joint fundraising committee.

Greene, a first-term Georgia representative who is a loyal Trump ally and a supporter of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, was stripped of her committee assignments in February after several anti-Semitic comments she made, as well as speeches in which she encouraged violence against elected Democrats, became public.

The conservative congresswoman has also promoted other conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the Parkland, Fla., school shooting. She has propagated Trump’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and has compared mask mandates to the Holocaust.

Greene has capitalized on the controversy. She has raised $4.7 million ahead of the 2022 election cycle — $3.2 million of which came during the first quarter of 2021 in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. And much of Greene’s fundraising has come from small-dollar donors. In the first quarter of 2021, $2.6 million of Greene’s total contributions came from donors who gave $200 or less. In the second quarter of the year, Greene raised about $1.6 million, $967,045 of which came from small-dollar donors. [MORE]