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Walker accepts debate invite, but not one that Warnock chose

FILE - Senator Raphael Warnock greets the crowd during a rally in Atlanta, on July 23, 2022. Warnock has committed to three debates with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker, but Walker has now chosen a separate, fourth debate before the November election. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, FFile)

FILE - Republicans U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker, center, talks with Georgia state Sen. Butch Miller, left, and former state Rep. Terry Rogers as Walker campaigns on July 21, 2022, in Alto, Ga. Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock has committed to three debates with Walker, but Walker has now chosen a separate, fourth debate before the November election. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow, File)

FILE - Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., joins Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to speak to reporters after the Senate advanced a $280 billion bill designed to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry and to accelerate high tech research that backers say will be critical to the economy in future decades, at the Capitol in Washington, July 26, 2022. Warnock is running for his first full Senate term, pitching himself as a lawmaker willing to do whatever it takes to help his state. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FILE - Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for the state's U.S. Senate seat, takes questions from the media after a campaign event July 20, 2022, in Athens, Ga. Senate GOP nominee Herschel Walker is making every effort to shape the contest as a referendum on what his campaign calls the “Biden-Warnock" agenda. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Walker accepts debate invite, but not one that Warnock chose