The Republican candidate for the US Senate seat in Georgia, Herschel Walker, says during a speech in the town of McDonough that 'vampires are cool people'. The former football star says during rambling remarks: ''I don’t want to be a vampire any more. I want to be a werewolf.' The statement was the latest controversial – or outright bizarre – intervention from Walker, who struggled to overcome his Democratic opponent in the midterm elections and will face the incumbent Raphael Warnock in a runoff on 6 December