Ralph Reed, surrogate for Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, was grilled at a put up-debate press convention over the “prop” badge Walker pulled out onstage.

Walker confronted off with incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock in a televised debate for the hotly-contested race Friday night, where he drew a flag from moderators when he pulled out a “prop” all over an trade about assisting the police.

Sen. Warnock referenced Walker’s prior false declare to have labored in regulation enforcement, saying, “I’ve never pretended to be a police officer.”

As Walker spoke back, he pulled out the badge, and was once admonished by way of moderator Tina Tyus-Shaw.

“No, no, no, no, no,” Tyus-Shaw interrupted. “Mr. Walker, excuse me, Mr. Walker. Please, out of recognize, I wish to mean you can be aware of, Mr. Walker, you might be very smartly privy to the foundations tonight. And you have a prop. That’s not allowed. sir. I ask you to position that prop away.”

After in brief protesting, Walker complied.

At a press conference following the controversy, Reed took to the podium to extoll Walker’s performance, however used to be derailed via questions about the prop:

REPORTER: The prop that he had, that, that badge…

RALPH REED: Yeah

REPORTER: Was once it the Cobb County honorary badge that he obtained…

RALPH REED: I couldn’t make it out. I don’t. I don’t know what it was. I believe it used to be. I believe it was a police badge, but I couldn’t.

REPORTER: He mentioned it was once his.

RALPH REED: I couldn’t see it from the place I was once. So I in reality don’t be aware of.

REPORTER: Are you able to to find out. He mentioned it was his, was it the Cobb County one?

RALPH REED: Well, I couldn’t see it from where I was, so I will’t actually discuss to what I was once.

REPORTER: So what will have to we name it, a prop? Or used to be it his badge?

RALPH REED: I don’t recognize as a result of I couldn’t see it. I heard the lady ask him to place it away, he put it away, however I couldn’t see what it was.

Watch above via Fox 5 Atlanta.

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