Sen. Kelly Loeffler accused one of her runoff election opponents of “hiding” his radical socialist views behind “puppies and pizza.”
During an interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo, Loeffler called Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections that will determine which party clinches control of the Senate as “the only other race that matters right now.” She derided Democrat Rev. Raphel Warnock as a “radical” and warned that he would help the Democratic Party “change American into a radical socialist country.”
“We are the firewall to socialism, to stopping socialism in America right here in Georgia, and we’re going to do that,” Loeffler said. “Schumer has his radical change agent in Raphael Warnock in my race. He has radical views from the pulpit — he’s someone that attacked our police officers, calling them gangsters, thugs, bullies, and a threat to our children.”
“Warnock is running ads with puppies in them to distract from his radical views,” Loeffler continued. “He’s welcomed Fidel Castro into his church, a murderous dictator, a Marxist. I mean, Raphael Warnock has espoused Marxism and socialism and wants to raise our taxes to expand the government to implement the green new deal, to socialize our medicine, to open our borders, to defund the police. This is what he’s hiding from with his puppies and his pizza in his ads, and I’m making sure that Georgians understand that he is radical, he’s backed by radical groups that want to defund the police and change our country forever.”
Warnock has pushed back on similar attacks recently, saying they are “trying to scare people by taking things I’ve said out of context from over 25 years of being a pastor,” according to the Associated Press.
Loeffler and fellow Sen. David Purdue formed a “unity ticket” ahead of the January runoffs, campaigning heavily on the importance in their eyes of the GOP retaining control of the Senate. The two have appeared in videos together, released joint statements, and even held joint rallies outside of Atlanta, according to NBC News.
Warnock and fellow Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff responded in kind, coming together for a joint rally in Marietta, Georgia.
Should Warnock and Ossoff win both races, they would shift control of the Senate to a 50-50 tie, leaving Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to break any ties on legislation.
