CUMMING, Ga. “With three days to go before the election to decide control of the United States Senate, Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), who has waged a relentless negative campaign against her defiant Democrat, Pastor Raphael Warnock,” , launches the toughest and most personal attacks seen so far in this already heated race.
During a campaign break Saturday morning in Cumming, a city in the conservative suburbs of northern Atlanta, Loeffler accused Warnock of being “involved in child abuse, domestic abuse, hiding, not answering these questions.”
That line generated applause from the crowd, and from a single man, the well-known saying of the Trump era reserved for the most hated political figures: “Block him!”
The senator said then that “Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer” contributed to the Warnock campaign. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence,” he added. Loeffler was probably referring to David Boies, the prominent lawyer who previously represented Weinstein. Buoys has donated to a PAC that supports Georgia Democrats, but not specifically the Warnock campaign, according to federal records.
In making the explosive charges, Loeffler was referring to a couple of events that have defined the Republican Party’s effort to attack Warnock’s character.
One is a March incident in which police were called after a dispute between Warnock and his wife when they were in the process of divorcing. Warnock’s ex-wife alleged that he hit her on the foot with her car; recently released police body camera images capture her telling officers that Warnock was a “great actor.” This line has emerged in a bombing raid, funded by Loeffler’s GOP allies, that was flooding Georgia’s waves before the election.
Warnock has denied any offense and no charges were filed after the incident. He Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Dec. 30 that, according to hours of body camera footage, Atlanta police officers expressed doubt that Warnock had injured his wife. Ouleye Warnock he said al AJC who felt the incident had no place in the Senate elections.
The second is a 2002 incident at a Maryland summer camp run by the then Warnock Church in Baltimore, in which he and another church leader were arrested after interrupting a police investigation into Allegations of abuse in the field. Warnock said at the time that he was blocking police from talking to campers without the children’s lawyers; Maryland police later credited him with collaborating with the investigation and called the arrest “poor communication.” Last week, the story resurfaced when a former camper alleged that councilors punished him by forcing him to sleep outside and throwing urine at him.
Last week, after Loeffler said Warnock “needs to respond” to what happened, Warnock’s campaign told AJC“No matter how many lies Senator Loeffler tells, the facts are the same: the Rev. Warnock was helpful to law enforcement with his investigation and they thanked him.”
In response to Loeffler’s claims, a Warnock spokesman said the senator “has spent his entire campaign lying about the Rev. Warnock and trying to divide the Georgians.”
“Georgians see Kelly Loeffler’s dishonest campaign and know that during her tenure in the Senate she has spent much more time looking for herself than looking at them,” the spokesman said.
For most of the two-month runoff campaign, the Republican Party has focused on painting Warnock as a dangerous far-left radical emitting excerpts from his past sermons. Many Democrats, including the candidates themselves, have called these ads racist in terms of how they play certain troops.
But many Republican voters in Georgia can’t think about the upcoming election without stopping in the Nov. 3 election. President Trump has set his sights on Georgia, claiming without any evidence that the state election was fraudulently fraudulent and corrupt. This fantasy has taken root in the Republican Party base, and top leaders, including Trump, have urged Georgia voters to vote in the Jan. 5 election, even if they believe the entire system is rotten.
On Saturday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined Loeffler, who appeared at the rally shortly before his Senate office announced he would lead a group of Republican Party senators to oppose Biden’s victory. when the Senate meets to certify the results of the Electoral College. on Jan. 6, in a joint statement, senators claimed that the 2020 election suffered “unprecedented” election fraud, but could not produce any specific evidence, as Trump’s legal team has failed to do in his series of problems attempts to overthrow the elections in the courts.
In statements to the crowd that was on the plate of a van, Cruz made unfounded accusations that Democrats stole the 2020 election and accused them of planning to do the same for Georgia’s runoff.
“Will they try to steal it? Yes, ”said Cruz. “But I will tell you what we will do: we will win by a margin large enough that no one will steal the state of Georgia.”