On Wednesday morning, Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff turned to Fox News, taking the opportunity of an impromptu live interview to leave behind his Republican opponent, Sen. David Perdue (R-GA ) and Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), who is participating in another Senate race.
During a campaign stop in Marietta, Georgia, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy addressed Ossoff, who let the Democrat know they were live and if he would be willing to ask a few questions.
Doocy first asked the 33-year-old candidate to talk about what “relevant experience” he had in fulfilling his promises as a senator, prompting Ossoff to briefly promote his journalistic career in “fighting the injustice, exposing war crimes and corruption “. ”Before focusing his attention on Perdue and Loeffler.
“Right now we have a crisis of corruption in American politics and, as we live in Fox, let me take this opportunity to address Fox’s audience directly,” he stated. “We have two U.S. senators in Georgia who have blatantly used their positions to get rich.”
Loeffler and Perdue are two of the richest members of the Senate and both have been subjected to intense scrutiny over their broad securities portfolios and personal financial relationships while in office. Meanwhile, Democrats have flooded the state with announcements that attacked the two Republicans over investigations into their business activities.
After Ossoff presented his campaign to Fox News viewers, Doocy jumped in to ask him about Loeffler’s latest attacks on his Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock, and filed charges around a children’s camp that Warnock used to run. .
“Do you have any concerns that allegations of crimes against the Rev. Warnock could be a problem for the Democratic ticket next week?” pressed the Fox News correspondent.
“None at all,” Ossoff insisted. “The Rev. Warnock addressed this issue a year ago and here is the end result: Kelly Loeffler has been campaigning with a klansman. Kelly Loeffler has been campaigning with a klansman. “
The Senate hopeful referred to Loeffler recently posing for a photo of the campaign event with Chester Doles, a neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan member who marched at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. Loeffler’s campaign, meanwhile, quickly distanced itself from Doles, saying the senator “had no idea who he was” and would have “expelled him immediately” if he had known.
“So he leans in the face of these cruel personal attacks to distract himself from the fact that he has been campaigning with a former member of the Ku Klux Klan,” Ossoff concluded. “We deserve better than that.”