CUMMING, G. the hardest and most personal attacks seen so far in this already fierce race.
At a campaign stopping on Saturday morning in Cumming, a city on the conservative northern suburbs of Atlanta, Loeffler accused Warnock of being involved in child abuse, domestic abuse – he hides, he will not answer the questions. ‘
The line cheered the crowd – and one man, the famous Trump-era refrain reserved for the most hated political figures: “Lock him up!”
The senator then said that ‘Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer’ contributed to Warnock’s campaign. “I do not think it is coincidental,” she added. Loeffler probably referred to David Boies, the prominent lawyer Weinstein previously represented. According to federal records, Boies donated to a PAC that supports the Democrats of Georgia, but not specifically to Warnock’s campaign.
During the blast charge, Loeffler referred to a number of events that described the GOP’s attempt to attack Warnock’s character.
The one is an incident in March in which police were called after a dispute between Warnock and his wife while they were divorcing. Warnock’s ex-wife claimed he drove her car over her foot; custom footage from the police body camera tells her that Warnock was a ‘great actor’. The line is shown in an ad blitz attack, funded by Loeffler’s GOP allies, which flooded Georgia’s airwaves before the election.
Warnock denied any wrongdoing and no charges were filed after the incident. The Atlanta Journal Constitution on Dec. 30 reported that Atlanta police officers, according to hours of body camera footage, expressed doubts that Warnock had injured his wife. Ouleye Warnock to the AJC that she feels the incident has no place in the Senate election.
The second is an incident in 2002 in a Maryland summer camp run by Warnock’s then-church in Baltimore, in which he and a fellow church leader were arrested after they interrupted an investigation by police into allegations of abuse in the camp. Warnock said at the time that he was blocking police from talking to campers without the child advocates being there; Maryland police later accused him of collaborating with the investigation, calling the arrest a “miscommunication.” Last week, the story resurfaced when a former camper claimed counselors had punished him by forcing him to sleep outside and throw urine at him.
Last week, after Loeffler said that Warnock “must answer” for what happened, Warnock’s campaign to the AJC, “No matter how many lies Senator Loeffler tells, the facts are the same: Reverend Warnock assisted law enforcement with their investigation and they thanked him.”
In response to Loeffler’s allegations, a Warnock spokesman said the senator “spent her entire campaign trying to convict Reverend Warnock and divide Georgians.”
“Georgians see through Kelly Loeffler’s dishonest campaign, and they know she spent a lot more time on herself during her years in the Senate than looking after them,” the spokeswoman said.
During most of the two-month run-off campaign, the GOP focused on portraying Warnock as a dangerous, far-left radical by broadcasting excerpts from his previous sermons. Many Democrats, including the candidates themselves, have called the ads racist in the way they play in certain tropics.
But many Republican voters in Georgia cannot think of the upcoming election without thinking of the November 3 election. President Trump has blamed Georgia, claiming without any evidence that the state’s election was fraudulent and hopelessly corrupt. The fantasy took root in the GOP base, and top leaders – including Trump – urged Georgia voters to vote in the January 5 election, even though they believe the whole system is rotten.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined Loeffler on Saturday, who appeared at the rally shortly before his Senate office announced that he would lead a group of GOP senators to protest Biden’s victory when the Senate convened to confirm results of the election college. on January 6th. In a joint statement, the senators claim that the 2020 election suffered from ‘unprecedented’ voter fraud, but that they could not provide any specific evidence for it, just as Trump’s legal team failed to do their series of failures. not. attempts to block the election in court.
In the crowd on the flat bed of a pickup truck, Cruz voiced unfounded allegations that the Democrats stole the 2020 election – accusing them of doing the same for Georgia.
‘Are they going to try to steal it? Yes, ”Cruz said. “But I’ll tell you what we’re going to do – we’ll win by a large margin so no one steals the state of Georgia.”