{"id":65321,"date":"2021-01-01T09:11:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T14:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=65321"},"modified":"2021-01-01T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T16:40:34","slug":"sen-loeffler-fires-back-after-ossoff-accuses-her-of-campaigning-with-kkk-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-loeffler-fires-back-after-ossoff-accuses-her-of-campaigning-with-kkk-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Loeffler Fires Back After Ossoff Accuses Her of Campaigning with KKK Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-loeffler-fires-back-after-ossoff-accuses-her-of-campaigning-with-kkk-member%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=65321&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia labeled Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff a \u201cpathological liar\u201d over his attempt to claim she campaigned with a member of the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n<p>The latest salvos in the high-stakes battle for Georgia\u2019s two Senate seats in Tuesday\u2019s special election began Wednesday when Ossoff started lobbing accusations at Loeffler. Loeffler is facing Democratic Rev. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/participant-warnock-church-camp-shares-horrifying-abuse-accusations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raphael Warnock<\/a>, while Ossoff is trying to unseat Republican Sen. David Perdue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKelly Loeffler campaigned with a klansman,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/georgia-dems-cant-fund-ossoff-calif-dems-send-jaw-dropping-amount-steal-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ossoff<\/a>\u00a0tweeted Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>His comment, which went viral, apparently refers to a selfie of the senator taken by Chester Doles, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/election\/loeffler-disavows-photo-taken-with-longtime-white-supremacist\/THDEXQYGOFEHNJAYOFNSQCWHZU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FOX News walked up rolling live, and I appreciated the free air time! <\/p>\n<p>Also, Kelly Loeffler campaigned with a klansman. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZlmO0xoFvr\">pic.twitter.com\/ZlmO0xoFvr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Ossoff (@ossoff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ossoff\/status\/1344443912795131908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is stooping to these vicious personal attacks to distract from the fact that she\u2019s been campaigning with a former member of the Ku Klux Klan,\u201d Ossoff said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/12\/31\/georgia-loeffler-ossoff-kkk-attack-453130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe deserve better than that here in Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-takes-off-gloves-warnock-race-slams-dem-brutal-domestic-violence-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loeffler<\/a> said that she did not know who Doles was at the time of the photo and that Doles was later removed from the event where the photo was taken.<\/p>\n<p>She then poured scorn on Ossoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery Georgian knows that Jon Ossoff is a pathological liar. And he\u2019s a trust-fund socialist who\u2019s never had a job, other than through the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d she said, referencing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/georgia-gop-accuses-jon-ossoff-china-pccw-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegations<\/a> that Ossoff did business with a company linked to China\u2019s Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he\u2019s going to bring up lies about who I\u2019m campaigning with, I\u2019m going to talk about the truth about who he\u2019s campaigning with,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s campaigning with Raphael Warnock, who has a past with child abuse and domestic abuse, who has celebrated Jeremiah Wright, Karl Marx, Fidel Castro, James Cone, Louis Farrakhan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s attacked our police, our military. He\u2019s attacked Israel, small businesses and every single Georgian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/31\/politics\/ossoff-loeffler-kkk-fact-check\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN\u2019s<\/a> fact-checker said Ossoff had it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is false. A former member of the KKK took a photo with Loeffler while she was campaigning earlier this month. Loeffler\u2019s campaign said the senator did not know who the man was and would have removed him from the event had she known,\u201d CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not, at all, the same as \u2018campaigning with a klansman,\u2019 as Ossoff claimed. Politicians often take pictures with people they don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKelly had no idea who that was, and if she had she would have kicked him out immediately because we condemn in the most vociferous terms everything that he stands for,\u201d Loeffler campaign spokesman Stephen Lawson said of the photograph in a statement to the Journal-Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared originally on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/12\/sen-loeffler-fires-back-ossoff-accuses-campaigning-kkk-member\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sen. Loeffler Fires Back After Ossoff Accuses Her of Campaigning with KKK Member<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia labeled Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff a \u201cpathological liar\u201d over his attempt to claim she campaigned with a member of the Ku Klux Klan. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}