Appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler accepted an endorsement on Thursday from Marjorie Greene, the QAnon supporter who is the party’s nominee in Georgia’s safely red 14th Congressional District, in the Nov. 3 special election all-party Senate primary.
Unsurprisingly, Loeffler wasn’t remotely bothered by Greene’s ties to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory that the FBI views as a potential domestic terror threat. “No one in Georgia cares about this QAnon business,” the senator said, “It’s something that fake news is going to continue to bring up and ignore antifa and the violence promoted across this country.”
And if Loeffler was at all put off by Greene’s own litany of racist, Islamophobic, and anti-Semitic rantings, or her unfounded belief that “children should not wear masks” because they are "unhealthy for their psychological, emotional, and educational growth," she didn’t show it either. Believe it or not, it was only last year that Republicans viewed Loeffler as someone who could win back the suburban voters whom Trump had driven out of the party.
Several recent polls show pastor Raphael Warnock, the favored candidate of national Democrats, taking first place next month as Loeffler and fellow Republican Rep. Doug Collins are locked in a competitive contest for the second spot in the all-but-assured January runoff. Both Loeffler and Collins have been aggressively courting the far-right, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Collins also tried to earn Greene’s endorsement.
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