GA-SEN: Loeffler touts endorsement from House candidate who praised QAnon conspiracy theory

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Struggling to coalesce GOP support in next month's special election in Georgia, appointed Sen. Kelly Loeffler celebrated an endorsement Thursday from Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversial congressional candidate who has embraced elements of the QAnon conspiracy theory and has a history of making racist and bigoted comments.

The endorsement comes amid Loeffler's hard tack to the right in an effort to win over the GOP base voters in her race against GOP Rep. Doug Collins. The two are among the 20 candidates on the ballot in the special Senate election — and, according to the polls, they are fighting for one spot in a likely runoff next January against Democrat Raphael Warnock.

Republican leaders in the House denounced Greene over the summer after POLITICO reported on videos in which she made a series of racist and derogatory statements. But the national party made little effort to stop her before the August runoff, which Greene won.

Greene's Democratic opponent in the deep-red northwest Georgia district has dropped out, and Republican leaders in the House now say they intend to seat her on committees when she comes to Washington next year.




https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/15/kelly-loeffler-marjorie-taylor-greene-endorsement-429635

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. Margie (The Kook) Greene: Too nutty for Newt's old district.

You've got to be an Olympic-class screwball to manage that

[Buckeyeblue]

2. In some ways I bet it irks Loeffler to have to acknowledge Greene

Who she probably considers white trash and beneath her socially. But the endorsements are not exactly flying in for her.