Tag Archives: Kelly Loeffler

CNN reports: President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced former Sen. Kelly Loeffler as his pick to lead the Small Business Administration. Loeffler, who briefly represented Georgia in the Senate, had fundraised for Trump during the 2024 race and raised several million dollars for his campaign over the summer when she hosted a debate watch party with Republican National Committee Chair …

CNN reports: Trump is planning to offer the role of secretary of agriculture to former Senator Kelly Loeffler, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported on Friday. Loeffler is expected to visit Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate later in the day. Loeffler served as a senator from Georgia between 2020 and 2021, following the resignation of Johnny Isakson over health issues. She then lost the …

Atlanta’s NBC affiliate reports: Former Georgia U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler has been chosen to help lead President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration efforts, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Inaugural committees are not bound by federal campaign contribution limits, so it’s an opportunity for donors and corporate interests to express their unlimited support for the second Trump administration. Trump’s first …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: A month before the conservative firebrand was sworn into the U.S. House, Greene asked Loeffler to talk “about a plan we are developing on how to vote on the electoral college votes on Jan 6th.” “I need a Senator!” Greene wrote on Dec. 2, 2020, “And I think this is a major help for you to …

The Guardian reports: The WNBA and the NBA’s board of governors unanimously approved the sale of the Atlanta Dream on Friday, ending defeated Republican senator Kelly Loeffler’s tumultuous stint as a WNBA owner. “With the unanimous WNBA and NBA votes, today marks a new beginning for the Atlanta Dream organization and we are very pleased to welcome Larry Gottesdiener and …

Fox News reports: Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler is starting a voter registration and outreach group called “Greater Georgia,” in her first major public move since losing her Senate seat to Democrat Raphael Warnock in a Jan. 6 runoff. Loeffler’s group will mirror some of the functions of “Fair Fight,” the Stacey Abrams-affiliated group that many Democrats credit with the significant …

After appearing at a Trump rally just two days ago, tonight soon to be ex-Sen. Kelly Loeffler announced that in light of today’s events, she will no longer object to certifying the Electoral College. Other GOP senators, including Steve Daines and James Lankford, are dropping their objections as well. It’s possible that all this performative bullshit will fall away entirely …

Fox News reports: “Elections are the bedrock of our democracy and the American people deserve to be 100% confident in our election systems and its outcomes. But right now, tens of millions of Americans have real concerns about the way in which the November Presidential election was conducted—and I share their concerns,” Loeffler said in a statement. “The American people …

The Hill reports: President Trump said in a tweet early Sunday that he will return to Georgia one day before two Senate runoffs in January that will determine control of the upper chamber. At a rally for Republican Georgia Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in Valdosta earlier this month, a defiant Trump insisted that the election was “rigged” against …

The Hill reports: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Friday she’s reintroducing a bill to prohibit lawmakers from trading stocks as Democrats look to make the issue a key aspect of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs. The reintroduction of the bill by Warren and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) coincides with scrutiny Georgia Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R) and David Perdue (R) are facing …

Just in from Bend The Arc: A newly-unearthed photo of Sen. Kelly Loeffler with yet another leader of a Georgia white supremacist group undermines Loeffler’s claim that she didn’t know the former KKK leader who heads the organization after she posed for a photo with him at a recent campaign event. Although Loeffler denied knowing former KKK leader Chester Doles, …

The Washington Post reports: The Georgia Democratic Party on Wednesday criticized Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) for refusing to acknowledge Biden’s victory, one day after Mitch McConnell congratulated Biden. Georgia Democratic Party Chair Nikema Williams said Loeffler “must end her attacks on our democracy and join fellow members of her own party in accepting that outcome.” Earlier Wednesday, after voting early …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s campaign strongly condemned a photo circulating on social media of her posing with a longtime white supremacist taken at an event in Dawsonville on Friday. The photo shows Loeffler smiling from beneath an American flag ball cap next to Chester Doles, a longtime white supremacist who spent decades in the Ku Klux Klan …

Roll Call reports: Georgia Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler joined Hill Republicans in bucking President Donald Trump on Friday, voting to pass a defense policy bill that the president has been working for weeks to scuttle. The 84-13 vote on the annual National Defense Authorization Act forced every Republican in Congress to choose between their loyalty to the president …

The Associated Press reports: Back in Georgia to rally electoral support for the state’s two Republican senators, Vice President Mike Pence told voters in Augusta on Thursday that returning the incumbents to Washington would secure a GOP Senate and help preserve what he characterized as the successes of the Trump administration. “We need to send them back because the Republican …

Mediaite report: Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood floated a conspiracy that the death of Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R-GA) daughter’s boyfriend was “planned” — daring his followers to “search for the truth.” Replying to a post from Wood, which claimed there was voter fraud in the 2020 Election, a Twitter user piled on with more baseless and shocking theories. “This is much …

Reuters reports: Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler danced around questions about whether President Donald Trump lost the Nov. 3 election in a debate with her Democratic challenger on Sunday before two Georgia runoffs that will decide control of the U.S. Senate. As the debate began, Loeffler sidestepped a question about whether she agreed with Trump’s baseless claims that last month’s election …

The Associated Press reports: Candidates for one of two U.S. Senate seats still hanging in the balance will face off in a debate that is drawing strong interest beyond Georgia. That is because the seat — now held by incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler and being challenged by Democrat Raphael Warnock — is one of two that will tip control of …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: One of Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s campaign staffers was killed Friday in a multi-vehicle crash in South Georgia, forcing her and Gov. Brian Kemp to cancel their plans to join Vice President Mike Pence in Savannah for a rally. Harrison Deal, a young aide for Loeffler and a former intern for Sen. David Perdue, was also …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: One of Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s campaign staffers died Friday, forcing her to cancel her plans to join Vice President Mike Pence in Savannah for a rally. Loeffler’s communications director issued a statement about Harrison Deal, who was also a close family friend of Gov. Brian Kemp and his family. Kemp and his wife also canceled …