Georgia GOP leaders are very concerned about the race for the seat currently occupied by appointed incumbent Senator Loeffler (R-GA) and Rep Doug Collins (R-GA):
And this week, Sen. Kelly Loeffler took her move to the right to a new level: Touting the endorsement of a controversial House candidate from Georgia who has promoted the QAnon conspiracy and had been denounced by other Republicans before winning the GOP nomination in her race for making bigoted and racist comments.
“No one in Georgia cares about the QAnon business,” Loeffler told reporters defiantly, after pulling up to the event in a Humvee and sporting a baseball cap, with congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene by her side. “This is something the fake news is gonna continue to bring up — and ignore Antifa.”
Loeffler, an appointed senator and one of the richest in Congress, has been in a race to the right with GOP Rep. Doug Collins, an intraparty battle that has prompted deep Republican concerns that it could splinter the vote and help Democrats sweep Georgia and take the Senate majority.
It’s a scenario that GOP leaders have been privately fearing for months — and one they had sought to avoid at the beginning of the year. In private, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had counseled his top lieutenants and even President Donald Trump to ensure the party would unite behind one candidate and avoid a messy internecine battle that could imperil the crucial Senate seat, multiple GOP sources told CNN. [CNN/Politics]
And, while I expect the internecine battle to get even worse as a consequence of the call-them-liberals-and-eat-them culture currently dominant in the GOP, as I’ve previously discussed, I see no mention of the other possible effect of the two candidates’ frantic run to the right:
How many Georgia Republicans will finally have had enough and walked away?
That alienation may be the real pivot upon which Pastor Warnock’s campaign will turn, the math that may have been missed. From QAnon to their intimate clasp to Trump’s campaign genitals, some will love it, but others may be disgusted.
All Warnock has to offer is his stock in trade: moral leadership.
I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that, absent any unexpected developments, Warnock may win outright in November, much to the shock of the two GOP candidates.
