Democrats in Georgia Runoffs Bring in Record Haul (msn.com)
ATLANTA — The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock and Jon Ossoff, the Democratic challengers in the Senate runoffs in Georgia, have each raised more than $100 million since October — enormous sums that surpassed their Republican opponents by a significant margin and underscored Democrats’ confidence after recent gains the party has made in the state and their hopes that they might capture the Senate.
The Democrats’ haul was powered in large part by a flurry of smaller donations collected from across the country, filings show, with nearly half of the funds coming from people who donated less than $200.
Senator Kelly Loeffler was the only candidate in the race who donated to her own campaign. For Mr. Perdue and Ms. Loeffler, the smaller donations accounted for less than 30 percent of what they raised.
The Republicans have largely homed in on Mr. Warnock, with Ms. Loeffler calling him a “radical liberal” more than a dozen times in a recent televised debate. Her campaign has also circulated select quotations from his more than two decades of sermons, including an instance where he said “nobody can serve God and the military,” a theme that has roots in biblical passages.
A coalition of African-American pastors issued an open letter to Ms. Loeffler last week condemning her campaign for what they saw as an attack on the Black church. Political observers in Georgia have also argued that she has damaged the relationship Republicans had fostered with Ebenezer, the congregation that was once led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
ATLANTA — The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock and Jon Ossoff, the Democratic challengers in the Senate runoffs in Georgia, have each raised more than $100 million since October — enormous sums that surpassed their Republican opponents by a significant margin and underscored Democrats’ confidence after recent gains the party has made in the state and their hopes that they might capture the Senate.
The Democrats’ haul was powered in large part by a flurry of smaller donations collected from across the country, filings show, with nearly half of the funds coming from people who donated less than $200.
Senator Kelly Loeffler was the only candidate in the race who donated to her own campaign. For Mr. Perdue and Ms. Loeffler, the smaller donations accounted for less than 30 percent of what they raised.
The Republicans have largely homed in on Mr. Warnock, with Ms. Loeffler calling him a “radical liberal” more than a dozen times in a recent televised debate. Her campaign has also circulated select quotations from his more than two decades of sermons, including an instance where he said “nobody can serve God and the military,” a theme that has roots in biblical passages.
A coalition of African-American pastors issued an open letter to Ms. Loeffler last week condemning her campaign for what they saw as an attack on the Black church. Political observers in Georgia have also argued that she has damaged the relationship Republicans had fostered with Ebenezer, the congregation that was once led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.