COVID And Corruption Helped Sink Loeffler And Perdue

 

     Kelly Loeffler, to begin with, was an easy target for losing the Georgia runoff. Unlike Perdue, she was not elected, as Governor Kemp appointed her in 2020. However, what she and Perdue did and did not do, as well as what Kemp himself did, killed both of their chances for reelection.

     David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler were among the Republicans who allowed 400,000 Americans to die of coronavirus in the name of vague notions of independence. Their stories, however, were particularly heinous. Unlike the rest of their colleagues, the two, both of whom received their briefings in January of 2020, used their knowledge to rearrange their stock portfolios while denying the virus was a threat to the public.

     Kemp's election in 2018 was even more corrupt. At the time, he was the sitting Georgia secretary of state. He purged almost 700,000 legitimate votes from primarily-black urban areas and wound up "winning" by a slim 50,000 votes. In 2020, with control of the federal government in their hands, Georgians who had been disenfranchised voted and made sure every friend and friend of a friend voted, and, unlike Kemp, Georgia's current secretary of state is not a corrupt man.