Republicans seek to batter Warnock ahead of Georgia runoff

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Republicans are launching an all-out assault on Democrat Raphael Warnockahead of the January Senate runoff in Georgia, surfacing months of opposition research that went largely unused leading up to last week’s general election.

Warnock’s opponent, Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), has already put more than $1 million behind two new attack ads that seek to tie Warnock to the so-called “radical left” and accuse him of celebrating “anti-American hatred.”

Other Senate Republicans have joined in on the attacks, hyperaware that the runoff between Warnock and Loeffler will play a critical role in determining party control of the upper chamber in 2021 and beyond. Continue reading.