Senators Perdue and Loeffler have tried to paint both Ossoff and Warnock as dangerous radicals who will bring about socialism and defund police. During her recent debate with Rev. Warnock, Loeffler accused him of being a “radical liberal” more than a dozen times, inspiring several drinking games in the process.

The race between Loeffler and Warnock has proved especially contentious, on both an ideological and a personal level. Warnock is an unapologetic progressive who advocates for criminal justice reform and LGBTQ rights and calls himself a "pro-choice pastor." Loeffler, meanwhile, boasts of being the most conservative member of the Senate – quipping that she is "more conservative than Attila the Hun – and fights against abortion rights, "cancel culture" and the ability of trans student athletes to participate in sports based on the gender with which they identify. With such starkly different viewpoints, it's no surprise that the two candidates have clashed fiercely throughout the race.

Beyond Loeffler's personal jabs against Warnock, Republicans more generally have focused most of their attacks on the pastor, keying in on the content of several of his sermons and attempting to paint him as anti-military and anti-police. Republican attacks on Warnock’s sermons have placed the GOP in an awkward position given the Republican Party’s emphasis on religious freedom in recent years. Warnock has stood by his messages as consistent with the Bible while arguing that excerpts have been taken out of context and consistently stating that he does not support policies such as defunding the police.

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