Several Democrat political action committees are erecting billboards in Georgia urging Republicans not to vote in the upcoming Senate runoffs.
Really American PAC, one of the committees, has placed two versions around Georgia.
One says that Sens. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) “got RICH” while “Georgians got SICK.”
Another alleged the senators “didn’t deliver for” President Donald Trump. “DON’T deliver for them,” it added.
The PAC said nine of the billboards went up on Monday and asked for more donations so they could put up more.
“We’re blanketing Georgia with our billboards to remind Georgians, among other things, that their Senators got rich while Georgians suffered,” it said in a statement.
A second committee, the Mad Dog PAC, was sending a billboard truck to Atlanta on Tuesday, its head said. The billboard uses similar phrases as one of Really American PAC’s billboards.
Loeffler’s campaign spokesman Stephen Lawson told The Epoch Times via email: “Georgia Republicans aren’t fooled by Democrats’ disgustingly dirty tricks. Every Republican in this state knows the stakes of this race because it will decide the future of our country, and that’s why everyone is getting to the polls to vote for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.”
A spokesperson for Perdue’s campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff, right, and Raphael Warnock campaign in Marietta, Ga., on Nov. 15, 2020. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)
The notion of sitting out the Jan. 5, 2021, runoffs has been criticized by leading Republicans, who are urging voters to cast their votes with control of the Senate up for grabs.
Republicans have 50 Senate seats in the next Congress. They’ll retain control unless Democrats win both runoffs and the White House. Vice presidents can cast tiebreaking votes in the Senate.
Loeffler is facing Atlanta pastor Raphael Warnock and Perdue is vying against filmmaker Jon Ossoff. The runoffs were triggered because no candidate won a majority of the vote in the Nov. 3 elections.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel over the weekend urged voters at a committee event to turn out for the runoffs.
“It’s not decided. This is the key,” she said.
“So if you lose your faith and you don’t vote and people walk away, that will decide it.”
Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, took to social media last month to call the idea of not voting “nonsense.”
“We need ALL of our people coming out to vote for Kelly & David,” he wrote. Trump said forgoing voting would be “playing right into the hands of some very sick people.”
Loeffler sounded a similar message on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“Look, everything’s at stake in this election. The future of our country is on the ballot on January 5th right here in Georgia. We know what the stakes are,” she said.
“We know that if Chuck Schumer gets his way and says ‘now we take Georgia, then we change America,’ they would fundamentally and radically change America for the worst. We are not going to let that happen.”
