Senator-elect Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) Weighed in on the riot at the Capitol on Wednesday and said Sen. Kelly Loeffler
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“The president and all those who enabled him, including Kelly Loeffler, who I ran against and who have yet to admit this race, have their hands and their fingerprints on them,” Warnock said on SiriusXM’s The Joe Madison Show.
Loeffler’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.
Warnock’s comments come a few days after he beat Loeffler in the second round of the Senate in Georgia. His win, along with fellow Georgia Democrat Jon Ossof’s victory over Sen. David Perdue
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Loeffler, along with a number of GOP senators led by Sens. Ted Cruz
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Hours after the attack, Loeffler said she abandoned her plans to object to the results and condemned the violence.
“The events that have occurred have forced me to reconsider and I cannot now in good conscience object to the certification of these voters. The violence, lawlessness and siege of the halls of Congress are repugnant and form a direct attack on what my objection was meant to be … to protect the sanctity of the American democratic process, ”Loeffler said.
While Hawley and Cruz condemned the violence on Wednesday, the two Republican senators still voted to object to the Arizona and Pennsylvania election results.
“[Hawley and Cruz], they think of 2024 and this crazy idea that they are somehow appealing to the worst people, that they are calling on this basis, that that gives them a chance, “Warnock said.” So they were willing to sacrifice the nation, sacrificing its most cherished ideals of democracy, the peaceful transfer of power, for their own personal ambition. “
Four people died in the riots on Wednesday, including a woman who was shot and murdered by Capitol Police. The chaos ensued after an organized meeting President Trump
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