Kelly Loeffler at a campaign stop on 13 December. (Jessica McGowan/Getty)
Georgia Republican Kelly Loeffler insists she had “no idea” who former Ku Klux Klan leader and neo-Nazi Chester Doles was when she took a photo with him at a campaign event on Friday.
Doles spent decades as an organiser of the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazi National Alliance and served a felony sentence for almost beating a Black man to death in 1993.
He marched with a racist skinhead gang in 2017 at the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one person dead and 28 injured.
On 11 December, he posed for a smiling picture with Loeffler, the multi-millionaire Republican senator who is fighting to retain her seat in the high-stakes Georgia run-off.