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Despite her recent loss, her brand of politics isn’t going anywhere (John Bazemore/AP; iStock; Lily illustration) Anne Branigin
Jan. 15, 2021
Sen. Kelly Loeffler was far from the only conservative to lean on the anger of White voters during the 2020 election, but for a moment, she was among the loudest.
Her recent loss in Georgia’s Senate runoffs is disappointing for Republicans on many levels, the most obvious being that her defeat, along with fellow Sen. David Perdue’s, cost their party control of the Senate. But unlike Perdue, Loeffler’s ascent to power was, in and of itself, a gamble. The rationale of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp for tapping Loeffler, a political novice with a Wall Street background, to replace Sen. Johnny Isakson in late 2019 was aimed at keeping educated, suburban White women believed to be turned off by Trump’s rhetoric from jumping ship.