Newsweek: “Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler was criticized Saturday and Sunday for posing beside a former KKK leader, with less than a month before two runoff elections in the state that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. The picture shows Loeffler smiling beside ring-wing activist Chester Doles. It was reportedly posted to Doles’ social media on Saturday with the caption ‘Kelly Loeffler and I. Save America, stop Socialism.'”
“Doles, who was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan, is a convicted felon with ties to several white supremacist groups, although he claims his current ‘American Patriots USA’ group is free of racism. ‘In 1993, Doles nearly beat a Black man to death. In 2017, he marched in Charlottesville,’ wrote Jewish activism group Bend the Arc in a Saturday night tweet with the picture of Doles and Loeffler. ‘This is who Kelly Loeffler is proudly appealing to.’ Miryam Lipper, the communications director of Jon Ossoff, who is running against Georgia Senator David Perdue, tweeted ‘This is Georgia’s GOP’ on Sunday in response to the photo.”