A.G. Gancarski
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio issued an 11th hour plea with Georgia voters to “prevent the socialist onslaught” and vote for two Republicans in Tuesday’s Senate runoffs.
The Senator, in an op-ed released Monday on FoxNews.com, made the case for reelecting Sen. David Perdue and for electing previously appointed Sen. Kelly Loeffler, in the starkest of all possible terms.
“On January 5th, the entire nation will be watching. If Georgians believe in our democracy and our nation’s institutions, they will reject [Rev. Raphael] Warnock and [Jon] Ossoff. And in so doing, they will give Senate Republicans the power to prevent the socialist onslaught that the radical left is actively planning.”
Rubio added that “Georgia voters are quite literally our nation’s last line of defense in protecting [the] legacy” of the outgoing Donald Trump administration.
If both Republicans lose, the GOP loses the majority, and VP-elect Kamala Harris would be the tiebreaker.
The stakes are high, Rubio said, but the Democrats are so dangerous that even if they weren’t, Peach State voters should be piqued.
“And make no mistake, the two Democratic candidates — Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff — have no business representing any state in Congress. Despite the legacy media’s attempts to bury any negative evidence of their checkered pasts, it’s clear that both Warnock and Ossoff are wholly unqualified to be U.S. Senators. Georgia voters would be right to reject their candidacies outright even if the balance of the Senate wasn’t on the ballot,” the Senator contended.
Rubio has been involved in the Georgia Senate runoffs since the November election, rallying with Republicans Perdue and Loeffler last year. He has also fundraised for his own political efforts, which include what will be a contentious reelection in 2022, while claiming that those efforts were for the current race.
The Senator’s oped is just part of an action-packed day of programming in the Peach State.
Vice President Mike Pence will rally at a church at noon.
President-elect Joe Biden will be in the state later in the afternoon for an event.
And President Donald Trump will close out the day with an evening rally in Dalton.
