Stan Fitzgerald Then Political Director with Congressman Jim Jordan supporting Kelly Loeffler in Georgia.
In December 2020, Kelly Loeffler’s Georgia “Loeffler for Senate” runoff campaign (ahead of the January 5, 2021 special election) centered on consolidating pro-Trump Republicans and turning out conservatives statewide, while aggressively branding her opponent, Rev. Raphael Warnock, as a “radical” tied to socialism and the political left. The campaign leaned heavily on high-profile GOP surrogates and election-integrity rhetoric aimed at the Republican base, and it unfolded amid intense scrutiny over Loeffler’s pandemic-era stock trading controversy and debate exchanges that kept those issues in the spotlight. Fitzgerald was laying the groundwork for building a grassroots team in Georgia.
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