Episode 1315
Kelly Loeffler
Tue, 2020-Dec-08 01:11 UTC
Length - 3:10
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With 379,913 views on Monday, 7 December 2020 our article of the day is Kelly Loeffler.
Kelly Lynn Loeffler (; born November 27, 1970) is an American businesswoman and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Georgia since 2020. A Republican, she was previously chief executive officer (CEO) of Bakkt, a subsidiary of commodity and financial service provider Intercontinental Exchange owned by her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher. She co-owns the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Brian Kemp, the Republican Governor of Georgia, appointed Loeffler to the United States Senate in December 2019 after Senator Johnny Isakson resigned for health reasons. Loeffler is running in the 2020 Georgia U. S. Senate special election, which will fill the Senate seat until Georgia's regularly scheduled November 2022 election. She finished second in the November 3 election, advancing to a runoff with Democrat Raphael Warnock scheduled for January 5, 2021. Loeffler has strongly aligned herself to President Donald Trump and touted her "100 percent Trump voting record" during the campaign. She is linked to the 2020 Congressional insider trading scandal after selling stock in companies vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic valued at several million dollars the same day she attended a private briefing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions on the disease, before the public had been alerted to its severity. The Senate Ethics Committee cleared her of wrongdoing in this incident. After the November 2020 election, Loeffler and fellow senator David Perdue claimed without evidence that there had been "failures" in the election, and called for the resignation of Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican. There was no evidence of wrongdoing in connection with the election. Raffensperger rejected the calls for his resignation. According to Politico, Loeffler repeated Trump's baseless claims of fraud because she wanted the support of Trump and his core voters in the January runoff.
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For the full current version of the article, see Kelly Loeffler on Wikipedia.
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