Headline RoundupJanuary 6th, 2021

Fact Checking the Georgia Senate Runoff Races

Elections, 2020 Election, Georgia Senate Runoffs, US Senate, Facts And Fact Checking, Campaign Rhetoric

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The candidates in Tuesday's pivotal U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia have often criticized their opponents, but haven't always done so based on fact. In general, fact-checking is done more overall by left and center-rated news outlets, and that was reflected in fact-checking around the runoffs. Many of those articles were comprehensive in explaining falsehoods spread by candidates on both sides; some focused specifically on false claims from incumbent Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Fact checks from right-rated sources often concentrated on false, misleading or incomplete claims made by Democrat challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

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'Pathological Liar' Ossoff Flagrantly Smears Kelly Loeffler Ahead of Georgia Runoff

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In a recent impromptu interview with Fox News correspondent Peter Doocey, Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff garnered applause from leftists by turning an inquiry about fellow Democrat Raphael Warnock's serious baggage into a scurrilous attack on Republican Kelly Loeffler. The GOP has been highlighting Warnock's arrest for interfering with a police investigation into alleged child abuse at a camp he ran, as well as video of tearful statements from his ex-wife to police officers who responded to a domestic incident call earlier this year. Rather than addressing the substance of...

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Our fact-checks of the pivotal Georgia Senate runoff races

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Just how effective President-elect Joe Biden will be in getting his policies enacted by Congress rests largely on the outcome of the Senate runoff races in Georgia.

Georgia’s two Republican U.S. senators — David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler — are seeking to keep their seats and preserve the Republicans’ majority in the Senate. Democrats control the U.S. House by a narrow margin.

Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff is seeking to oust Perdue, while the Rev. Raphael Warnock is vying for Loeffler’s seat. (The winner of the Loeffler-Warnock race will serve the...

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FactChecking the Georgia Senate Runoffs

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Two months after Election Day, control of the U.S. Senate in the 117th Congress comes down to two races in Georgia on Jan. 5. None of the four candidates on the ballot garnered 50% of the vote on Nov. 3, which forced separate runoffs.

In one of the contests, Georgia’s senior senator, Republican David Perdue, is defending his seat against Democrat Jon Ossoff, a media executive and investigative journalist, who ran for a House seat in 2017. In the other, Georgia’s junior senator, Republican Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed to...

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