“Flashing the #WhitePower sign on the campaign trail in #Georgia,” actress Debra Messing wrote in a tweet which has since been deleted. “Is this what you want #Georgia? You voted AGAINST white supremacy in Nov & we need you to do it ONE MORE TIME to fire this guy and #KKKKelly.”
Messing appeared to base the accusation on a post by “Blue Georgia,” which accused Perdue of making the racist gesture at a rally.
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The claim was repeated by journalist Judd Legum, who stated Perdue should “explain why he is making a white power sign” in a post on Twitter.
However, the GOP activist who took the photo said that in actuality it depicts Perdue and two campaign volunteers celebrating the milestone of having reached 3,000 voters.
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“Jon Ossoff and his allies are so desperate to hurt Senator Perdue that they’re trying to smear the reputations of innocent teenagers,” said Jasper Preston, the GOP activist who took the photo. “I took this picture. I’m African-American. The boys in the picture are Native American. They are celebrating reaching 3,000 voter contacts - nothing about white supremacy!”
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Preston went on to accuse people on the left of trying to “ruin the lives of young conservatives.”
“It’s sad the left is perfectly willing to try to ruin the lives of young conservatives in order to advance their agenda,” Preston claimed.
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The Senate runoff races in Georgia that will decide party control of the Senate have been filled with false and misleading claims and attacks between candidates, and with five days left the trend shows no sign of slowing.
When asked Wednesday about recent remarks Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler made against her Democratic opponent, Rev. Raphael Warnock, Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff went on the offensive, claiming Loeffler was campaigning with a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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"[H]here's the bottom line, Kelly Loeffler has been campaigning with a klansman," Ossoff told Fox News Wednesday. "Kelly Loeffler has been campaigning with a klansman," he repeated, "and so she is stooping to these vicious personal attacks to distract from the fact that she's been campaigning with a former member of the Ku Klux Klan."
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Ossoff tweeted the video from Fox News, writing again that "Kelly Loeffler campaigned with a klansman."
Along with incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, Perdue is locked in a closely contested runoff election that will decide the fate of the Senate majority. Republicans currently hold a 50-48 advantage, needing just one of the two races to maintain their majority.
Both Messing and Legum have yet to respond to the Washington Examiner's requests for comment.
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