“Owning the libs doesn’t mean giving them two free seats in the Senate,” Trump 2020 national press secretary Hogan Gidley told Fox & Friends Weekend on Sunday, two days before the second round of the Georgia election, which will decide which party controls the Senate.
“We have to ensure that Republicans maintain control of the Senate so that any radical agenda on the left cannot come and destroy this country and remake it in the image of some socialist nation, which is exactly what the Democrats are promising to do,” he said. Gidley.
Both Georgia Senate seats – and camera control – will be up for grabs on Tuesday, when Senator Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., Faces opponent Raphael Warnock and Senator David Perdue, R-Ga., Faces Jon Ossoff.
“Both Ossoff and Warnock are making promises to not only embrace and adopt the Green New Deal, which would destroy our economy, but would also make us less secure on the global stage by relying on other nations for our energy,” said Gidley on Sunday.
“They want to open our borders. They want to make Puerto Rico a state, DC a state, to pack the court, all the items on the agenda that were radical from the start that were exposed, they are embracing and promising to do.”
He went on to say that President Trump will therefore campaign in Georgia on Monday for Republican senators and “gather his supporters and say, ‘Guys, we’re still looking at what happened in this re-election campaign for me. No’ worry about it. What you need to be sure to do and focus on is getting votes for Kelly Loeffler and Perdue to make sure we control the Senate. ‘”
“I think it is a very good message and it will work in the state of Georgia,” continued Gidley.
When Trump gave his opinion on the 2017 dispute, calling Ossoff a “superliberal democrat” who wanted to “protect criminals, allow illegal immigration and raise taxes”, Ossoff replied that the president was “misinformed”.
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“I am focused on bringing renewed leadership, accountability and bipartisan problem solving to Washington to cut unnecessary spending and expand the economy from the Atlanta metropolitan area to South Silicon Valley,” said Ossoff.
Ossoff distanced himself from the national Democratic Party’s shift to the left at the time. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Ossoff “often tried to avoid nationalizing that campaign for fear of losing moderate voters”.
He said he would not support any tax increases, even for the rich. “I do not support any increase in income tax rates,” he said.
Last month, Loeffler painted the second round of the January 5 election against Warnock as a battle against socialism during an interview with Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures.
Loeffler linked his opponent to ideas promoted by the most progressive wing of the Democratic Party, including cutting funds for police departments and the so-called New Green Deal. She also linked Warnock to former Cuban strongman Fidel Castro.
In 1995, Warnock was a youth pastor at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, where Castro made a speech during a trip to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly. Warnock’s campaign claims he played no role in the decision to host Fidel.
On Sunday, Loeffler also warned that Democratic victories in his state’s run-off elections will spell a radical agenda that will dramatically change life in the U.S.
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Republicans currently hold 50 seats against 48 for Democrats. If Democrats occupy both seats, they will take control of the upper house, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris voting to break the tie.
Fox News’s Morgan Phillips, Ronn Blitzer and Andrew O’Reilly contributed to this report.