Kelly Loeffler
Bio | Kelly Loeffler was the CEO of Bakkt before being appointed by Georgia’s governor to fill Senator Isakson’s seat after he resigned from the position for health-related reasons in 2019. |
Status and Position | Current US Senator of Georgia |
Political Party and Jurisdiction | Republican, Georgia |
Elections | Election Jurisdiction | Started Campaign | Campaign Status | Poll Rankings (of the vote) |
| 2020 Senate Election Georgia 2 | Georgia 2 | Yes | Running | 24.0% |
Campaign Financing | Loeffler is facing hard times after the controversial stock transactions she made and left people wondering if she is abusing her power as a senator to gain financial benefits. The decline in poll numbers for Georgia's senator forced her to lean on her wealth to finance her campaign. |
Voting Rights | Loeffler has made no clear view or stance on this issue. |
Opinions on Issues
Issues | Stance | Summary |
| Universal Healthcare | Unknown | Loeffler has made no clear view on Universal Healthcare. Loeffler has made no clear view on Universal Healthcare |
| Socialized Healthcare | For | Loeffler has remained silence on GOP-backed lawsuit to end healthcare coverage for millions and critical protections for pre-existing conditions and she mentioned in more than one occasion that Insidious socialism like Medicare-for-All attacks liberty. But she has worked on the short-term health plans to make them available to the people during the hard times the country is going through right now. She also criticized Barack Obama's decision of restricting them weeks before leaving the office. |
| Private Healthcare | For | Loeffler has shown support to all health sector (public and private) since she was appointed as a senator amid the COVID-19 crisis. |
| LGBT Rights | Against | Loeffler told the AJC that she supports the controversial anti-LGBTQ legislation. She gained anti-LGBTQ organnizations' support since her public statement of opposing the LGBTQ community's message and goal. Organizations like the Virginia Galloway, the anti-LGBTQ regional director of the Faith & Freedom Coalition. |
| Taxes | Against | Loeffler became the first candidate in Georgia's special U.S. Senate race to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a written commitment to Peach State taxpayers to oppose tax increases. Although Loeffler signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, she has remained silent on Trump's tax giveaways to the richest 1% that increased economic inequality. |
| Flat Tax Rate | For | Loeffler as a Republican and a millionaire showed consent to Flat Tax Rate. Despite the fact that she is totally against Flat rate systems like Medicaid-for-all. Although Loeffler signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, she has remained silent on Trump's tax giveaways to the richest 1% that increased economic inequality. |
| Abortion | Against | Loeffler described herself as an anti abortion politician in many occasions. Loeffler is a pro-life and after her first week as a senator, she has cosponsored a half dozen of GOP bills, three of them were mainly anti-abortion bills. One of these bills would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, another would make permanent a rule restricting federal funding for abortion services and the third requires medical care for fetuses that are still alive after an abortion procedure. |
| Gun Control | Against | Loeffler is a pro-Second Amendment. Loeffler signed another 3 bills on Jan 28th, 2020, opposing gun control. Senate bill 69, Senate bill 817, and Senate bill 1331, all of the three bills were to emphasize on the importance of the second amendment. |
| Assisted Suicide | Against | Loeffler is a pro-life politician. Loeffler signed another 3 bills on Jan 28th, 2020, opposing gun control. Senate bill 69, Senate bill 817, and Senate bill 1331, all of the three bills were to emphasize on the importance of the second amendment. |
| Government Interference | Against | Given her views on gun control, health care and taxes she is opposed to government interference. |
| Planned Parenthood | Against | Loeffler is a pro-life politician, and as an owner to a WNBA professional sports team in Georgia, when the WNBA partnered with Planned Parenthood, she has made it clear that she is against the message and the goal of this organization. |
| Welfare | Unknown | Loeffler has made no stance on this issue. Loeffler has made no stance in this issue. |
| Welfare | Against | On her pro-life certification application, Loeffler signed against stem cell research and to protect living human embryos from being used in such experiments. |
| Death Penalty | For | Loeffler suggested a legislation on February with another two senators ( Sen. Cotton and Sen. Blackburn) seeking stricter federal sentences for traffickers of fentanyl who deceive buyers by misrepresenting what drugs they are actually selling. Where in their statement they clearly mentioned that for fentanyl traffickers who intentionally kill their buyers with the drug by failing to disclose that the drug is in fact fentanyl, they would be eligible for the death penalty under the Cotton, Loeffler, Blackburn legislation. |
| Mandatory Prison Sentence | For | In the same legislation Sen. Loeffler, Sen. Cotton, and Sen. Blackburn suggested the death penalty for drug dealers under specific charges, they suggested a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison for those convicted of dealing fentanyl while claiming it is something else. |
| Military Spending | For | Loeffler is a pro-military politician, so she is an advocate to increase military spending. |
| War on Terrorism | For | Loeffler has shown support to Trump's procedures toward terrorism. |
| Foreign Policy International Interaction | Against | Loeffler is a supporter to Trump's isolationist foreign policy approaches. Loeffler supported the President's decisions to kill Iran's major general Qassem Soleimani, and has no problem with the President's bold decisions regarding foreign policy. |
| United Nations power | Unknown | Loeffler has made no stance on this issue. |
| Nationalism | For | Even though she didn't mention it explicitly, her speeches and the way she represents herself prove that she is a nationalist. |
| Free Markets | For | After her suspicious stock transactions, Loeffler has made it clear that she supports the free market to defend herself. Loeffler painted herself as a protector of the free market on Friday, April the 17th while defending the enormous (and shady) stock dump she made shortly after a private Senate meeting in January about the looming COVID-19 threat. |
| Brexit | Unknown | As a new politician, Loeffler has made no stance on this issue. |
| Affirmative Action | Unknown | Loeffler has made no stance on this issue. |
| Government Spending | For | Loeffler, as a pro-military politician, supports an increase in the government spendings on military. |
| Charter Schools | For | Loeffler co sponsored in a resolution that praises Charter schools and their contribution to the whole education system in general. |
| Common Core | Against | Loeffler has made it clear that she is against common core. Loeffler pointed out in a tweet she posted in May the 18th on twitter, where she was criticizing Doug Collins (her opponent in the upcoming elections) for supporting Common core. |
| Clean Energy | Unknown | Loeffler has made no stance on this issue. Loeffler has made no stance on this issue. |
| Religious Freedom | For | Loeffler supports Religious freedom and she clearly showed and mentioned in many of her statement. Loeffler supports Religious freedom and she clearly showed and mentioned in many of her statement. |
| Separation of Church and State | For | Loeffler has not spoken about it explicitly, but depends on her other stances toward other issues, you can tell she is a supporter. |
| Slavery Reparations | Unknown | Loeffler has made no clear stance on this issue. |
| Border Control | For | Loeffler backs stricter border security measurements. Since her appointment, Loeffler has made it clear that she is a pr-wall politician and she supports stricter laws on illegal immigration. |
| Passenger Profiling | Unknown | Loeffler has made no stance on this issue. |
| DACA | Unknown | Loeffler has made no stance on this issue. |
| Sanctuary Cities | Against | Loeffler mentioned that the U.S. immigration system is broke and need to be fixed. And in her recent campaign ads she claims that collins (her opponent in the upcoming elections) supports sanctuary cities and opposes gun rights in a desperate bid to salvage her campaign, and that means she opposes his views and one of them is sanctuary cities. |
| Legalizing Marijuana | Against | Loeffler sponsored and supported bills that would put more restrictions on drug dealers and the use of drugs in general. |