Black Lives Matter plans to raise $ 500,000 to help Democrat candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff campaign to overthrow the majority of the Republican Senate in Georgia’s January election.
In an email sent to voters by Fox News, the Black Lives Matter PAC said the outcome of the Georgian Senate races will have a direct impact on criminal justice reform efforts, electoral processes and access to health care.
Fox News also reported that the Georgian Senate’s running races could also affect the future of progressive policy proposals, such as the BREATHE law, which seeks to alienate funds from policing and redirect federal funds to other agencies and initiatives, according to the email. .
“We know how important this choice will be in determining what decisions will be made in the Senate over the next few years,” the Black Lives Matter email seen by Fox News reads.
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“Decisions that directly affect us, such as access to quality and affordable health care, reform of the criminal justice system, all the way to major electoral reform, such as the adoption of the BREATHE Act.”
Newsweek contacted Black Lives Matter for further details and comments. This article is updated with all the answers.
Fox News reported the group’s plan to support Ossoff and Warnock in Georgia’s Senate election when millions of dollars will flow into the races – making them two of the most expensive senate races in American history.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said she spent $ 1 million earlier this week on her own re-election campaign fund for Republican senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue as Georgian officials tried to keep their seats in the upper chamber.
The South Carolina legislature also called on his colleagues to send the funds from their campaigns to Loeffler and Perdue before the Jan. 5 election.
He reported it The New York Times more than $ 125 million was donated last week over the course of two weeks of the Georgian Senate’s run-up campaigns. Similar sums were spent on campaign advertising.
Even the Romantic writers were immersed, the Democratic Romance for the Run group raised nearly $ 400,000 for the Ossoff and Perdue campaigns in hopes of winning effective control of the Senate.
If officials in Republican office lose their seats in the upper chamber, the Senate is divided 50-50. In this composition, elected Vice President Kamala Harris would vote for a final draw.
