Kelly Lynn Loeffler is an American businesswoman and politician who served as a United States senator for Georgia from 2020 to 2021.
49 Facts About Kelly Loeffler
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Kelly Loeffler is a former co-owner of the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association.
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Kelly Loeffler ran in the 2020 Georgia US Senate special election, seeking to hold the Senate seat until January 3,2023.
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Kelly Loeffler finished second in the November 3 election, advancing to a runoff with Democrat Raphael Warnock held on January 5,2021.
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When Perdue's term ended on January 3,2021, Kelly Loeffler ascended to be the senior senator from Georgia, a position she held for just under three weeks, until Warnock and Jon Ossoff were sworn in.
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Kelly Loeffler aligned with President Donald Trump, touting her "100 percent Trump voting record" during the campaign.
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Kelly Loeffler later supported a lawsuit by Trump allies seeking to overturn the election results, and announced her intention to object to the certification of the Electoral College results in Congress.
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Kelly Loeffler was born in Bloomington, Illinois, to Don and Lynda Kelly Loeffler, and raised on her family's corn and soybean farm in Stanford, Illinois.
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In 1999, Kelly Loeffler graduated with a Master of Business Administration in international finance and marketing from DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
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Kelly Loeffler financed her graduate school tuition by mortgaging land inherited from her grandparents.
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Kelly Loeffler married the firm's CEO, Jeffrey Sprecher, in 2004.
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Kelly Loeffler was eventually promoted to senior vice president of investor relations and corporate communications.
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In 2010, Kelly Loeffler bought a minority stake in the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association.
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Kelly Loeffler took an active role in the team, arranging her travel schedule to attend all games and often meeting with head coach Michael Cooper during halftime to analyze the first half of the game.
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In February 2021, Kelly Loeffler sold her stake in the team.
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When Kelly Loeffler left Intercontinental Exchange to join the Senate, the company awarded her over $9 million of financial assets.
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Kelly Loeffler donated $750,000 to Restore Our Future, a super PAC supporting former Governor Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.
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In May 2020, Kelly Loeffler's husband gave $1 million to a Trump 2020 reelection super PAC, his largest federal political donation to date.
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Kelly Loeffler considered seeking the Republican nomination in the 2014 United States Senate election in Georgia but ultimately passed on the race because of Intercontinental Exchange's pending acquisition of the New York Stock Exchange.
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On December 4,2019, in accordance with Georgia law, Governor Kemp appointed Kelly Loeffler to fill Isakson's unexpired term until the next regularly scheduled statewide election in November 2020.
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The choice of Kelly Loeffler angered many Georgia conservatives who had supported Collins.
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On January 6,2020, Kelly Loeffler was sworn into the Senate.
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Kelly Loeffler became the second female to represent Georgia in the US Senate.
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Kelly Loeffler called herself the most conservative Republican in the Senate and allied herself with President Trump.
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Kelly Loeffler supported Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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Kelly Loeffler donated portions of her Senate salary to anti-abortion pregnancy centers and an anti-LGBTQ adoption agency.
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On gun issues, Kelly Loeffler received "A" ratings from the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America.
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Kelly Loeffler cosponsored the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act and opposed the assault weapons ban and red flag law proposals.
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Kelly Loeffler went on to say that regarding COVID-19, "Americans are in good hands with" the Trump administration.
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In March 2020, Kelly Loeffler said that the US was "in the best economic position" to handle COVID-19.
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Kelly Loeffler criticized Democrats, writing that they "continue to play politics with" COVID-19.
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Kelly Loeffler denied any wrongdoing, saying the trades were made by a third-party advisor and that she learned about them only after they occurred.
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Kelly Loeffler ran to serve the remaining two years of the Senate term to which she had been appointed.
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Under Georgia's election law, all candidates for the seat compete in a nonpartisan blanket primary; in addition to Democratic candidates, Kelly Loeffler, backed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, was challenged by fellow Republican Doug Collins, who represented Georgia's 9th congressional district.
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In July 2020, Kelly Loeffler, who co-owned the Atlanta Dream, wrote the WNBA a public letter objecting to players wearing shirts with "Black Lives Matter" and "Say Her Name" printed on them, and suggesting they wear American flags instead.
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Kelly Loeffler stated her opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement, saying it "advocates things like defunding and abolishing the police, abolishing our military, emptying our prisons, destroying the nuclear family" and "promotes violence and antisemitism".
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Kelly Loeffler's comments led some WNBA players to call for her removal from ownership.
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Kelly Loeffler later said that the movement was "based on Marxist principles" and threatens to "destroy" America.
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When she was asked about the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump discusses groping women, Kelly Loeffler replied that she was "not familiar with that".
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In December 2020, Kelly Loeffler supported a lawsuit by Trump allies seeking to overturn the election results.
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On November 20,2020, Kelly Loeffler spoke without a mask at a rally in Canton, Georgia, 46 days before the runoff.
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On January 1,2021, Kelly Loeffler absented herself from the successful override of Trump's veto of the defense spending bill.
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Kelly Loeffler touted her endorsement from Trump; he held a rally in the state shortly before the election.
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At the rally, he asked his supporters to vote for Kelly Loeffler, repeating debunked voter fraud allegations.
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Kelly Loeffler's campaign tried to paint her opponent Raphael Warnock as a socialist in a series of campaign ads, calling for people to vote for her to "hold the line" against what she called socialism.
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Kelly Loeffler's win was attributed to a large black voter turnout in the runoff.
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That same day, Kelly Loeffler planned to object to the certification of the presidential election results, but after the storming of the United States Capitol, she withdrew her objection and accepted the results.
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In 2004, Kelly Loeffler married Jeffrey Sprecher, the founder and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange and Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.
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Kelly Loeffler used a Bombardier Challenger 300 private jet for her Senate work and political campaigning.