Sen. Kelly Loeffler Torched For Claiming There's 'Not A Racist Bone In My Body'

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), a vociferous opponent of the Black Lives Matter movement, claimed Sunday that “there is not a racist bone in my body.”

The senator infuriated critics with the remark during her debate with the Rev. Raphael Warnock (D), whom she faces next month in a Georgia runoff election that will help determine control of the Senate.

She was asked by panelist Lisa Rayam of WABE Radio whether she stands by her previous remarks calling the Black Lives Matter movement “fascist,” after hearing a comment from a Black constituent who said she fears daily for the lives of her family members from police violence.

Loeffler did not walk back her remarks.

Warnock accused Loeffler of using her “enormous privilege and power” as a senator to “pick a fight with the Black women on her team.”

“She says she is against racism and that racism has no place, but she welcomed the support of a QAnon conspiracy theorist and she sat down with a white supremacist for an interview,” he said.

Loeffler responded by calling Warnock’s remarks “sad,” saying she doesn’t have a racist bone in her body, and calling her opponent divisive.

The senator’s WNBA team has been calling for her to be booted from the league for months, citing her racist and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, among other controversies . Members of the Atlanta Dream have openly campaigned for Warnock.

Her debate night remarks were met with outrage and ridicule on Twitter.