Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams have not advocated communist policies, such as complete government ownership of property. The two Georgia Democrats have not called for confiscating guns from all Georgians.
running on both Facebook and Instagram is directed at U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
"Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams are radical communists and, if they get their way, gun owners here in Georgia will be completely disarmed!" the ad’s caption said."That’s what they want, to turn our beloved Georgia, and America, into the next China — where only the government has guns." It features the Georgia Gun Owners’ leader, Aaron Dorr, reiterating the attacks on the Abrams and Warnock and on President Joe Biden. Dorr says they are communists who hate America and"want to turn it into the next China."
The ad makes a false claim without evidence. Warnock and Abrams have not espoused communist policies or called for blanket seizures of guns.Warnock, who won a special election in January 2021, is being challenged by former college and professional football player Herschel Walker, a Republican. TheAbrams is running against first-term GOP Gov. Brian Kemp; she narrowly lost to him in 2018.
Communism typically involves authoritarian rule, a one-party government that owns all property and controls the means of production, and advocates for ending capitalism."Many on the right use the word communist as a catchall epithet to describe pretty much any liberal policy or person," said Jeffrey Lazarus, political science professor at Georgia State University.
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