Loeffler's campaign on the senator posing beside a former KKK leader: “Kelly had no idea who that was"

Kelly Loeffler’s campaign is trying to explain a photo she took with white supremacist Chester Doles on Friday. They claim Loeffler had no idea who he was.

In a photo shared by Progressive Jewish advocacy group Behind the Arc, Loeffler was seen smiling with the former leader of the KKK who was sentenced to prison for the 1993 beating of a black man, according to the Hill.

ALERT: Kelly Loeffler just posed for a photo with Chester Doles, a former KKK leader who runs the white supremacist American Patriots USA.

In 1993, Doles nearly beat a Black man to death.

In 2017, he marched in Charlottesville.

This is who @KLoeffler is proudly appealing to. pic.twitter.com/4YZcvL05rf
— Bend the Arc: Jewish Action (@jewishaction) December 13, 2020

In addition to being a former leader of the KKK Doles was also linked to Hammerskin Nation, which Southern Poverty Law describes as the “best organized, most widely dispersed and most dangerous Skinhead group.”

Stephen Lawson, Loeffler’s campaign spokesman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Kelly had no idea who that was, and if she had she would have kicked him out immediately because we condemn in the most vociferous terms everything that he stands for.”