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Fact check: Georgia Republicans run more misleading attack ads against Warnock and Ossoff | The Atlanta Voice

In early December, we fact-checked misleading attack ads from both Democrats and Republicans in the two Georgia runoff elections that will determine control of the US Senate. Since then, Republicans have run some additional misleading ads attacking both Democratic candidates, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. Here's a breakdown of two of these ads. Warnock's comment about people in jail Republican […]

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