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Full coverage of the 2020 Georgia U.S. Senate runoff debate between Kelly Loeffler and Raphael Warnock.

By Michael Gordon
12/30/2020 • 06:32 AM EST

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: Click or tap on any techniqueNull - the definition will be displayed here.
 that appears in bold to show its definition.
: misleading claimFalsehoods & Distortions - a statement with a few elements or kernel of truth, which can easily be proven deceptive or fundamentally untrue.
: There are actually 132 cases under investigation, the majority of which involve procedural matters unrelated to voter fraud.[1]
: FUDPropaganda Techniques - making dire warnings or raising doubt about an issue, while provided little or no specifics or evidence to support the claims.
: Warning that if Warnock wins, Democrats will defund the police and open the borders, when both Warnock and Biden have explicitly stated they oppose defunding the police and Biden doesn't support "open borders."[2][4]
: misleading claimFalsehoods & Distortions - a statement with a few elements or kernel of truth, which can easily be proven deceptive or fundamentally untrue.
: There are actually 132 cases under investigation, the majority of which involve procedural matters unrelated to voter fraud.[1]
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler associates the Democrats with socialism.
: common folkPropaganda Techniques - establishing a connection with an audience based on being just like one of them and therefore being able to empathize with their concerns.
: common folkPropaganda Techniques - establishing a connection with an audience based on being just like one of them and therefore being able to empathize with their concerns.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Warnock casts Loeffler as a out of touch elite.
: common folkPropaganda Techniques - establishing a connection with an audience based on being just like one of them and therefore being able to empathize with their concerns.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical liberal.
: ad hominemPropaganda Techniques - attacking the character or motive of the person making an argument, rather than attacking the argument itself.
: Warnock focuses on Loeffler's motive for attacking remarks he's made, without addressing the remarks he's made.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical liberal.
: honor by associationPropaganda Techniques - championing cultural sacred cows to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols.
: The police, the military
: misleading claimFalsehoods & Distortions - a statement with a few elements or kernel of truth, which can easily be proven deceptive or fundamentally untrue.
: There are actually 132 cases under investigation, the vast majority of which involve procedural matters unrelated to voter fraud.[1]
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical liberal.
: honor by associationPropaganda Techniques - championing cultural sacred cows to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols.
: The police, the military.
: loaded questionDebate Techniques - presenting a question that has a presumption of guilt built into it.
: exaggerationFalsehoods & Distortions - stretching the truth, to make something seem more powerful or meaningful than it actually is.
: While Loeffler was acquitted of any wrongdoing, she was never charged with a crime, so she couldn't have been exonerated.[3]
: FUDPropaganda Techniques - making dire warnings or raising doubt about an issue, while provided little or no specifics or evidence to support the claims.
: Warning that if Warnock wins, Democrats will defund the police, when both Warnock and Biden have explicitly stated they oppose defunding the police.[2][4]
: loaded questionDebate Techniques - presenting a question that has a presumption of guilt built into it.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical liberal.
: honor by associationPropaganda Techniques - championing cultural sacred cows to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols.
: The police, the military, Israel.
: FUDPropaganda Techniques - making dire warnings or raising doubt about an issue, while provided little or no specifics or evidence to support the claims.
: Warning that if Warnock wins, Democrats will defund the police and open the borders, when both Warnock and Biden have explicitly stated they oppose defunding the police and Biden doesn't support "open borders."[2][4]
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical liberal, out-of-state funded, rubber stamp for Schumer.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical liberal.
: honor by associationPropaganda Techniques - championing cultural sacred cows to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols.
: The police.
: straw manFalsehoods & Distortions - misrepresenting an opponent's position or argument to make it easier to attack, usually by exaggerating, distorting, or just completely fabricating it.
: While Warnock did say some police in Ferguson had a "gangster and thug mentality," he didn't call police gangsters and thugs.[4]
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical liberal, rubber stamp for Schumer and Pelosi.
: common folkPropaganda Techniques - establishing a connection with an audience based on being just like one of them and therefore being able to empathize with their concerns.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical liberal and a socialist.
: sloganPropaganda Techniques - a brief, striking phrase that people will remember, which typically acts on emotional appeals.
: "She was appointed. The people of Georgia have been disappointed."
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Warnock casts Loeffler as an out of touch elite.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical liberal.
: guilt by associationPropaganda Techniques - using an opponent's links to another to assign the other's beliefs, misdeeds, or other unattractive qualities to the opponent.
: Loeffler uses Warnock's working at a church that welcomed Castro to link him to communism.[5]
: guilt by associationPropaganda Techniques - using an opponent's links to another to assign the other's beliefs, misdeeds, or other unattractive qualities to the opponent.
: Loeffler uses a comment Warnock made during 2008 interview, where he mentioned Jeremiah Wright, to link Warnock to anti-Semitism.[6]
: honor by associationPropaganda Techniques - championing cultural sacred cows to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols.
: The police, God, the military.
: honor by associationPropaganda Techniques - championing cultural sacred cows to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols.
: Religion, the military, Israel.
: minimizationPropaganda Techniques - characterizing something that you don't want to address as trivial or insignificant, in order to shift the focus away from it and onto "more important" things.
: Warnock trivializes his being pro-choice in light of issues like infant and maternal mortality.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical socialist.
: FUDPropaganda Techniques - making dire warnings or raising doubt about an issue, while provided little or no specifics or evidence to support the claims.
: Claiming "the left" supports defunding the police and "open borders," when both Warnock and Biden have explicitly stated they oppose defunding the police and Biden doesn't support "open borders."[2][4]
: guilt by associationPropaganda Techniques - using an opponent's links to another to assign the other's beliefs, misdeeds, or other unattractive qualities to the opponent.
: Loeffler uses Warnock being endorsed by organizations that may want to defund the police to link Warnock to defunding the police.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical liberal.
: misleading claimFalsehoods & Distortions - a statement with a few elements or kernel of truth, which can easily be proven deceptive or fundamentally untrue.
: Loeffler voted against a catch-all spending bill, which included money for community policing (COPS), but there's no evidence that COPS funding was the reason for her "no" vote.[7]
: minimizationPropaganda Techniques - characterizing something that you don't want to address as trivial or insignificant, in order to shift the focus away from it and onto "more important" things.
: Warnock trivializes the importance of knowing what his position is on the size of SCOTUS, in light of other things like COVID 19 relief.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Warnock casts Loeffler as an out of touch elite.
: minimizationPropaganda Techniques - characterizing something that you don't want to address as trivial or insignificant, in order to shift the focus away from it and onto "more important" things.
: Warnock trivializes whatever his position might be on the size of SCOTUS, in the face of everyday people's struggles with the pandemic.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radical liberal.
: baseless claimFalsehoods & Distortions - a statement that is presented as accepted or established fact, but no evidence could be found to support the claim.
: Warnock would not only increase the size of SCOTUS, but would pack it with radicals justices that would override the Constitution.
: honor by associationPropaganda Techniques - championing cultural sacred cows to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols.
: The police.
: half truthFalsehoods & Distortions - a statement that is essentially true, but lacking critical information and presented as the whole truth.
: Loeffler mentions Warnock's call for ending cash bail, without mentioning he just wants to do it for nonviolent offenses.[8]
: guilt by associationPropaganda Techniques - using an opponent's links to another to assign the other's beliefs, misdeeds, or other unattractive qualities to the opponent.
: Warnock uses Loeffler's accepting Marjorie Taylor Greene's endorsement and being interviewed by Jack Posobiec to link her to QAnon and white supremacists.[9]
: guilt by associationPropaganda Techniques - using an opponent's links to another to assign the other's beliefs, misdeeds, or other unattractive qualities to the opponent.
: Loeffler uses a comment Warnock made during 2008 interview, where he mentioned Jeremiah Wright to link Warnock to anti-Semitism.[6]
: straw manFalsehoods & Distortions - misrepresenting an opponent's position or argument to make it easier to attack, usually by exaggerating, distorting, or just completely fabricating it.
: While the accusation of inappropriately trading stocks may be considered an attack on Loeffler, it's not an attack on every single Georgian or the America dream.
: honor by associationPropaganda Techniques - championing cultural sacred cows to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols.
: Jesus.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts herself as the American dream and Warnock as socialism.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler casts Warnock as a radial liberal.
: honor by associationPropaganda Techniques - championing cultural sacred cows to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols.
: God, the military, the police.
: labelingPropaganda Techniques - pigeon-holing a person or group into a simple category and assigning names and/or beliefs to that category.
: Loeffler again associates Warnock with socialism.
: sloganPropaganda Techniques - a brief, striking phrase that people will remember, which typically acts on emotional appeals.
: "They have no vision, so they engage in division."

Total number of techniques detected over the 56:16 runtime of this video clip:

PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES

47 OCCURRENCES

ad hominem:  
common folk:        
FUD:        
guilt by association:          
honor by association:                  
labeling:                                      
minimization:      
slogan:    

FALSEHOODS & DISTORTIONS

9 OCCURRENCES

baseless claim:  
exaggeration:  
half truth:  
misleading claim:        
straw man:    

SUMMARY

56 OCCURRENCES

Loeffler: 74%
Warnock: 26%

References
1. "Georgia officials overstated election investigations". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Published: December 17, 2020.

2. "RNC fact check: First night speakers spin". Roll Call. Published: August 25, 2020.

4. "Ad Links Warnock to 'Defunding the Police'". FactCheck.org. Published: November 25, 2020.

8. "Fact-check: Did Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler accept an endorsement from a QAnon supporter?". Austin American-Statesman. Published: December 10, 2020.