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Warnock wrote on his Twitter account that he is \"honored and humbled by the overwhelming support\" from the WNBA players.
\"This movement gives us the opportunity to fight for what we believe in, and I stand by all athletes promoting social justice on and off the court. #BlackLivesMatter,\" wrote Warnock.
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Even former Georgia House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams applauded the players while lending her support for Warnock.
Loeffler responded to the players' shirts in a statement to ESPN: \"This is just more proof that the out-of-control cancel culture wants to shut out anyone who disagrees with them. It's clear that the league is more concerned with playing politics than basketball, and I stand by what I wrote in June.\"
Dream and Mercury players wearing “Vote Warnock” shirts to their game todayGreat👏🏽👏🏽
— MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) August 4, 2020
Raphael Warnock is running against Kelly Loeffler for Senate. Loeffler is a co-owner of the Dream and said she opposes the Black Lives Matter movement,opposes equality✊🏽
pic.twitter.com/eSdgw9JMGI
Elizabeth Williams, a forward on the Atlanta Dream, told ESPN that the league's executive committee began exploring the shirt idea as a response to Loeffler's statements.
\"We can only control so much about what the league does [in regard to Loeffler], and so for us, we wanted it to be bigger than that,\" Williams told ESPN. \"That's kind of been the theme of this season. So we wanted to make sure we could still keep the focus on our social justice movement, and funny enough, Rev. Warnock is somebody who supports everything that we support and just happens to be running in that seat. So it just worked out really well.\"
The Seattle Storm defeated the Connecticut Sun 87-74 and the Dream lost to Mercury 81-74.
🔒 in.
— Seattle Storm (@seattlestorm) August 5, 2020
🔥 🆙
Don't forget to VOTE! ✅#StrongerThanEver pic.twitter.com/pM5lCwtZbu
Don't boo...VOTE 🗳
— Chicago Sky (@chicagosky) August 4, 2020
Register to vote at https://t.co/zXnPqmFZQ7 #Vote2020 pic.twitter.com/4yMmEqgXMS
Loeffler gained headlines earlier this year when The Daily Beast reported that she sold off more than $1 million in stock during the period leading up to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. and the precipitous market losses that followed.
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The report said Loeffler’s sales began on Jan. 24, the day the Senate Health Committee received a closed-door briefing from administration officials on the coronavirus.
A spokesperson for Loeffler defended her, saying she had no knowledge of the transactions and that it's a \"ridiculous and baseless attack.\"
ABC News' Matthew Mosk and Quinn Scalan contributed to this report
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