Former Georgia GOP Sen. Loeffler touts party's early voting efforts in Peach State

Former Georgia GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Thursday that Republican efforts to encourage early voting had achieved comparable results to those of the Democrats.

"Georgia just had its presidential preference primary, and we see Republicans turned out two to one to Democrats," Loeffler said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. "Now, admittedly, they don't have a candidate that people are excited about. We do."

Loeffler asserted the strength of the GOP's ground game and highlighted that early voting was about 46 percent.

"That's that's pretty strong and very consistent in a primary," she said. "Mail-in was limited... it was like 2.5% [while] Democrats had five percent. But we were about even in terms of early voting and Election Day voting."

Loeffler created Greater Georgia, a political organization that works to register Georgia voters, supports strengthening election transparency, and talks to under-reached communities to bolster engagement in the political process.

"This election is going to be about turnout," Loeffler asserted. "We had record turnout in 2020. We've got to make sure that we get everyone out. That's what Greater Georgia is doing."

Loeffler was appointed in 2019 to serve out the term of retiring GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson. She lost her bid for a full term to now-Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in a runoff as part of the 2020 elections.

The former senator further touted the importance of reaching out to different communities and not leaving voter registration up to the Democrats. 

"We have really yielded the monopoly on voter registration to the left," Loeffler said. "We've been doing that non stop at supermercados, going across the state and going to churches, reaching out to black churches, and diverse communities from all walks of life."