Volume 152 • Issue 1
The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
By Jackson Reydel '23
March 24, 2021
While the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol will be remembered as a day of infamy in the United States, it will also be known as the day that Rev. Raphael Warnock defeated Sen. Kelly Loeffler in her campaign in Georgia. Perhaps the most interesting reason for her loss is that The Atlanta Dream — the WNBA team Loeffler partly owned — came out in vocal support of Warnock. A staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, Loeffler campaigned on a number of conservative issues such as illegal immigrat