WNBA players donned "Vote Warnock" shirts on Tuesday, in opposition to Atlanta Dream co-owner and U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler over her opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Loeffler, an appointee who took office earlier this year in place of retired Sen. Johnny Isakson, is on the ballot for that seat in November against Democrat Raphael Warnock.
She's been opposed to WNBA efforts to draw attention to social justice and Black Lives Matter.
Players from Seattle Storm, Chicago Sky, Phoenix Mercury — and Loeffler's own Dream — were spotted wearing "Vote Warnock" shirts in warmups before their games in Bradenton, Florida.
“It was something we talked through and wanted to be strategic, intentional about our words and language,” Dream forward Elizabeth Williams told reporters in a Zoom call on Wednesday.
”We wanted to make sure, whatever action was taken, that we felt like in doing so all the ideas we had been focused on weren’t lost.”
The "Vote Warnock" shirts were the brainchild of Seattle point guard Sue Bird, a four-time Olympic gold medalist.
Bird on Tuesday said Warnock, a minister from the famed Ebenezer Baptist Church, "has spent his life fighting for the people and we need him in Washington."
