Raphael Warnock, a pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, defeated the incumbent Kelly Loeffler to become the first Black person elected a U.S. senator from the state of Georgia.
“The other day, because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” he said. “Tonight, we proved with hope, hard work and the people by our side, anything is possible.” Loeffler ref...
Reverend Raphael Warnock grew up in Kayton Homes public housing in ... Warnock will bring to Washington the concerns of struggling Georgia families who ...
Kelly Loeffler. Not only was Warnock in a run-off election, but the senior Senator from the Peach State was also in a run-off with an incumbent candidate. Together, Warnock and his fellow Senator
The victory by the state’s first Black senator ensures Democrats an outright majority in the chamber for the rest of President Joe Biden’s term. That means the party won’t have to negotiate a power-sharing deal with Republicans and Vice President Kamala Harris won’t be called on as muc...
Senator Warnock is the third member of Alpha Phi Alpha to be come a US Senator, following Edward Brook who represented Massachusetts from 1967 to 1979 and Roland Burris who represented Illinois from 2009 to 2010. “I am Georgia, I am example and an iteration of its history,” Warnock stated...
Senator Raphael Warnock, who is still the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, delivered a sermon of sorts on the Senate floor on Wednesday in opposition to a wave of Republican-backed measures out of concerns of voter fraud.
ATLANTA — Polls closed on Tuesday in a hard-fought runoff election between Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican former football star Herschel Walker th…
William "Mo" Cowan (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA), who went on to become the first Black, South Asian American and woman vice president, followed. Warnock, who will be the 11th Black senator, is the first from Georgia and one of the only Black senators from...
Peters, the junior senator from Michigan, said he is trying to replay Democrats’ 2022 strategy of keeping Senate races from being nationalized — a tall task in a presidential election year. “We were able to win when no one thought we could win because we turned them into candidate-vs.-...