After winning their respective primaries on Tuesday, Herschel Walker will take on Senator Raphael Warnock in a general election campaign that could help decide control of the Senate.
FILE - Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as she testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Herschel Walker will represent the Republican Party in its efforts to unseat Warnock in November. – Wayne Black was one of the few African Americans in the crowd as about 100 people gathered recently at the Republican Party headquarters near Columbus, Georgia, to hear from U.S.
The race will test whether Democratic gains in 2020 were a blip or the start of a political realignment in a rapidly changing state. In November 2020, “It doesn’t matter about the color,” he said. “It’s just the issues, who's going to get the job done.” “This is going to be a historic matchup,” said Stan Deaton, a scholar at the Georgia Historical Society.
Warnock, the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, has embraced King's legacy of racial justice and equal rights. After the killing of George Floyd by police in May 2020, Warnock expounded on the country’s struggle with a “virus” he called “COVID-1619” for the year when some of the first slaves arrived in what is now the United States. On Capitol Hill, he has attacked Republicans’ push for tighter voting rules as “Jim Crow in new clothes.
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