Raphael Warnock
The Rev. Raphael Warnock is a U.S. Senator from Georgia elected in a special runoff election in January 2021 and running for re-election in 2022. Warnock, a Democrat, served as the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, located in Atlanta. The church's former pastors include the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Herschel Walker “wants a nationwide ban on abortion” and said no exceptions “not even for rape or incest or life of the mother.”
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“Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die (from maternal mortality) even when they have the insurance and the income.”
The child tax credit passed under President Joe Biden “has helped 97% of the families with children who are living in poverty.”
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“While the initial increase in oil prices resulted in a near instantaneous increase in gas prices for consumers, the subsequent decrease in crude oil prices…
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Says Kelly Loeffler supports "raising taxes on Georgia's middle class."
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Says Kelly Loeffler “welcomed the support of a QAnon conspiracy theorist, and she sat down with a white supremacist for an interview.”
Says Kelly Loeffler is "for getting rid of health care in the middle of a pandemic."
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When Sen. Kelly Loeffler heard about the COVID-19 risk, she “focused on her own portfolio” and "profited from the pandemic."
"Georgia has the fifth-highest number of uninsured people of any state in the union."