Episode 2045
Raphael Warnock
Thu, 2022-Dec-08 01:23 UTC
Length - 2:28
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With 303,585 views on Wednesday, 7 December 2022 our article of the day is Raphael Warnock.
Raphael Gamaliel Warnock ( RAH-fee-el WOR-nok; born July 23, 1969) is an American Baptist pastor and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed office on January 20, 2021. Since 2005, Warnock has been the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church. He was the senior pastor of Douglas Memorial Community Church until 2005. Warnock came to prominence in Georgia politics as a leading activist in the campaign to expand Medicaid in the state under the Affordable Care Act.
On January 30, 2020, Warnock announced his candidacy in Georgia's 2020 United States Senate special election, seeking to unseat incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler. No candidate received a majority of the vote on election day, so Warnock faced Loeffler again in a January 5, 2021, runoff election, which he won by more than 93,000 votes. With his and Jon Ossoff's victories, the Democratic Party won control of the Senate for the first time since 2014. Warnock and Ossoff are the first Democrats elected to the U. S. Senate from Georgia since Zell Miller in 2000. Warnock is the first African American to represent Georgia in the Senate, the first Black Democratic U. S. senator elected in the Southern United States, and the first Black Democrat to be elected to the Senate by a former state of the Confederacy. He won reelection in 2022, defeating Republican Herschel Walker in another runoff election and winning a full term.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:23 UTC on Thursday, 8 December 2022.
For the full current version of the article, see Raphael Warnock on Wikipedia.
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