Raphael Warnock

American pastor and politician · United States · Politicians · Born 1969 · age 57

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Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is an American politician and Baptist pastor serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia, a seat he has held since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Warnock has been the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005.

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Warnock with John Lewis at a "Souls to the Polls" event. Warnock later officiated Lewis's funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church.[24]

Warnock with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in 2009

Warnock's U.S. Senate campaign logo

Warnock and Ossoff at the State of the Union in April 2021 after winning their first runoff elections

Warnock (grey necktie, behind President Biden) during the signing of Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, June 17, 2021

Warnock speaking at a press conference on the COVID-19 relief bill in 2021

Warnock with President Biden at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 2023

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Raphael Warnock

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I need my neighbor's children to be okay so that my children will be okay.
Aug 19, 2024, Excerpt from remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, C-SPAN (August 19, 2024), Own words
I want to say thank you. And I want to say thank you to my mother, who is here tonight. You’ll see her in a little while.
Dec 6, 2022, Victory speech after runoff election (6 December 2022), Own words
I talked about how I intend to represent them, and my opponent was focused on how she would represent her own interest. And I think the folks heard that loud and clear.
Quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Jolt: Raphael Warnock exults, Jon Ossoff claims victory, and Republicans wonder what, Own words