The chances of Camp Biden to remain in the majority in the Senate are based on this preacher of Atlanta, who will compete in a second round against the republican candidate in Georgia.
by Arnaud Leparmentier (Atlanta (Georgia), special envoy)
During the television debate for the senatorial election of Georgia, on October 15, the republican candidate, Herschel Walker, had tried to evacuate the multiple reproaches addressed to his candidacy. “I am not the subject of this election. The stake is what Raphael Warnock and Joe Biden have done you and your family,” said this former ultra -conservative American football player. Constantly, the candidate dubbed by former president Donald Trump sought to refocus the debate on the current president, Joe Biden, making his opponent, the outgoing Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, the simple performer of the national policy of democrats. The battle was national, democrats against Republicans, and was little focused on men.
In fact, during this campaign, no one really became interested in the African American pastor Warnock. But, at 53, this progressive Baptist embodies all the hopes of the Democratic left if she wants to hope to keep the Senate. None of the two candidates having crossed the 50 % of the votes’ mark due to the presence of a libertarian candidate, Chase Oliver, a second round will be organized on December 6. Mr. Warnock obtained 49.4 % of the vote, against 48.5 % to Mr. Walker.
Two years ago, already, Mr. Warnock had offered Mr. Biden an unexpected majority in the Senate by being elected in a second round on January 5, 2021 (just like the second Democratic Senator of the State, Jon Ossoff, whose mandate was not brought into play on November 8). Formerly, the second towers were very favorable to the Republicans, the Democrats failed to mobilize the black electorate a second time. But 2020 was a counterexample, as the national issue was important. This year, the outcome of the ballot is completely uncertain.
Raphael Warnock is at the left wing of the Democratic Party and claims his vocation as a pastor. “I am not a senator who was a pastor. You know that you sent a pastor to the Senate,” said the one who continues to preach every Sunday in his parish of Atlanta in a meeting. The senator voted a proposal raising the minimum wage at $ 15, against 7.25 currently (same amounts in euros) in Georgia. He is in favor of a restriction of the wearing of arms, is delighted to have voted a law framing a little more arms sales under Joe Biden (the African-Americans are the first victims of the homicides), and the National Rifle Association, the weapon lobby, gratifies an execrable note.
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