Opinion | Raphael Warnock shows just how important one election can be

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“Warnock, specifically, does more than add a 50th vote in the Senate for Democrats. He adds moral and intellectual heft to the body. During his maiden speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, he delivered a devastating indictment of Republican efforts to restrict African Americans’ access to the ballot.

“Using the cadence and energy honed as a pastor, he recalled that “just a few months after [Rep. John Lewis’s] death, there are those in the Georgia legislature, some who even dare to praise his name, that are now trying to get rid of Sunday ‘souls to the polls,’ making it a crime for people who pray together to get on a bus together in order to vote together.” He continued, “Make no mistake,… More

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Opinion | Raphael Warnock shows just how important one election can be

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