Rev. Raphael Warnock, one of two Democratic opponents in the Georgia Senate special race, made his final appeal to Peach state voters on Monday at a drive-in rally in Atlanta with fellow candidate Jon Ossoff and the president-elect Joe Biden
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If Warnock and Ossoff win, Democrats will have a narrow margin in the Senate. Otherwise, Republicans will retain control of the House, seriously undermining Biden’s ability to pass substantive legislation during his first months in office.
“If you have already voted, your job is not done,” said Warnock, who is a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church – where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached – said at the rally.
“Your job is not finished until you call everyone in your circle, everyone you know, until you call your family and friends. And you tell them to vote ”.
“Tell them that the preacher said that the vote is a type of prayer for the kind of world we want to live in, and that our prayers are stronger when we pray together,” continued the reverend. “Are you ready to win this election?”
The apparent blue wave in Georgia was driven by voting activists like Stacey Abrams, who worked for years to increase black voter turnout.
Abrams and company were successful, with Georgians setting state records for early voting and by mail amid the pandemic.
Specifically, young black Georgians obtained 20% of the state’s votes in the general election, with 90% of them voting for Biden, according to the Tufts University Information and Research Center on Civic Learning and Engagement.
Young and black voters can prove to be the difference factor in what has been an extremely tough second round. Warnock, Loeffler, Ossoff and Perdue were unable to win 50 percent of the vote on November 3 – forcing the runoff of Tuesday’s election.
Polls still show candidates in a tie: RealClearPolitics poll averages show Warnock leading Loeffler with 1.8 percentage points and Ossoff with a 0.8% advantage over Perdue.
Warnock also criticized Loeffler’s negative message against him, saying that the freshman senator called him “anything but a son of God”.
“But it’s okay,” Warnock told the energetic crowd.
“My mom in Savannah, Georgia, she said it’s not what they call you, it’s how you respond, and in a few days she can call me Senator Raphael Warnock.”