Years Raphael Warnock News Today

Permission to film there that day. he also spoke with me on that same trip. we just showed in front of a larger audience. >> welcome to atlanta. >> wonderful to be here. i should say, you giving us tremendous hospitality across the street, at the historical church of -- >> -- >> thats where your pastor at the moment. >> im the fifth pastor of a church founded in 1886. so when we come, we stay a little while. just a, years raphael warnock went from just a pastor to the 51st democratic united stat...

Is difficult and stressing dusen, and sometimes you walk in with a little bit of a not your stomach, but someone is, like today, maybe a little bounce news that. as everyone feeling at the white house? >> of course, were thrilled with the senator went up six victory, thrilled that it caps off a mid term where we returned every democratic senator -- sorry election, gained seats and the governors mansions, gained, ill say, it legislative chambers. i really a historic midterm performance. the last ...

Rights act struggles, georgia in the south. president and counsel of the naacp legal defense fund. joins me now. its great to have. you >> first, your reaction to what we saw transpire in this race. as someone who has litigated throughout the south. voting rights cases, have been outspoken by tums from politicians to suppress the vote. to essentially use mechanisms to keep black people out of the voting power and suppress black voters. last night meant. >> you have to connect last night to janua...

Statewide office. 47%. we are seeing black candidates. these are just black candidates about 40% in southern states. we had not seen this in the past. >> barnes is a great example. ron johnson was a top target and has proven very difficult to defeat and he ran slightly behind tony evers, but tony was the incumbent, there was not a single democrat -- single challenger senate candidate in the entire country to win the race for the first time since 1912. when you think of that context, barnes ran v...

Win last night. >> how much do you think thats attributable to the popularity of the basic meat and potatoes domestic policy and gender, the legislative agenda, that the democratic party and president biden have pursued? >> look, i think that is a lot to do it. obviously, every election is complicated. many factors. but i think the popularity of what weve done these two years really stands at. you can look at the warnock race as an example. senator warnock ran largely on two things that were par...

For democrats, which is not an unlikely rate, based on recent election results, democrats could wind up netting just over 310,000 new votes. enough to beat nathan dion in 2010, enough to give brock boma wins in 2018 2012. according to that matt, georgia turns blue. after sending the civil rights act in 1994, lyndon b. johnson reportedly remarked that the democrats had lost the south for a democrat -- generation. and they did. but if democrats could register enough voters across the south, they m...