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On Wednesday, anchors on all three network morning shows couldn’t contain their joy over radical left-wing Democrat Raphael Warnock winning Tuesday’s Georgia Senate runoff, with each broadcast treating him to a fawning softball interview. Rather than press him on his history of incendiary comments, scandals, or far-left ideology, the hosts gushed over the Atlanta reverend’s victory being a “political earthquake” that reflected the “kind spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King.”
“Good morning, and congratulations to you, Reverend Senator-elect Warnock..You were part of a political earthquake,” that was how
CBS This Morning co-host and Democratic Party donor Gayle King welcomed Warnock on the program. She then excitedly invited him to tout his win:
ABC News
By QUINN SCANLAN, ABC News
(NEW YORK) The Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, said that his projected victory in one of Georgia’s dual U.S. Senate runoffs is a “historic moment,” adding that he “can’t wait” to be in the upper chamber of Congress “to represent the concerns of ordinary people.”
“I’m deeply honored that the people of Georgia decided to place their faith in me and have decided to send me to represent their interests in Washington, D.C.,” Warnock told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on
Good Morning America Wednesday.
“Certainly this is a historic moment and I’m just deeply grateful to be a vessel in a moment in which we’re facing such large problems in our country, and I can’t wait to get to the U.S. Senate to represent the concerns of ordinary people,” he added.
Raphael Warnock honors the journey of his 82-year-old mother, who as a teen ‘used to pick somebody else’s cotton’
Verlene Warnock spent her summers picking cotton and tobacco as a teen in Waycross, Georgia, in the 1950s before becoming a pastor.
“Because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” Warnock said in a speech shortly after midnight Wednesday.
Her story was not uncommon. In the Jim Crow South, many poor Black people built savings by working in the fields because it was almost impossible for them to own land, said Karlos Hill, chair of African-American studies at the University of Oklahoma.
ATLANTA The Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, said that his projected victory in one of Georgia s dual U.S. Senate runoffs is a historic moment, adding that he can t wait to be in the upper chamber of Congress to represent the concerns of ordinary people. I m deeply honored that the people of Georgia decided to place their faith in me and have decided to send me to represent their interests in Washington, D.C., Warnock told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview Wednesday on Good Morning America. Certainly this is a historic moment and I m just deeply grateful to be a vessel in a moment in which we re facing such large problems in our country, and I can t wait to get to the U.S. Senate to represent the concerns of ordinary people, he added.