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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 -- >> -- >> that's where your pastor at the moment. >> i'm 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 states senator. we will talk more about the long road to a blue georgia next. next

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, we're 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, i'll say, it legislative chambers. i really a historic midterm performance. the last time a president gained -- did not lose a sin going combat in the senate, they're only 96 senators...

Rights act struggles, georgia in the south. president and counsel of the naacp legal defense fund. joins me now. it's 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 january 5th 2021. when there was the election of senator warnock and ossoff. which was a huge deal, we d...

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 ever's, 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 very close to doing it. >> i thought that was incredibly powerful. and the question, chris i didn't ...

Win last night. >> how much do you think that's 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 we've 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 part of our agenda here. capping the price of insulin at $35, which we achieved for senior citizens i...