This Pastor May Run for the Senate – and Help Turn Georgia Blue

The Huffington Post’s Samantha Lachman reports that the Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, is considering running for a Georgia Senate seat. Warnock has a record of “advocating for voting rights, health care access, gun control and income inequality, among other issues,” Lachman writes. If he won, Warnock would be the “first African-American to do so statewide,” and the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Georgia since 2002.

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