“Warnock is the most radical and dangerous left-wing candidate ever to seek this office, and certainly in the state of Georgia, and he does not have your values,” he said. Trump said Monday during his rally in Dalton, Ga. .
Mr. However, Trump cannot define Georgia’s values. Voters made this clear in November, when Mr. Biden won the state – a result that the president continues to question unfounded. The population of Georgia and with it its values change. The Latino and Asian American populations of the state are increasing, and the suburbs are also attracting younger voters and moderate students.
This is perhaps the reason why the candidate mr. Warnock sounds less like the pastor mr. Warnock and more like Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, whose voter goal strategy specifically emphasizes multiculturalism rather than blackness.
Me. Abrams said in a recent interview that she is trying not to focus on one group rather than another when talking about how Georgia has become a democratic bright spot.
“I want us to be really clear that this requires the investment and support of various communities,” Abrams said. ‘This is a multiracial, multi-ethnic, multigenerational coalition. And I get nervous to the extent that we prefer one group with the exclusion of the other group. ‘
Nevertheless, the attempt of Mr. Warnock to go from black pastor to black senator is an exercise of a different kind of faith: it is a belief that American politics can change from within, that the most loyal voters of the Democratic Party can see themselves represented in Congress . That there is room to push the country forward within its institutions, rather than to diagnose its problems from the outside.
The latter is something that black pastors, who according to tradition often tell uncomfortable truths, have been doing for centuries. The black senator is a simple road, occupied by few people in American history, and not of Georgia at all.