Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is running in his fourth election in roughly two years as he fights for a full six-year term representing the battleground state.
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Warnock first won his seat in the Senate in a 2021 runoff after neither he nor then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler garnered 50% of the vote in their first matchup in November 2020. Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks during a Meet and Greet event at St. John Baptist Church Dec. 4, 2022 in Gainesville, Ga. Sen. Warnock continues to campaign throughout Georgia for the runoff election on December 6 against his Republican challenger Herschel Walker.During the 1990s, he served as the youth pastor and assistant pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, a church with an extensive history of fighting for several social justice causes.
"Calvin Butts taught me how to take my ministry to the streets," Warnock said in a eulogy, according to. "He understood that the church's work doesn't end at the church door. That's where it starts."
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