Warnock makes campaign stop in Brunswick ahead of midterm election

Oct. 26—Sen. Raphael Warnock told a crowd gathered Tuesday in Brunswick that he hopes to continue doing important work in the United States Senate, if reelected this November.

The Democratic senator made a campaign stop in Glynn County to encourage local voters to support him and his party during the midterm election Nov. 8.

"We have important moral work to do," Warnock said. "I know that this is a political campaign, but if I'm just going to show up looking like another transactional politician — and there's no shortage of them — then there was no reason for a pastor to get involved in something as messy as politics."

Warnock is running against Herschel Walker, a Republican candidate who is supported by former U.S. President Donald Trump and who has been mired in several controversies in recent months.

Warnock arrived to the event Tuesday in a dramatic fashion and to much fanfare, his tour bus pulling into the Winn-Dixie parking lot on Hwy. 17 and parking outside the Glynn Dems headquarters. A large crowd of supporters waited for him, cheering and holding up Warnock's orange and blue campaign signs.

"The first time I came to this very spot during the last cycle, hardly no one was here," Warnock recalled. "Few people knew me, but not that many. Well a few things have changed since then."

Warnock was elected in 2021 in a close runoff in Georgia, along with Sen. Jon Ossoff, giving the Democratic party enough seats to control the U.S. Senate.

"Together we built the massive movement that made a difference, not only for this state of Georgia but for the United States of America," Warnock said.

Julie Jordan, chair of the Glynn Dems, said few expected Democratic candidates to do as well as they did in 2020.