Raphael Warnock

Crooked places made straight, talk about integrity.

Rough places, smooth possibility.

and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and everybody will get to see it together, inclusivity.

So equity,

Integrity, possibility, inclusivity.

And I use that as a kind of values proposition or moral lens through which to engage some of the big issues that have been at the center of our politics, including poverty, climate change, mass incarceration, a whole range of issues.

And I invite Americans to join me in that conversation.

Oh, God, there are crooked places all over the place.

And we see it at the center of our politics.

There's a kind of moral rot that's eating away at the fabric of our country.

It's all the way from the White House on down.

And you're seeing this infection and its impact in negative ways, the grift, the ways in which there's always been corruption.

But my goodness, the unabashed, unapologetic corruption that we're seeing coming out from this White House and the ways in which it has set the tone for others just not to tell the truth.

And I don't know where to start, but we're seeing that.

We're seeing a president who is literally dismantling the country

and literally selling it for parts and enriching his own family in the process.

And I just think that we're in a moral moment where people are looking for leaders who are thinking about something other than themselves.

I'm a Christian preacher.

Jesus said that if you seek to save your life, you'll lose it.

But if you lose your life, meaning if you give your life over to something bigger than you,