Sen. Raphael Warnock

And so there are moments when I do have to push back against despair, but I refuse to give in to those who are trying to weaponize despair.

The way you respond is you keep walking.

I think that you have to meet voters where they are and talk directly to them in language that they can see themselves in the conversation.

You know, I still return to my pulpit every Sunday morning.

I pastor Ebenezer Church.

And back in days when I had more time, I used to teach midweek Bible study.

I was holding Bible studies in car washes around the corner from the church.

uh i was creating barbershop a barbershop at my church and inviting men to come and then we'd have conversations there in places that they frequent but then people have to see themselves in the conversation and i just think that that where black men are concerned where ordinary just not just black men young men voters in general ordinary people i think sometimes people around the beltway get caught up in in a kind of vocabulary and way of talking

And which is why I go to my pulpit every Sunday and go back to my community because you can, you can

I think our policies are good.

I think our policies are certainly better than the other side.

But men who are just trying to figure out, how am I going to be able to afford my life?

How am I going to take care of my children?

Black men want what other people want.

What's the path to a prosperous life where I can just not get by but thrive?

and my family can do well and I can have the dignity that comes with work and work that pays a livable wage and allows me to retire with dignity and be able to go to the doctor or send my kid to the doctor when they need to go to the doctor.

I think in some ways our party has become so captive to corporate interests

That people need to see us putting forward more, I think, bolder plans around these issues.

And they need to hear us fighting for them.

And we need to be talking to the people we purport to represent, which is why I return to my community every week.