CHICAGO — Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock was one of the speakers Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, combining the passion of his Sunday morning sermons with often repeated refrains from his campaign stump.
Warnock drew sharp contrasts between his 2020 election and the riot that ransacked the U.S. Capitol the following day to paint a picture of a broader struggle for democracy over “the forces that seek to divide us.”
“We must remain vigilant tonight because these antidemocratic forces are at work right now in Georgia and all across our country,” Warnock said, arguing that the election denialism on display during the Capitol riot “metastasized into dozens of voter suppression laws all across our country.”
Warnock, who pastors the church over which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once presided, critiqued Trump for posing with a Bible in the summer of 2020. “He should try reading it,” Warnock quipped.
See his full speech below or in the video player above this story.