Warnock’s victory allows Democrats to exhale, but top statewide offices remain a bridge too far for most African American candidates
The Georgia Senator and Maryland’s Wes Moore among the few to prevail
5 min readDec 8, 2022
A collective sigh of relief could be heard in many quarters around the country as the news broke that Georgia’s incumbent Senator, Raphael Warnock, had fended off a challenge from Trump-endorsed candidate Herschel Walker. At the time the race was called with over 95 percent of the vote counted…