Welcome back to the weekend. The Harriswalz Campaign is ramping up its efforts to expose project 2025 ahead of next weeks debate. This week of action aims to connect the extreme plan of Donald Trumps file in his own image. And the campaign is entering this alone. It is relying on thousands of volunteers to pick up shifts, at the Campaign Host 2000 event in swing states. The goal . Worn more than 1 Million battleground voters of what a possible second Trump Term would look like. As Vice President Kamala Harris puts it, just imagine Donald Trump with no guard rails. Joining us now, mayor wiley, president of the Leadership Conference on civil and human rights. She is also former assistant u. S. Attorney and she brings the power every time she comes to the table. So nice to see you. It is wonderful to be at the power table. There we go. Happy to have you. I am lucky, look at all of the ladies at the table this morning. What you think about this michael talked about the guardrails of the Vi
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Georgia Sends a Preacher to Washington
Anger over Donald Trump’s leadership created an opening for progressives to flip formerly solid-red states such as Georgia and reclaim the identity of so-called values voters.
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Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published on August 23, 2020. On January 6, 2021, Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, was the winner of one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs. Read Emma Green’s profile of the pastor, who is poised to become the first Black senator from Georgia.
ATLANTA In late July, Democratic political giants filed into the towering sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church to mourn the death of an era, and to declare a new one to come. This is the church where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, and where Representative John Lewis, the civil-rights icon, was now being laid to rest. Lewis’s pastor, Raphael Warnock, stood before the congregation in a black pulpit robe with Kente-cloth panels and lamented the cyn