Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., said in a Sunday interview that the country’s decision to elect President Donald Trump twice points to something deeper than a single politician’s appeal.
Asked by Politico’s Jonathan Martin whether America needed a “spiritual rebirth,” Warnock answered, “Absolutely.”
“I think Donald Trump is a problem. He’s a serious problem for our country. He’s a danger,” Warnock said. “He’s symptomatic of a deeper problem. We — only a nation that is spiritually sick could elect Donald Trump twice. There is a brokenness.”
Warnock, who is also senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, argued that returning to political “normalcy” misreads the moment the country is in.
“And for people who think we just need to get through this moment so that we can get back to normalcy, if that is your diagnosis of where you are, you have missed where we really are,” Warnock said. “It’s only because so many people were being left behind in the first place that somebody like Trump could even get a hand on them.”
The senator described the 2026 midterms as an “inflection point” for Democrats, warning that failing to win those races could make the 2028 presidential election “theoretical.” He did not say whether he intends to run for president in 2028 but called for a “robust debate” and a “real primary.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Warnock’s remarks.
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Emma Hall pushed back on Warnock in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying, “No one cares what this radical left-wing warrior has to say,” and claiming Warnock “supports abolishing prisons, police and borders, and thinks Republicans are like dying snakes who should repent.”
Warnock has made similar arguments before. In an April interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, he was asked about pastors who support Trump and describe his presidency as divinely ordained. Warnock called the Trump administration “ungodly” and compared those arguments to historical attempts by Christians to justify slavery using Scripture.
“Yeah, they’re wrong,” Warnock told Tapper, adding that the Black Church arose in part to correct the “American heresy that somehow tried to reconcile the faith of Jesus to slavery.”
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