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When Raphael Warnock was elected to the Senate from Georgia in the 2020 election, he made history a couple of times over. He became the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from the Deep South. At the same time, that victory\u2014alongside Jon Ossoff\u2019s\u2014flipped both of Georgia\u2019s Senate seats from Republican to Democrat. Once thought of as solidly red, Georgia has become a closely watched swing state that President Biden can\u2019t afford to lose in November, and Warnock is a key ally. He dismisses polls that show younger Black voters are leaning toward Trump in higher numbers than older voters; Biden\u2019s record as President, he thinks\u2014including a reported sixty per cent increase in Black wealth since the pandemic\u2014will motivate strong turnout. Warnock returns to Atlanta every Sunday to preach at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he remains senior pastor, and he thinks of the election as a \u201cmoral and spiritual battle.\u201d \u201cAre we a nation that can send from the South a Black man and a Jewish man to the Senate?\u201d he asks. \u201cOr are we that nation that rises up in violence as we witness the demographic changes in our country and the struggle for a more inclusive Republic?\u201d\xa0