Raphael Warnock

Warnock was born in Savannah, Georgia, on July 23, 1969.{{cite web | title=Warnock, Raphael G. | website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000790 | access-date=January 24, 2021 | archive-date=January 28, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128145651/https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000790 | url-status=live }} He grew up in public housing as the eleventh of twelve children born to Verlene and Jonathan Warnock, both Pentecostal pastors.{{cite web|last=Lewis|first=Ricardo|date=February 15, 2016|title=From Public Housing to the People's Pastor: Savannah native uses pulpit as platform for change|url=https://www.wsav.com/news/from-public-housing-to-the-peoples-pastor-savannah-native-uses-pulpit-as-platform-for-change/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141443/https://www.wsav.com/news/from-public-housing-to-the-peoples-pastor-savannah-native-uses-pulpit-as-platform-for-change/|archive-date=January 6, 2021|access-date=January 31, 2020|publisher=WSAV-TV}}{{Cite magazine |last=Jones |first=Tayari |date=June 23, 2022 |title=Senator Raphael Warnock Is Running Again for the Soul of Georgia |url=https://time.com/6190332/raphael-warnock-senate-reelection-georgia/ |magazine=Time |language=en |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221203183316/https://time.com/6190332/raphael-warnock-senate-reelection-georgia/ |archive-date=December 3, 2022 |access-date=December 3, 2022}} His father served in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he learned automobile mechanics and welding, and subsequently opened a small car restoration business where he restored junked cars for resale. His mother picked cotton and tobacco in the summers in Waycross, Georgia, as a teenager and became a pastor.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/06/raphael-warnock-mother-cotton-georgia-election/|title=Warnock, Georgia's first Black senator, honors mother and 'the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else's cotton'|first1=Timothy |last1=Bella |first2=Tim |last2=Elfrink |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 6, 2021|accessdate=December 6, 2022}}

Warnock graduated from Sol C. Johnson High School in 1987,{{cite web |first=Dana |last=Clark Felty |url=https://www.savannahnow.com/article/20061006/news/310069843 |title=From Kayton Homes to King's pulpit |work=Savannah Morning News |date=October 6, 2006 |access-date=January 31, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141444/https://www.savannahnow.com/article/20061006/news/310069843 |url-status=live }} and having wanted to follow in the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr., attended Morehouse College, from which he graduated cum laude in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology.{{cite web |url=https://www.aaheritagehouse.org/reverend-raphael-gamaliel-warnock |title=The Reverend Raphael Gamaliel Warnock, Ph. D. |publisher=African American Heritage House |access-date=November 7, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141541/https://www.aaheritagehouse.org/reverend-raphael-gamaliel-warnock |url-status=live }} He credits his participation in the Upward Bound program for making him college-ready, as he was able to enroll in early college courses through Savannah State University. He then earned Master of Divinity, Master of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Union Theological Seminary, a school affiliated with Columbia University.{{cite web |url=https://www.syracuse.com/syracuse-university/2019/12/pastor-at-historic-martin-luther-king-jr-church-to-speak-at-syracuse-university.html |first=Julie |last=McMahon |title=Pastor at historic MLK Jr. church to speak at SU |date=December 18, 2019 |website=The Post-Standard |access-date=January 31, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141446/https://www.syracuse.com/syracuse-university/2019/12/pastor-at-historic-martin-luther-king-jr-church-to-speak-at-syracuse-university.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://newsone.com/3900825/raphael-warnock-everything-to-know-georgia-senate/ |first=A. |last=Woods |title=Who Is Raphael Warnock?: Everything To Know About Ebenezer Baptist Pastor Running For Georgia Senate |publisher=News One |date=January 30, 2020 |access-date=February 1, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141546/https://newsone.com/3900825/raphael-warnock-everything-to-know-georgia-senate/ |url-status=live }}{{cite book |first1=Ben |last1=Jealous |first2=Trabian |last2=Shorters |title=Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iU5rBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA227 |date=February 3, 2015 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-4767-9983-4 |pages=227– |access-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141446/https://books.google.com/books?id=iU5rBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA227 |url-status=live }}

File:Warnock and Lewis (50335718741).jpg at a "Souls to the Polls" event. Warnock later officiated Lewis's funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church.]]

Warnock began his ministry as an intern and licentiate at the Sixth Avenue Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama,{{Cite web |date=February 21, 2013 |title=Social activist, pastor of historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, to speak at Divinity School |url=https://news.yale.edu/2013/02/21/social-activist-pastor-historic-ebenezer-baptist-church-speak-divinity-school |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130223024018/https://news.yale.edu/2013/02/21/social-activist-pastor-historic-ebenezer-baptist-church-speak-divinity-school |archive-date=February 23, 2013 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |website=YaleNews |language=en}} under the civil rights movement leader John Thomas Porter.{{Cite web |last=Beaumont |first=Peter |date=January 6, 2021 |title=Why Raphael Warnock was elected Georgia's first black US senator |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/06/why-raphael-warnock-was-elected-georgia-first-black-us-senator |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106120046/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/06/why-raphael-warnock-was-elected-georgia-first-black-us-senator |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |website=the Guardian |language=en}} In the 1990s, he served as youth pastor and then assistant pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York.{{cite news |last=Fausset |first=Richard |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/politics/raphael-warnock-ga.html |title=Can Raphael Warnock Go From the Pulpit to the Senate? |date=November 1, 2020 |newspaper=New York Times |access-date=November 20, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141450/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/politics/raphael-warnock-ga.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=King |first=Maya |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/19/raphael-warnock-georgia-republicans-438027 |title=Republicans paint Raphael Warnock as a religious radical |date=November 19, 2020 |work=Politico |access-date=November 20, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141546/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/19/raphael-warnock-georgia-republicans-438027 |url-status=live }} While Warnock was pastor at Abyssinian, the church declined to hire workfare recipients as part of organized opposition to then-mayor Rudy Giuliani's workfare program.{{Cite news|last=Greenhouse|first=Steven|date=August 4, 1997|title=2 Well-Known Churches Say No to Workfare Jobs|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/04/nyregion/2-well-known-churches-say-no-to-workfare-jobs.html|access-date=January 6, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141451/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/04/nyregion/2-well-known-churches-say-no-to-workfare-jobs.html|url-status=live}} The church also hosted Fidel Castro on October 22, 1995, while Warnock was youth pastor. There is no evidence Warnock was involved in that decision. During the 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia, his campaign refused to say whether Warnock attended the event.{{cite web |last=Hollis |first=Henri |date=December 10, 2020 |title=Campaign check: Loeffler tries to link Warnock to Cuban dictator |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/senate-watch/campaign-check-loeffler-tries-to-link-warnock-to-cuban-dictator/4B6IBR72CVB47MV2KNTPLZVPUY/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125102548/https://www.ajc.com/politics/senate-watch/campaign-check-loeffler-tries-to-link-warnock-to-cuban-dictator/4B6IBR72CVB47MV2KNTPLZVPUY/ |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |access-date=January 31, 2021 |website=ajc}}

In January 2001, Warnock was elected senior pastor of Douglas Memorial Community Church in Baltimore, Maryland.{{Cite news|date=January 14, 2001|title=King's speech revered, but call to action missed|language=en-US|work=The Baltimore Sun|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-kings-speech-revered/133342909/|access-date=October 12, 2023}}{{Cite web |date=February 21, 2013 |title=Social activist, pastor of historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, to speak at Divinity School |url=https://news.yale.edu/2013/02/21/social-activist-pastor-historic-ebenezer-baptist-church-speak-divinity-school |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206031707/https://news.yale.edu/2013/02/21/social-activist-pastor-historic-ebenezer-baptist-church-speak-divinity-school |archive-date=December 6, 2022 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |website=YaleNews |language=en}} He and an assistant minister were arrested and charged with obstructing a 2002 police investigation into suspected child abuse at a summer camp run by the church. The police report called Warnock "extremely uncooperative and disruptive". Warnock had demanded that the counselors have lawyers present when being interviewed by police.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/warnock-2002-child-abuse-investigation|title=Warnock allegedly 'extremely uncooperative' during 2002 child-abuse investigation, police records show|first=Morgan|last=Phillips|date=December 9, 2020|website=Fox News|access-date=April 27, 2021|archive-date=October 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005015149/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/warnock-2002-child-abuse-investigation|url-status=live}} The charges were later dropped with the deputy state's attorney's acknowledgment that it had been a "miscommunication", adding that Warnock had aided the investigation and that prosecution would be a waste of resources.{{Cite news|title=2 ministers no longer facing charges of hindering probe|language=en-US|work=baltimoresun.com|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-11-07-0211070352-story.html|access-date=January 2, 2021|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141532/https://www.baltimoresun.com/|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|last=Kertscher|first=Tom|title=PolitiFact - No proof Warnock 'ran over' wife; obstruction case dropped|language=en-US|work=Politifact|url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/16/erick-erickson/no-proof-warnock-ran-over-wife-obstruction-case-dr/|access-date=January 2, 2021|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141548/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/16/erick-erickson/no-proof-warnock-ran-over-wife-obstruction-case-dr/|url-status=live}} Warnock said he was merely asserting that lawyers should be present during the interviews{{cite web |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-08-03-0208030184-story,amp.html |title=City ministers accused of obstructing abuse probe |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=August 3, 2002 |access-date=November 10, 2020 |last1=Walker |first1=Childs |last2=Rivera |first2=John |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141522/https://www.baltimoresun.com/ |url-status=live }} and that he had intervened to ensure that an adult was present while a juvenile suspect was being questioned.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/248367605/?terms=raphael%20warnock&match=1|title=Ministers impeded probe, police allege|work=The News Journal|location=Wilmington, Delaware|page=B5|agency=Associated Press|date=August 4, 2002|access-date=December 11, 2020|via=Newspapers.com|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141554/https://www.newspapers.com/image/248367605/?terms=raphael+warnock&match=1|url-status=live}} Warnock stepped down as the church's senior pastor in 2005.

On Father's Day 2005, Warnock was named senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr.'s former congregation;{{Cite news|title=Lessons learned at dinner table |language=en-US|work=The Atlanta Constitution|last=Blake|first=John|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-lessons-learned/133439373/|date=October 1, 2005}} he is the fifth and the youngest person to serve as Ebenezer's senior pastor since its founding.{{cite news |last1=McMahon |first1=Julie |title=Pastor at historic MLK Jr. church to speak at Syracuse University |url=https://www.syracuse.com/syracuse-university/2019/12/pastor-at-historic-martin-luther-king-jr-church-to-speak-at-syracuse-university.html |access-date=November 21, 2020 |work=Syracuse Post Standard |date=December 18, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141522/https://www.syracuse.com/syracuse-university/2019/12/pastor-at-historic-martin-luther-king-jr-church-to-speak-at-syracuse-university.html |url-status=live }} He has continued in the post while serving in the Senate.{{Cite web |last=Rodriguez |first=Sabrina |date=December 1, 2022 |title=Obama returns to Georgia to rally support for Warnock in tight runoff race |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/obama-warnock-georgia-runoff/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203191338/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/obama-warnock-georgia-runoff/ |archive-date=December 3, 2022 |access-date=December 1, 2022 |website=New York Times}}{{Cite news |last=King |first=Maya |date=October 30, 2022 |title=The Senator-Pastor From Georgia Mixes Politics and Preaching on the Trail |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/us/politics/raphael-warnock-religion-campaign.html |access-date=December 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205090606/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/us/politics/raphael-warnock-religion-campaign.html |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}

As pastor, Warnock advocated for clemency for Troy Davis, who was executed in 2011.{{cite web |date=September 21, 2011 |url=https://www.theroot.com/noted-reverend-on-troy-davis-moral-disaster-1790865952 |first=Joel |last=Dreyfuss |title=Noted Reverend on Troy Davis: 'Moral Disaster' |publisher=Theroot.com |access-date=February 1, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141453/https://www.theroot.com/noted-reverend-on-troy-davis-moral-disaster-1790865952 |url-status=live }} In 2013, he delivered the benediction at the public prayer service at the second inauguration of Barack Obama.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/preachers-pray-for-unity-at-national-cathedral-inaugural-service/2013/01/22/c2ecb2ec-64e0-11e2-889b-f23c246aa446_story.html |title=Preachers pray for unity at National Cathedral inaugural service |first=Adelle M. |last=Banks |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 22, 2013 |access-date=February 1, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141552/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/preachers-pray-for-unity-at-national-cathedral-inaugural-service/2013/01/22/c2ecb2ec-64e0-11e2-889b-f23c246aa446_story.html |url-status=live }} After Fidel Castro died in 2016, Warnock told his church to pray for the Cuban people, calling Castro's legacy "complex, kind of like America's legacy is complex". In March 2019, Warnock hosted an interfaith meeting on climate change at his church, featuring Al Gore and William Barber II.{{cite web |last= |first= |date=March 13, 2019 |title=The Rev. Raphael Warnock, Ebenezer Baptist Church to host interfaith meeting on climate with Al Gore, the Rev. William Barber II |url=https://www.theatlantavoice.com/articles/the-rev-raphael-warnock-ebenezer-baptist-church-to-host-interfaith-meeting-on-climate-with-al-gore-the-rev-william-barber-ii/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141558/https://www.theatlantavoice.com/articles/the-rev-raphael-warnock-ebenezer-baptist-church-to-host-interfaith-meeting-on-climate-with-al-gore-the-rev-william-barber-ii/ |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |access-date=February 1, 2020 |publisher=The Atlanta Voice}} He presided at Representative John Lewis's funeral at Ebenezer Church in July 2020.{{Cite news |last1=Fausset |first1=Richard |last2=Rojas |first2=Rick |date=July 30, 2020 |title=John Lewis, a Man of 'Unbreakable Perseverance,' Is Laid to Rest |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/john-lewis-live-funeral.html |access-date=October 16, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=October 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012163217/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/john-lewis-live-funeral.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Raymond |first=Jonathan |date=July 30, 2020 |title=Rev. Raphael Warnock contrasts John Lewis with those who exhibit 'political cynicism and narcissism' |url=https://www.11alive.com/article/life/people/john-lewis/john-lewis-funeral-raphael-warnock-opening-remarks/85-9f66ab63-c377-4416-b31b-65e5f88be979 |access-date=May 22, 2021 |website=11Alive.com |language=en-US}}

On Easter Sunday 2021, Warnock's Twitter account tweeted, "The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Whether you are a Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others we are able to save ourselves." Some conservative Christians and political commentators criticized the tweet, including Benjamin Watson, Allie Beth Stuckey, and Jenna Ellis, who called it "heretical". The tweet was deleted that afternoon, with a spokesperson for Warnock saying, "the tweet was posted by staff and was not approved" but declining to say whether it reflected Warnock's beliefs.{{Cite news|last=Boorstein|first=Michelle|date=April 5, 2021|title=Sen. Raphael Warnock's deleted Easter tweet reflects religious and political chasms about Christianity|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/04/05/raphael-warnock-deletes-tweet-easter-resurrection-jeremiah-wright/|url-status=live|access-date=May 21, 2021|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-date=April 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210407014100/https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/04/05/raphael-warnock-deletes-tweet-easter-resurrection-jeremiah-wright/}}{{Cite web |last=Ellefson |first=Lindsay |title=Sen Raphael Warnock Deletes Easter Tweet After Backlash From Religious Right |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sen-raphael-warnock-deletes-easter-150618893.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522024102/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sen-raphael-warnock-deletes-easter-150618893.html |archive-date=May 22, 2021 |access-date=May 22, 2021 |website=www.yahoo.com |date=April 5, 2021 |language=en-US}}

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Warnock came to prominence in Georgia politics as a leader in the campaign to expand Medicaid in the state.{{cite web |title='My ideals are driven by my faith': Raphael Warnock on his Senate runoff race |first=Curtis |last=Bunn |date=November 7, 2020 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/my-ideals-are-driven-my-faith-raphael-warnock-his-senate-n1246879 |access-date=November 10, 2020 |website=NBC News |language=en |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141521/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/my-ideals-are-driven-my-faith-raphael-warnock-his-senate-n1246879 |url-status=live }} In 2013, he wrote an editorial for the Atlanta Journal Constitution that criticized Governor Nathan Deal for not supporting an integrated prom at the Wilcox County High School.{{Cite news |last=Warnock |first=Raphael |date=April 24, 2013 |title=Governor should follow students' example |language=en-US |work=Atlanta Journal Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/opinion/governor-should-follow-students-example/9gE6tNHdZV1PGzBNj339xH/}} In March 2014, Warnock led a sit-in at the Georgia State Capitol to press state legislators to accept the expansion of Medicaid offered by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.{{Cite news |last=Buchsbaum |first=Herbert |date=March 18, 2014 |title=Budding Liberal Protest Movements Begin to Take Root in South |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/us/protest-disrupts-georgia-senate-session-on-bill-to-block-medicaid-expansion.html |access-date=December 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203013229/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/us/protest-disrupts-georgia-senate-session-on-bill-to-block-medicaid-expansion.html |archive-date=December 3, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}} He and other leaders were arrested during the protest.{{cite web |url=https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/51-raphael-warnock/ |title=Atlanta's 55 Most Powerful: 51. Raphael Warnock |publisher=Atlantamagazine.com |date=October 1, 2015 |access-date=February 1, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141456/https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/51-raphael-warnock/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/arrests-follow-protests-state-capitol/EOf7FofLcwS6OKQ9i0OQzO/|title=Arrests follow protests at state Capitol|first=Janel|last=Davis|date=March 18, 2014|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=February 1, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141457/https://www.ajc.com/news/arrests-follow-protests-state-capitol/EOf7FofLcwS6OKQ9i0OQzO/|url-status=live}} Warnock also actively campaigned for Georgia Democrats to increase outreach to low-income communities.{{cite web |last=Moser |first=Bob |date=July 29, 2014 |title=A bridge in Georgia |url=https://www.facingsouth.org/2014/07/a-bridge-in-georgia.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111012254/https://www.facingsouth.org/2014/07/a-bridge-in-georgia.html |archive-date=January 11, 2021 |access-date=January 9, 2021 |website=Facing South |publisher=The American Prospect}} In 2015, Warnock considered running in the 2016 election for the United States Senate seat held by Johnny Isakson as a member of the Democratic Party.{{cite web|url=https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/exclusive-pastor-historic-ebenezer-baptist-church-considers-senate-run/QWxTEK6UM7NaO2MojR9StL/|date=August 6, 2015|title=Exclusive: Pastor of historic Ebenezer Baptist Church considers U.S. Senate run|first=Greg|last=Bluestein|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=January 24, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141457/https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/exclusive-pastor-historic-ebenezer-baptist-church-considers-senate-run/QWxTEK6UM7NaO2MojR9StL/|url-status=live}} He opted not to run.{{cite news | url=http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/10/02/pastor-of-mlks-church-will-not-run-for-georgia-senate-seat | title=Pastor of MLK's church will not run for Georgia Senate seat | work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | last=Bluestein | first=Greg | date=October 2, 2015 | access-date=October 3, 2015 | archive-date=July 6, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706150819/http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/10/02/pastor-of-mlks-church-will-not-run-for-georgia-senate-seat/ | url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/the-jolt-raphael-warnock-name-surfaces-potential-challenger-kelly-loeffler/HUBZdlsm7KH6EzYK6LbBDK/|date=January 13, 2020|title=The Jolt: Raphael Warnock prepares to run for Senate against Kelly Loeffler|first1=Jim|last1=Galloway|first2=Greg|last2=Bluestein|first3=Tia|last3=Mitchell|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=January 24, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141500/https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/the-jolt-raphael-warnock-name-surfaces-potential-challenger-kelly-loeffler/HUBZdlsm7KH6EzYK6LbBDK/|url-status=live}}

From June 2017 to January 2020, Warnock chaired the New Georgia Project, a nonpartisan organization founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams and focused on increasing voter registration.{{cite web|date=June 8, 2017|title=Board chair named at the New Georgia Project|work=Valdosta Today|location=Atlanta|url=https://valdostatoday.com/news-2/local/2017/06/board-chair-named-at-the-new-georgia-project/|access-date=September 30, 2020|language=en-US|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141557/https://valdostatoday.com/news-2/local/2017/06/board-chair-named-at-the-new-georgia-project/|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Fausset |first1=Richard |title=Citing 'Soul of Our Democracy,' Pastor of Dr. King's Church Enters Senate Race |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/us/raphael-warnock-ebenezer-baptist-georgia-senate.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 31, 2020 |date=January 30, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141530/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/us/raphael-warnock-ebenezer-baptist-georgia-senate.html |url-status=live }} The New Georgia Project and its affiliate the New Georgia Project Action Fund secretly campaigned for Abrams in her 2018 gubernatorial campaign in Georgia and for other Democratic political campaigns in the state. It also illegally campaigned for an unsuccessful MARTA referendum in Gwinnett County. In 2025, it admitted to 16 violations of state campaign finance laws related to its illegal partisan activities and was ordered to pay $300,000 by the Georgia State Ethics Commission, the largest fine for campaign finance violations in state history. The New Georgia Project raised and spent millions of dollars in its partisan efforts and failed to disclose its activities or properly register as an independent political committee.{{Cite web |title=Stacey Abrams group to pay largest fine for campaign violations in Georgia history |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/election/abrams-group-to-pay-largest-fine-for-campaign-violations-in-georgia-history/3Q3SFGNDNFEXLBIUYUB3ONDRM4/ |date = January 15, 2025 |website=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Nonprofit Founded by Stacey Abrams Admits Secretly Aiding Her 2018 Campaign |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/us/politics/nonprofit-stacey-abrams.html |date = January 15, 2025 |website=The New York Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Stacey Abrams-founded organization fined $300k by State Ethics Commission |url=https://www.11alive.com/article/news/state/new-georgia-project-stacey-abrams-founded-group-fined-state-ethics-commission/85-4813fb35-99e1-473c-99c4-c8ffbe721720 |date = January 15, 2025 |website=11Alive |language=en}}

Warnock supports expanding the Affordable Care Act and has called for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.{{Cite news|last=Fausset|first=Richard|date=November 1, 2020|title=Can Raphael Warnock Go From the Pulpit to the Senate?|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/politics/raphael-warnock-ga.html|access-date=November 10, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141540/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/politics/raphael-warnock-ga.html|url-status=live}} He also supports increasing COVID-19-relief funding.{{Cite news|last=Miao|first=Hannah|date=December 23, 2020|title=Democrats seize on Trump's push for $2,000 stimulus checks for boost in Georgia Senate race|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/23/democrats-use-trump-2000-stimulus-checks-georgia-senate-race.html|work=CNBC|access-date=December 26, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141559/https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/23/democrats-use-trump-2000-stimulus-checks-georgia-senate-race.html|url-status=live}} A proponent of abortion rights and gay marriage, he has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood.{{Cite news|last=Fausset|first=Richard|date=November 1, 2020|title=Can Raphael Warnock Go From the Pulpit to the Senate?|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/politics/raphael-warnock-ga.html|access-date=December 11, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141555/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/politics/raphael-warnock-ga.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|last=Bluestein|first=Greg|title=Georgia Senate: Abortion rights group backs Warnock's bid to unseat Loeffler|url=https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/georgia-senate-abortion-rights-group-backs-warnock-bid-unseat-loeffler/zWvgFfHEP4n0fd7j9EnZMO/|date=May 20, 2020|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=December 11, 2020|language=en|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141502/https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/georgia-senate-abortion-rights-group-backs-warnock-bid-unseat-loeffler/zWvgFfHEP4n0fd7j9EnZMO/|url-status=live}} He opposes the concealed carry of firearms, saying that religious leaders do not want guns in places of worship.{{cite news|url=https://www.wabe.org/gun-control-advocates-decry-revamped-house-gun-bill/|title=Gun Control Advocates Decry Revamped House Gun Bill|first=Michell|last=Eloy|work=WABE|date=March 12, 2014|access-date=December 11, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141532/https://www.wabe.org/gun-control-advocates-decry-revamped-house-gun-bill/|url-status=live}} Warnock has long opposed the death penalty.{{Cite news|last=Suggs|first=Ernie|date=October 7, 2020|title=Profile of Raphel Warnock, candidate for George U.S. Senate|work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/warnock-election-profile/I3BUA24NKFHXVIUU3R3NG3WV2U/|access-date=December 15, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141510/https://www.ajc.com/politics/warnock-election-profile/I3BUA24NKFHXVIUU3R3NG3WV2U/|url-status=live}}

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In January 2020, Warnock decided to run in the 2020 special election for the United States Senate seat held by Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed after Johnny Isakson's resignation.{{cite web|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/raphael-warnock-pastor-famed-church-enters-georgia-senate-race/sDPRVuKbd2w1QPZtrQrjMK/|title=Raphael Warnock, pastor of famed church, enters Georgia Senate race|first=Greg|last=Bluestein|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|date=January 30, 2020|access-date=January 31, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141602/https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/raphael-warnock-pastor-famed-church-enters-georgia-senate-race/sDPRVuKbd2w1QPZtrQrjMK/|url-status=live}} Stacey Abrams encouraged him to run and coordinated his support from Democratic leadership.{{Cite web |title=Abrams' aide says Democrat had 'nearly impossible' chance to beat Kemp |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/abrams-aide-says-democrat-had-nearly-impossible-chance-to-beat-kemp/FRFPNUOC2BAK3GLJYBRGCXZKA4/ |access-date=December 10, 2022 |website=ajc |language=English}} He was endorsed by Democratic senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker, Sherrod Brown, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jeff Merkley, Chris Murphy, Bernie Sanders, Brian Schatz, and Elizabeth Warren; the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; Stacey Abrams; and former presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter.{{Cite news |last1=Bluestein |first1=Greg |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |title=Jimmy Carter backs Warnock in crowded U.S. Senate race in Georgia |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/jimmy-carter-backs-warnock-in-crowded-us-senate-race-in-georgia/64CJQ3T7GBFRJM7EJJYUV7S2UE/ |date=September 29, 2020 |access-date=October 4, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141510/https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/jimmy-carter-backs-warnock-in-crowded-us-senate-race-in-georgia/64CJQ3T7GBFRJM7EJJYUV7S2UE/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/30/abrams-democrats-rally-georgia-senate-race-109561|title=Stacey Abrams, Dems rally around pastor in burgeoning Georgia Senate race|last=Arkin|first=James|date=January 30, 2020|access-date=January 30, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141540/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/30/abrams-democrats-rally-georgia-senate-race-109561|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethWarren/photos/a.414227908686/10157656514423687/ |title=Elizabeth Warren |website=Facebook |quote=As a champion for fair wages, Reverend Raphael Warnock has stood up for working families for years. I'm proud to endorse him because I know with him in the Senate, Georgians will have a leader with the courage and conviction to put working families first. |date=June 15, 2020 |access-date=June 16, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141512/https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethWarren/photos/a.414227908686/10157656514423687/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-endorses-warnock-crowded-georgia-senate-race-73241066 |title=Obama endorses Warnock in crowded Georgia Senate race |last=Nadler |first=Ben |website=ABC News |date=September 25, 2020 |access-date=September 25, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141515/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-endorses-warnock-crowded-georgia-senate-race-73241066 |url-status=live }} Several players of the Atlanta Dream, a WNBA team Loeffler co-owned at the time, wore shirts endorsing Warnock in response to controversial comments Loeffler made about the Black Lives Matter movement.{{cite news |last1=Deb |first1=Sopan |title=W.N.B.A. Players Escalate Protest of Anti-B.L.M. Team Owner |date=August 5, 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/sports/basketball/wnba-dream-loeffler-warnock.html |website=The New York Times |page=B9 |access-date=August 20, 2020 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141534/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/sports/basketball/wnba-dream-loeffler-warnock.html |url-status=live }}

The closing argument of Warnock's campaign focused on the $2,000 stimulus payments that he and Ossoff promised to approve if they were elected and thus gave Democrats a U.S. Senate majority.{{cite news|last=Kapur|first=Sahil|date=January 5, 2021|title=In Georgia, Democrats close with populist pitch vowing $2,000 stimulus checks|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/georgia-democrats-close-populist-pitch-vowing-2-000-stimulus-checks-n1252805|access-date=January 5, 2021|website=NBC News|language=en-US|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141559/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/georgia-democrats-close-populist-pitch-vowing-2-000-stimulus-checks-n1252805|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |last1=Stein |first1=Jeff |last2=Werner |first2=Erica |date=January 6, 2021 |title=$2,000 stimulus checks could become a reality with Democratic control of the Senate |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/06/georgia-election-2000-stimulus-checks/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107090139/https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/06/georgia-election-2000-stimulus-checks/ |archive-date=January 7, 2021}}

In the January 5 runoff election, Warnock defeated Loeffler with 51.04% of the vote. With this victory, he became the first African American to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate, the first black Democratic U.S. senator representing a Southern state, and the first black Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate by a former state of the Confederacy.{{cite news

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}} Warnock and Ossoff are the first Democrats elected to the U.S. Senate from Georgia since Zell Miller in 2000. On January 7, Loeffler conceded.{{cite news|author=Ryan Nobles and Caroline Kenny|title=Loeffler concedes Georgia Senate runoff to Warnock|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/georgia-senate-runoff-loeffler-warnock/index.html|access-date=January 10, 2021|website=CNN|archive-date=January 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111073042/https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/georgia-senate-runoff-loeffler-warnock/index.html|url-status=live}} The election result was certified on January 19.{{Cite news|last1=Gardner|first1=Amy|last2=Werner|first2=Erica|date=January 19, 2021|title=Georgia certifies Ossoff and Warnock victories, paving way for Democratic control of Senate|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/georgia-certifies-ossoff-warnock-victories-paving-way-for-democratic-control-of-senate/2021/01/19/8b9cf672-5a59-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html|access-date=January 19, 2021|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=January 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119180221/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/georgia-certifies-ossoff-warnock-victories-paving-way-for-democratic-control-of-senate/2021/01/19/8b9cf672-5a59-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html|url-status=live}}

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On January 27, 2021, Warnock announced that he would seek election to a full term in 2022.{{cite tweet|first=Reverend Raphael |last=Warnock|user=ReverendWarnock|date=January 27, 2021|title=Thanks to your support, we made history and flipped Georgia blue. But I'm already up for re-election, and Republicans are making plans right now to turn GA red again. Will you chip in $5 right now to jumpstart our re-election campaign?|number=1354586487145160707|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531152529/https://twitter.com/ReverendWarnock/status/1354586487145160707|archive-date=May 31, 2022|access-date=February 12, 2021}}

Since no candidate received a majority of the vote in the general election on November 8, 2022, Warnock faced Walker in a runoff election on December 6, and won.{{Cite news |last=Dorn |first=Sara |date=November 9, 2022 |title=Walker, Warnock Headed For A Runoff In Georgia Senate Race |work=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/11/09/walker-warnock-headed-for-a-runoff-in-georgia-senate-race/ |url-status=live |access-date=November 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221111234703/https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/11/09/walker-warnock-headed-for-a-runoff-in-georgia-senate-race/?sh=6d571faf2d7b |archive-date=November 11, 2022}}{{cite web | url=https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/raphael-warnock-wins-georgia-senate-runoff-election-2022-rcna53201 | title=Raphael Warnock defeats Herschel Walker in Georgia Senate race | website=MSNBC | date=December 7, 2022 }} He became the first Georgia Democrat to win reelection to the Senate since Sam Nunn in 1990{{cite web |date= December 6, 2022 |title=Raphael Warnock wins the Georgia Senate runoff {{!}} Fast facts about his victory |url=https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/who-won-georgia-senate-runoff-raphael-warnock/85-1ce67c19-b553-4f86-a0bc-fb7df1dd3ff6 |access-date=December 7, 2022 |website=11Alive.com |language=en-US}} and the first Deep South Democrat to win reelection to the Senate since Mary Landrieu of Louisiana in 2008.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/06/us/warnock-walker-georgia-senate-runoff | title=Warnock Beats Walker, Giving Democrats 51st Senate Seat | work=The New York Times | date=December 6, 2022 | last1=Weisman | first1=Jonathan | last2=King | first2=Maya }}

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On January 20, 2021, Warnock was sworn into the United States Senate in the 117th Congress by Vice President Kamala Harris alongside newly elected Senator Jon Ossoff and former California Secretary of State Alex Padilla. Warnock was escorted by Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia.{{Cite web |date=January 20, 2021 |title=WATCH: Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock and Alex Padilla sworn into U.S. Senate, giving Democrats control |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-georgia-democrats-jon-ossoff-and-raphael-warnock-sworn-into-u-s-senate |access-date=October 16, 2022 |website=PBS NewsHour |language=en-us |archive-date=June 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623205338/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-georgia-democrats-jon-ossoff-and-raphael-warnock-sworn-into-u-s-senate |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Hayes |first=Christal |title=Democrats officially take control of Senate after Harris swears in Ossoff, Warnock and Padilla |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/20/warnock-ossoff-sworn-in-giving-democrats-majority-senate/4217985001/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023171322/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/20/warnock-ossoff-sworn-in-giving-democrats-majority-senate/4217985001/ |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |access-date=October 23, 2022 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last1=Harper |first1=Averi |last2=Thorbecke |first2=Catherine |date=January 20, 2021 |title=Kamala Harris swears in 3 senators making their own history |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kamala-harris-set-swear-historic-senators/story?id=75352575 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109234315/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kamala-harris-set-swear-historic-senators/story?id=75352575 |archive-date=November 9, 2022 |access-date=October 23, 2022 |website=ABC News |language=en}}

On February 13, 2021, Warnock voted to convict former president Donald Trump of inciting the January 6 United States Capitol attack.{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/|title=The Voter's Self Defense System|website=Vote Smart|access-date=June 14, 2021|archive-date=December 9, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209180811/http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=MTX03265|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |last=Booker |first=Brakkton |date=February 13, 2021 |title=Trump Impeachment Trial Verdict: How Senators Voted |language=en |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-trial-live-updates/2021/02/13/967539051/trump-impeachment-trial-verdict-how-senators-voted |access-date=December 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031075937/http://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-trial-live-updates/2021/02/13/967539051/trump-impeachment-trial-verdict-how-senators-voted |archive-date=October 31, 2022}}

On March 5, 2021, Warnock and 29 other Democratic and independent senators co-sponsored an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/amendment/117th-congress/senate-amendment/972/cosponsors|title=S.Amdt.972 to S.Amdt.891 to H.R.1319 - 117th Congress (2021-2022) - Cosponsors|first=Bernard|last=Sanders|date=March 5, 2021|website=www.congress.gov|access-date=March 16, 2021|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614212749/https://www.congress.gov/amendment/117th-congress/senate-amendment/972/cosponsors|url-status=live}}

On March 17, 2021, he delivered his first speech on the Senate floor, in support of the passage of the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.{{cite web|title=Warnock, in first floor speech, champions federal voting laws to blunt GA's proposed restrictions|first=Tia|last=Mitchell|date=March 17, 2021|publisher=AJC|url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/warnock-in-first-floor-speech-will-blast-proposed-voting-restrictions-in-georgia/}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

In January 2022, when Johnny Isakson, a former U.S. senator from Georgia, died, Warnock introduced a Senate resolution to honor Isakson, which was enacted with bipartisan support. Warnock called Isakson "a patriot, a public servant" who "knew how to show up for people".{{cite news |last1=Nunez |first1=Gabriella |title=Sen. Rev. Warnock honors legacy of Johnny Isakson on the Senate floor |url=https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/warnock-honors-legacy-of-johnny-isakson-in-congress/85-3ab14ddd-31ea-4917-9fae-f02fd798c187 |access-date=November 12, 2022 |work=11Alive |date=January 6, 2022}}{{cite news |date=January 5, 2022 |title=Senate passes unanimous resolution honoring late Sen. Johnny Isakson |work=Fox 5 Atlanta |url=https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/senate-passes-unanimous-resolution-honoring-late-sen-johnny-isakson |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112022408/https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/senate-passes-unanimous-resolution-honoring-late-sen-johnny-isakson |archive-date=November 12, 2022}}

In October 2022, a bill by Warnock and Senator Jon Ossoff was enacted into law, naming a United States Post Office building in Atlanta, Georgia after John Lewis, who was a U.S. representative for Atlanta until his death in 2020.{{cite news |last1=Nunez |first1=Gabriella |title=Atlanta's John R. Lewis Post Office is now established in his former congressional district |url=https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/john-lewis-post-office/85-67cb8cd8-cfb6-47bd-961d-468782f906ed |access-date=November 30, 2022 |work=11Alive |date=October 4, 2022}}{{Cite web |last1=Figueroa |first1=Ariana |date=February 2, 2022 |title=U.S. House votes to name Atlanta post office for the late Rep. John Lewis |url=https://georgiarecorder.com/brief/u-s-house-votes-to-name-atlanta-post-office-for-the-late-rep-john-lewis/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205040837/https://georgiarecorder.com/brief/u-s-house-votes-to-name-atlanta-post-office-for-the-late-rep-john-lewis/ |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |access-date=December 5, 2022 |website=Georgia Recorder |language=en-US}}

In September 2023, Warnock was the only Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee to vote against the Secure and Fair Enforcement Regulation (SAFER) Banking Act, which provides a safe harbor for legal state-level marijuana dispensaries and growers to access federally regulated banks.{{cite news |last1=Glorno |first1=Taylor |title=Cannabis banking bill clears Senate committee |url=https://thehill.com/business/4225888-quite-a-journey-cannabis-banking-bill-clears-senate-committee/ |access-date=October 15, 2023 |work=The Hill |date=September 27, 2023}}

Warnock has been assigned to the following committees for the 117th United States Congress:{{cite web|last=Mitchell|first=Tia|date=|title=Ossoff, Warnock receive their Senate committee assignments|url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/ossoff-warnock-receive-their-senate-committee-assignments/IB33TPH2FFHE3L7RF2LLSDSVFU/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202204806/https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/ossoff-warnock-receive-their-senate-committee-assignments/IB33TPH2FFHE3L7RF2LLSDSVFU/|archive-date=February 2, 2021|access-date=February 2, 2021|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|language=English}}

• Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
• Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade (Chair)
• Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research
• Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security
• Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
• Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation
• Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband
• Subcommittee on Space and Science
• Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports
• Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
• Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment
• Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
• Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection (Chair)
• Congressional Joint Economic Committee
• Special Committee on Aging

• Congressional Black Caucus{{Cite web |title=Congressional Black Caucus |url=https://cbc.house.gov/membership/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205001139/https://cbc.house.gov/membership/ |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |access-date=October 23, 2022 |website=cbc.house.gov |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Tia |title=Georgia lawmakers welcome return of Black Caucus conference, festivities |language=English |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-lawmakers-welcome-return-of-black-caucus-conference-festivities/IZEO7NIKPZEBLJLYLGAG62B7NE/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |issn=1539-7459}}
• Rare Disease Caucus{{cite web|title=Rare Disease Congressional Caucus|author=|url=https://everylifefoundation.org/rare-advocates/rarecaucus/rarecaucus-members/|format=|publisher=Every Life Foundation for Rare Diseases|date=|accessdate=21 March 2025}}

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In April 2021, Politico reported that Warnock, as a U.S. senator, had embraced "a progressive agenda".{{cite news |last1=Everett |first1=Burgess |last2=Arkin |first2=James |title=Democrats' surprising 2-man team to hold the Senate |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/27/democrats-warnock-kelly-election-484742 |access-date=June 14, 2021 |work=POLITICO |date=April 27, 2021 |language=en |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324062949/https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/27/democrats-warnock-kelly-election-484742 |url-status=live }} As of December 2022, Warnock had voted in line with President Joe Biden's stated position 96.5% of the time.{{cite news |url=https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-congress-votes/raphael-g-warnock/ |title=Does Your Member Of Congress Vote With Or Against Biden? – Raphael Warnock |first1=Aaron |last1=Bycoffe |last2=Silver |first2=Nate |work=FiveThirtyEight |publisher=ABC News |access-date=June 1, 2022 |archive-date=February 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211072900/https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-congress-votes/raphael-g-warnock/ |url-status=dead }}

According to GovTrack, for Warnock's Senate term from 2021 to 2023, he was ranked "most politically right" of all Senate Democrats in the 117th Congress, and was noted to have joined "bipartisan bills the 2nd most often" of all Senate Democrats in the 117th Congress.{{cite news |title=Sen. Raphael Warnock's 2022 Report Card |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/raphael_warnock/456858/report-card/2022 |access-date=April 26, 2023 |work=GovTrack |date=February 12, 2023}}

Warnock has described himself as a "pro-choice pastor".{{cite news |last1=Ziegler |first1=Mary |title=How Raphael Warnock Came to Be an Abortion-Rights Outlier |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/liberal-religion-abortion/617491/ |access-date=February 18, 2021 |work=The Atlantic |date=December 31, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=February 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211072847/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/liberal-religion-abortion/617491/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=King |first=Maya |date=May 11, 2022 |title=How abortion is already animating the Senate race in Georgia. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/us/politics/georgia-senate-race-abortion.html |access-date=December 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205040839/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/us/politics/georgia-senate-race-abortion.html |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}

In December 2020, during Warnock's Senate campaign, a group of 25 black ministers wrote him an open letter asking him to reconsider his abortion stance, calling it "contrary to Christian teachings" and saying that abortion disproportionately affects African Americans. The Warnock campaign responded with a statement, writing that "Warnock believes a patient's room is too small a place for a woman, her doctor, and the U.S. government and that these are deeply personal health care decisions – not political ones."{{cite web|url=https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2020/12/14/raphael-warnock-abortion-stance-criticized-black-pastors/6529810002/|title=Group of Black pastors criticizes Senate candidate Raphael Warnock for his abortion stance|first=Will|last=Peebles|website=Savannah Morning News|access-date=January 11, 2021|archive-date=May 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514203402/https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2020/12/14/raphael-warnock-abortion-stance-criticized-black-pastors/6529810002/|url-status=live}}

Warnock called the June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade "misguided" and "devastating for women and families in Georgia and nationwide."{{cite web |last1=Warnock |first1=Raphael |date=June 24, 2022 |title="The Supreme Court's misguided decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is devastating for women and families in Georgia and nationwide." |url=https://twitter.com/SenatorWarnock/status/1540339779048542209 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005021536/https://twitter.com/SenatorWarnock/status/1540339779048542209 |archive-date=October 5, 2022 |access-date=June 24, 2022 |website=Twitter |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Bluestein |first=Greg |date=June 24, 2022 |title=Abortion ruling likely shifts focus of Georgia 2022 campaigns |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/abortion-ruling-likely-shifts-focus-of-georgia-2022-campaigns/HSAW7MZDJBG5NI76IXY5U4FGLY/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205040839/https://www.ajc.com/politics/abortion-ruling-likely-shifts-focus-of-georgia-2022-campaigns/HSAW7MZDJBG5NI76IXY5U4FGLY/ |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |access-date=December 5, 2022 |website=ajc |language=English}}{{Cite web |date=June 24, 2022 |title=Georgia lawmakers, leaders react to overturning of Roe v. Wade |url=https://www.11alive.com/article/news/national/georgia-lawmakers-leaders-overturning-of-roe-v-wade/85-0c5c58c5-a0d1-4210-9f96-937dcf1741d1 |access-date=December 5, 2022 |website=11Alive.com |language=en-US}}

Warnock was the main sponsor of S.278 - Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act of 2021.{{Cite web |title=Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act of 2021 (S. 278) |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s278 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025013611/https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s278 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |access-date=October 23, 2022 |website=GovTrack.us |language=en}} The bill would aid historically disaffected minority groups in the agriculture sector.{{cite news| last=Wiley|first=Kenny|work=The Bryan-College Station Eagle|url=https://theeagle.com/news/local/usda-prairie-view-a-m-leaders-discuss-debt-relief-plan-for-farmers-of-color/article_c8082a60-d082-11eb-980c-1b41163aceb2.html | title=USDA, Prairie View A&M leaders discuss debt relief plan for farmers of color | date=June 19, 2021|access-date=October 4, 2022 | archive-date=April 17, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417161008/https://theeagle.com/news/local/usda-prairie-view-a-m-leaders-discuss-debt-relief-plan-for-farmers-of-color/article_c8082a60-d082-11eb-980c-1b41163aceb2.html#:~:text=The%20provision%2C%20the%20Emergency%20Relief%20for%20Farmers%20of,Native%20American%20and%20Asian%20American%20farmers%20and%20ranchers | url-status=live }}

Warnock worked with Senator Tommy Tuberville to reduce barriers to trade for peanut exports in order to assist peanut farmers in Georgia.{{cite news |last1=Kenmore |first1=Abraham |date=October 14, 2022 |title=Abortion? Inflation? What will Herschel Walker-Raphael Warnock U.S. Senate debate cover? |work=Savannah Morning News |url=https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/14/herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-debate-may-cover-abortion-joe-biden-qualifications/10465882002/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206035437/https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/14/herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-debate-may-cover-abortion-joe-biden-qualifications/10465882002/ |archive-date=December 6, 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Kruse |first1=Michael |date=August 5, 2022 |title='There's Never Been Anybody Like Him in the United States Senate' |work=Politico Magazine |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/05/raphael-warnock-georgia-senate-2022-profile-00049352 |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128235459/https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/05/raphael-warnock-georgia-senate-2022-profile-00049352 |archive-date=November 28, 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Warren |first1=Michael |date=October 14, 2022 |title=In battleground Georgia, the Kemp-Warnock voter is the target for both parties in 2022 and beyond |work=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/14/politics/kemp-warnock-split-ticket/index.html |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027052524/https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/14/politics/kemp-warnock-split-ticket/index.html |archive-date=October 27, 2022}}

Warnock opposes the death penalty.{{Cite news |last=Scott |first=Eugene |date=January 6, 2021 |title=Analysis {{!}} What you need to know about Raphael Warnock |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/06/who-is-raphael-warnock/ |access-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214223141/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/06/who-is-raphael-warnock/ |archive-date=February 14, 2021 |issn=0190-8286}} He unsuccessfully attempted to stop the execution of death-row inmate Troy Davis, who had been convicted of the 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia.

After President Joe Biden recommended in March 2022 that the Air National Guard's Combat Readiness Training Center in Savannah, Georgia, be closed, Warnock was one of several Georgia lawmakers to oppose the move, calling Biden's recommendation "bad for Savannah and bad for our national security"; the Appropriations subcommittee of the House of Representatives rejected the recommendation in June 2022.{{cite news |last1=Mitchell |first1=Tia |title=U.S. House subcommittee rejects Biden plan to close Savannah military facility |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/us-house-committee-rejects-biden-plan-to-close-savannah-military-facility/2OSTD65J75CMJIPUU7LNAP3YYI/ |access-date=November 30, 2022 |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221112124659/https://www.ajc.com/politics/us-house-committee-rejects-biden-plan-to-close-savannah-military-facility/2OSTD65J75CMJIPUU7LNAP3YYI/ |date=June 20, 2022}}

Warnock supported the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, which provides funding for defense purposes, saying: "Georgia is an important military state ... Fort Stewart will get an upgrade in its energy plant to the tune of $22 million. There is also $100 million in this bill for barracks at Fort Stewart. We have to make sure that those who we ask to serve have what they need in order to serve".{{cite news |last1=Coy |first1=Greg |date=December 1, 2021 |title=Georgia senator says NDAA will benefit military bases in Savannah |work=WJCL (TV) |url=https://www.wjcl.com/article/georgia-senator-says-ndaa-will-benefit-military-bases-in-savannah/38406212 |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126084700/https://www.wjcl.com/article/georgia-senator-says-ndaa-will-benefit-military-bases-in-savannah/38406212 |archive-date=January 26, 2022}} The barracks are slated to house over 370 soldiers.{{cite news |date=September 29, 2021 |title=New housing facility coming to Fort Stewart |work=WTOC-TV |url=https://www.wtoc.com/2021/09/28/new-housing-facility-coming-fort-stewart/ |access-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130124952/https://www.wtoc.com/2021/09/28/new-housing-facility-coming-fort-stewart/ |archive-date=November 30, 2022}}

Warnock worked together with Senator Ted Cruz to introduce legislation to prioritize the building of Interstate 14, connecting Augusta, Macon and Columbus in Georgia to Texas; Warnock said that the interstate would be "helpful for our military installations" and "for the economy in this region".{{cite news |last1=Volk |first1=Will |date=August 21, 2021 |title=Warnock visits Augusta, discusses plans for I-14 to stretch from Texas to CSRA |work=WRDW-TV |url=https://www.wrdw.com/2021/08/21/warnock-visits-augusta-discusses-plans-i-14-stretch-texas-csra/ |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822032751/https://www.wrdw.com/2021/08/21/warnock-visits-augusta-discusses-plans-i-14-stretch-texas-csra/ |archive-date=August 22, 2021}} The prioritization was ultimately approved within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that passed in November 2021, with the interstate slated to also pass through Midland–Odessa, Texas; Alexandria, Louisiana; Laurel, Mississippi; and Montgomery, Alabama.{{cite news |date=November 15, 2021 |title=Congress designates Interstate 14 across five states with I-14 corridor through San Angelo |work=San Angelo Standard-Times |url=https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/2021/11/15/five-state-14-designation-now-final-infrastructure-bill/8630360002/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112024407/https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/2021/11/15/five-state-14-designation-now-final-infrastructure-bill/8630360002/ |archive-date=November 12, 2022}}

Warnock has helped to obtain millions in funding for the Port of Savannah and for the new Northeast Georgia Inland Port in Hall County, Georgia.{{cite news |last1=Bunch |first1=Riley |date=October 21, 2022 |title=U.S. Senate race voter guide: Warnock, Walker on the issues |work=Georgia Public Broadcasting |url=https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/10/21/us-senate-race-voter-guide-warnock-walker-on-the-issues |access-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202183352/https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/12/02/us-senate-race-voter-guide-warnock-walker-on-the-issues |archive-date=December 2, 2022}}{{Cite web |date=June 13, 2021 |title=Inland rail port for NE Georgia getting $2M federal grant |url=https://apnews.com/article/ga-state-wire-georgia-business-c0c268028cced1462caaa83cdff97458 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022084323/https://apnews.com/article/ga-state-wire-georgia-business-c0c268028cced1462caaa83cdff97458 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |access-date=December 5, 2022 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}

Warnock supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.{{cite news|url=https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/warnock-stimulus-package-minimum-wage-voting-rights/85-891892a7-3101-4bc9-922c-fae20a896605|title=Senator Warnock on stimulus package, federal minimum wage, and voting rights bills|orig-date= March 5, 2021|date=March 6, 2021| last=Ford|first=Hope| work= 11 Alive, WXIA-TV}}{{Cite web |last=Iacurci |first=Greg |date=January 6, 2021 |title=$15 minimum wage edges closer as Democrats win Senate control |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/georgia-election-result-puts-15-federal-minimum-wage-closer.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518144445/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/georgia-election-result-puts-15-federal-minimum-wage-closer.html |archive-date=May 18, 2022 |website=CNBC |language=en}}

In 2022, Warnock emphasized the importance of the national climate bill within his campaign.{{Cite news |last=Lutz |first=Meris |title=Climate change remains partisan issue in Georgia elections |language=English |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/climate-change-remains-partisan-issue-in-georgia-elections/3GCWTYWTY5BXJLNEMZKLQI4ZCE/ |access-date=December 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109233621/https://www.ajc.com/news/climate-change-remains-partisan-issue-in-georgia-elections/3GCWTYWTY5BXJLNEMZKLQI4ZCE/ |archive-date=November 9, 2022 |issn=1539-7459}} Warnock referenced the contaminated water and air in Black and brown communities, such as the water crises in Jackson, Mississippi, and Flint, Michigan, and the burden placed on low-income families that pay a larger portion of their income on utilities.

After attending a groundbreaking at Hyundai's electric vehicle plant in Savannah, Georgia alongside Governor Brian Kemp, Warnock told reporters that climate policy is a "moral" issue.{{Cite web |last=Waldman |first=Scott |title=Young Climate Voters Could Tilt Georgia's Runoff Election for Senate |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/young-climate-voters-could-tilt-georgias-runoff-election-for-senate/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129052333/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/young-climate-voters-could-tilt-georgias-runoff-election-for-senate/ |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |access-date=December 6, 2022 |website=Scientific American |language=en}} He said, "I've also put forward a lot of legislation focused on creating a green energy future, everything from electric vehicles to electric batteries being manufactured in the state to investing in solar manufacturing".

Warnock was a cosponsor of the Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 2022,{{Cite web |title=Senator Raphael G. Warnock (1969 - ) |url=https://www.congress.gov/member/raphael-warnock/W000790?q=%7B%22subject%22%3A%22Environmental+Protection%22%7D}} a bipartisan bill that "requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a pilot grant program for improving recycling accessibility in communities".{{Cite web |title=S.3742 - Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 2022 |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3742?s=1&r=1}}

Warnock received a grade of "F" from the NRA Political Victory Fund during his Senate campaign.{{cite web |title=NRAPVF {{!}} Grades {{!}} Georgia |url=http://nrapvf.org/grades/georgia |website=nrapvf.org |publisher=NRA-PVF |access-date=30 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105152933/http://nrapvf.org/grades/georgia |archive-date=January 5, 2021 |language=en-US |url-status=usurped}} The NRA accused him of supporting the criminalization of private gun transfers and banning standard-issue magazines, and it endorsed Loeffler.{{cite web|title=Defend Freedom. Defeat Raphael Warnock.|url=https://www.nrapvf.org/campaigns/2020/raphael-warnock/|access-date=April 6, 2021|website=NRA-PVF|language=en|archive-date=March 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326130646/https://www.nrapvf.org/campaigns/2020/raphael-warnock/|url-status=live}} In 2014, Warnock gave a sermon in which he criticized Georgia's gun laws, saying that "somebody decided that they had the bright idea to pass a piece of legislation that would allow guns and concealed weapons to be carried in churches. Have you ever been to a church meeting?... Whoever thought of that had never been to a church meeting."{{cite web|last=Richardson|first=Valerie|date=December 1, 2020|title=NRA ad rips Georgia Democrat Warnock for joking about concealed-carry in church|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/1/warnock-ripped-nra-ad-mocking-concealed-carry-chur/|url-status=live|access-date=April 6, 2021|website=The Washington Times|language=en-US|archive-date=March 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329021210/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/1/warnock-ripped-nra-ad-mocking-concealed-carry-chur/}}

In October 2021, Warnock and Ossoff said that they had obtained federal funding under the American Rescue Plan for health centers across Georgia, including two in Macon and four in Albany, each of which received between $500,000 to $1,100,000.{{cite news |last1=Helm |first1=Clare |date=October 5, 2021 |title=Macon community health centers get $1.3M in American Rescue Plan funds |work=WGXA |url=https://wgxa.tv/news/local/macon-community-health-centers-get-13m-in-american-rescue-plan-funds |access-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130091826/https://wgxa.tv/news/local/macon-community-health-centers-get-13m-in-american-rescue-plan-funds |archive-date=November 30, 2022}}{{cite news |date=October 5, 2021 |title=Albany community health centers get $2.8M in American Rescue Plan funds |work=WXFL |url=https://wfxl.com/news/local/albany-community-health-centers-get-28m-in-american-rescue-plan-funds |access-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130131337/https://wfxl.com/news/local/albany-community-health-centers-get-28m-in-american-rescue-plan-funds |archive-date=November 30, 2022}} Reacting to this, Warnock affirmed his support for the American Rescue Plan, saying: "We must continue to do all we can to provide support and funding to our health care infrastructure and workers on the front lines of this pandemic."

A bipartisan bill on maternal health by Warnock and Senator Marco Rubio was incorporated into a $1.5 trillion federal spending package that passed Congress in March 2022.{{cite news |last1=Ford |first1=Hope |title=Georgia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the nation. Here's how the government spending plan can help |url=https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/senator-raphael-warnock-maternal-healthcare-bill/85-43f54fc4-68b8-4e9c-859d-3af479166f74 |access-date=November 30, 2022 |work=11Alive |date=March 10, 2022}} Warnock's bill allocated $50 million for integrated healthcare services grants, $45 million to innovation grants, $25 million for training of healthcare workers, and approval of a study on how to teach health professionals to reduce discrimination. Warnock said, "Georgia is dead last when it comes to women and their access to healthcare" and that the bill's aim was "to make sure that when women are trying to bring a child in this world, they don't have to do so with one foot in the grave".

In August 2022, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which included two proposals by Warnock: a $2,000 annual limit on prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare, and a $35 monthly limit on insulin costs for people on Medicare.{{cite news |last1=Bunch |first1=Riley |date=August 8, 2022 |title=Georgia Democrats score legislative wins in Senate spending bill |work=Georgia Public Broadcasting |url=https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/08/08/georgia-democrats-score-legislative-wins-in-senate-spending-bill |access-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130135250/https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/08/08/georgia-democrats-score-legislative-wins-in-senate-spending-bill |archive-date=November 30, 2022}} Republican lawmakers removed a third proposal by Warnock that would have imposed a $35 monthly limit on out-of-pocket insulin costs for people on private insurance.

Warnock criticized Trump's "shithole countries" comment in 2018 and his subsequent signing of a proclamation honoring Martin Luther King Jr., saying, "I would argue that a proclamation without an apology is hypocrisy. There is no redemption without repentance and the president of the United States needs to repent."{{cite web|title=CNN.com - Transcripts|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/14/sotu.01.html|access-date=April 5, 2021|website=transcripts.cnn.com|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614212832/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/14/sotu.01.html|url-status=live}}

Warnock also has supported keeping Title 42 expulsions, saying, "We need assurances that we have security at the border and that we protect communities on this side of the border."{{Cite web |last1=Mitchell |first1=Tia |last2=Murphy |first2=Patricia |last3=Bluestein |first3=Greg |title=The Jolt: Immigrant groups unhappy with Warnock criticism of new border policy |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-immigrant-groups-unhappy-with-warnock-criticism-of-new-border-policy/A4R3Q3N62VHPZBHWTCYYKNYD3Q/?outputType=amp |access-date=May 15, 2022 |website=Political Insider (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) |language=English |archive-date=May 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515004316/https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-immigrant-groups-unhappy-with-warnock-criticism-of-new-border-policy/A4R3Q3N62VHPZBHWTCYYKNYD3Q/?outputType=amp |url-status=live }}

In 2025, Warnock was one of 12 Senate Democrats who joined all Republicans to vote for the Laken Riley Act.{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5095996-senate-passes-laken-riley-act/|title=Senate passes Laken Riley Act in first move after Trump inauguration|work=The Hill|first=Al|last=Weaver|date=January 20, 2025|accessdate=January 20, 2025}}

Warnock was endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign in 2020 and 2022 for his views on LGBTQ rights.{{cite web|url=https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/hrc-endorses-warnock-for-u-s-senate-bush-and-williams-for-u-s-house|title=HRC Endorses Warnock for U.S. Senate, Bush and Williams for U.S. House|date=September 22, 2022|access-date=October 15, 2023}}{{cite web|last1=Luneau|first1=Delphine|url=https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-congratulates-senator-raphael-warnock-pledges-continued-support-as-he-heads-to-december-runoff-election|title=Human Rights Campaign Congratulates Senator Raphael Warnock, Pledges Continued Support as He Heads to December Runoff Election|date=November 9, 2022|access-date=October 15, 2023}} He supports the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.{{cite web|last1=Bauer|first1=Sydney|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lgbtq-georgians-hopeful-following-warnock-ossoff-senate-victories-n1253485|title=LGBTQ Georgians hopeful following Warnock, Ossoff Senate victories|work=NBC News|date=January 9, 2021|access-date=March 12, 2021|archive-date=February 11, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211073854/https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lgbtq-georgians-hopeful-following-warnock-ossoff-senate-victories-n1253485|url-status=live}} Warnock also supported and cosponsored the Respect for Marriage Act, which would codify same-sex and interracial marriages, but was absent for the final vote due to campaigning.{{Cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Tia |title=Warnock breaks from campaigning to cast vote on gay marriage protection |language=English |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/warnock-breaks-from-campaigning-to-cast-vote-on-gay-marriage-protection/RU2LNPUITRFURA2WKSRSHT7PYQ/ |access-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124033806/https://www.ajc.com/politics/warnock-breaks-from-campaigning-to-cast-vote-on-gay-marriage-protection/RU2LNPUITRFURA2WKSRSHT7PYQ/ |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |issn=1539-7459}}{{cite web|last1=Kapur|first1=Sahil|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-vote-tuesday-same-sex-marriage-bill-filibuster-rcna59125|title=Senate passes bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriage over GOP opposition|work=NBC News|date=November 29, 2022|access-date=April 9, 2023}}

During a December 2020 debate, Warnock twice declined to answer whether he supported "packing the Supreme Court" by adding additional justices.{{cite news |last1=Hollis |first1=Henri |title=Campaign check: Loeffler says Warnock will 'pack' Supreme Court |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/senate-watch/campaign-check-loeffler-says-warnock-will-pack-supreme-court/N5QT5FE3LVAPHNLZKIVXGGJRNY/ |access-date=February 18, 2021 |publisher=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=December 16, 2020 |language=English |archive-date=February 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211073858/https://www.ajc.com/politics/senate-watch/campaign-check-loeffler-says-warnock-will-pack-supreme-court/N5QT5FE3LVAPHNLZKIVXGGJRNY/ |url-status=live }}

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In June 2021, Warnock and Ossoff assisted six Georgia organizations that work to reduce veteran homelessness by obtaining between $375,000 to $500,000 of federal funds for each organization, using funds from the Department of Labor's Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Program, which are intended to help the veterans find jobs.{{cite news |last1=Cieslak |first1=McKenna |date=August 31, 2021 |title=Sens. Ossoff & Warnock announce over $2.5 million to help homeless Georgia veterans reenter the workforce |work=WSAV-TV |url=https://www.wjbf.com/news/sens-ossoff-warnock-announce-over-2-5-million-to-help-homeless-georgia-veterans-reenter-the-workforce/ |access-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130132910/https://www.wjbf.com/news/sens-ossoff-warnock-announce-over-2-5-million-to-help-homeless-georgia-veterans-reenter-the-workforce/ |archive-date=November 30, 2022}}{{cite news |date=July 6, 2022 |title=Sens. Ossoff, Warnock announce resources to help veterans reenter the workforce |work=WFXL |url=https://wfxl.com/news/state-news/sens-ossoff-warnock-announce-resources-to-help-veterans-reenter-the-workforce |access-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130132907/https://wfxl.com/news/state-news/sens-ossoff-warnock-announce-resources-to-help-veterans-reenter-the-workforce |archive-date=November 30, 2022}}

In September 2021, Warnock worked together with Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith to introduce legislation designating September 19 to 25 as Gold Star Families Remembrance Week nationwide, to honor sacrifices made by families of servicemen who died serving the United States; the legislation passed the Senate unanimously.{{cite news |last1=McCullough |first1=Kim |date=September 23, 2021 |title=Warnock, Hyde-Smith pass bipartisan resolution honoring Gold Star families |work=WRDW-TV |url=https://www.wrdw.com/2021/09/22/warnock-hyde-smith-pass-bipartisan-resolution-honoring-gold-star-families/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112083624/https://www.wrdw.com/2021/09/22/warnock-hyde-smith-pass-bipartisan-resolution-honoring-gold-star-families/ |archive-date=November 12, 2022}}

In November 2021, a bill of Warnock's was enacted that approved a government study into whether there were racial disparities in benefits provided by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.{{cite news |last1=Kheel |first1=Rebecca |date=November 30, 2021 |title=Racial Disparities in VA Benefits Advocates Say Are Rampant Set to Get Watchdog Probe |work=Military.com |url=https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/11/30/racial-disparities-va-benefits-advocates-say-are-rampant-set-get-watchdog-probe.html |access-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130095553/https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/11/30/racial-disparities-va-benefits-advocates-say-are-rampant-set-get-watchdog-probe.html |archive-date=November 30, 2022}}

In his maiden speech on the U.S. Senate floor, Warnock said that one of his primary goals upon assuming office was to oppose voting restrictions and support federal voting reforms.{{Cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Tia |title=Warnock, in first floor speech, champions federal voting laws to blunt GA's proposed restrictions |language=English |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/warnock-in-first-floor-speech-will-blast-proposed-voting-restrictions-in-georgia/XYKJV5P6VFEFHC6XKAF6E5GRX4/ |access-date=May 14, 2022 |issn=1539-7459 |archive-date=October 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005015156/https://www.ajc.com/politics/warnock-in-first-floor-speech-will-blast-proposed-voting-restrictions-in-georgia/XYKJV5P6VFEFHC6XKAF6E5GRX4/ |url-status=live }} He has said that passing legislation to expand voting rights is important enough to end the Senate filibuster.{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Mary Louise |title=Sen. Raphael Warnock On Ending The Filibuster: 'All Options Must Be On The Table' |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/03/11/976109486/sen-raphael-warnock-on-ending-the-filibuster-all-options-must-be-on-the-table |access-date=June 14, 2021 |work=NPR.org |date=March 11, 2021 |language=en |archive-date=February 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211074012/https://www.npr.org/2021/03/11/976109486/sen-raphael-warnock-on-ending-the-filibuster-all-options-must-be-on-the-table |url-status=live }}

On March 17, 2021, Warnock said in a Senate floor speech that voting rights were under attack at a rate not seen since the Jim Crow era.{{cite news|date=March 18, 2021|last=Garcia|first=Catherine|title=Georgia Sen. Warnock warns voting rights are under assault at a rate not seen 'since the Jim Crow era'|url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/972699/warnock-warns-voting-rights-are-under-assault-rate-not-seen-since-jim-crow-era|access-date=March 19, 2021|work=The Week|language=en-US|archive-date=March 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318224820/https://theweek.com/speedreads/972699/warnock-warns-voting-rights-are-under-assault-rate-not-seen-since-jim-crow-era|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Barrow|first=Bill|date=March 17, 2021|title=Warnock: GOP voting restrictions resurrect 'Jim Crow era'|url=https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-georgia-voting-rights-elections-voter-registration-debcae867733d6b4ace9325d4e65fe7a|access-date=March 19, 2021|work=Associated Press|archive-date=March 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329065917/https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-georgia-voting-rights-elections-voter-registration-debcae867733d6b4ace9325d4e65fe7a|url-status=live}} On April 20, 2021, Warnock and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and For the People Act. He was again critical of the new election laws passed in his home state, calling it a "full-fledged assault on voting rights, unlike anything we seen since the era of Jim Crow."{{cite web|date=April 20, 2021|title=Warnock addresses Senate committee on voting rights|url=https://www.wrdw.com/2021/04/20/warnock-addresses-senate-committee-on-voting-rights/|url-status=live|website=wrdw.com|access-date=April 21, 2021|archive-date=February 11, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211074053/https://www.wrdw.com/2021/04/20/warnock-addresses-senate-committee-on-voting-rights/}} He has said that he does not oppose voter ID laws, but criticizes them when they discriminate against certain groups.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/21/democrats-voter-id/|title=Stacey Abrams and the Democrats' evolution on voter ID|access-date=June 29, 2021|date=June 21, 2021|newspaper=Washington Post|first=Aaron|last=Blake|archive-date=January 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115190347/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/21/democrats-voter-id/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/news/stacey-abrams-endorses-manchins-election-law-compromise/|title=Stacey Abrams Endorses Manchin's Election Law Compromise|access-date=June 29, 2021|date=June 17, 2021|author=Brittany Bernstein|work=National Review|archive-date=February 11, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211074051/https://www.nationalreview.com/news/stacey-abrams-endorses-manchins-election-law-compromise/|url-status=live}}

While he was assistant pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church, Warnock opposed New York mayor Rudy Giuliani's workfare reforms. In 1997, he told The New York Times, "We are worried that workfare is being used to displace other workers who receive respectable compensation... We are concerned that poor people are being put into competition with other poor people, and in that respect, we think workfare is a hoax".{{Cite news|last=Greenhouse|first=Steven|date=August 4, 1997|title=2 Well-Known Churches Say No to Workfare Jobs|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/04/nyregion/2-well-known-churches-say-no-to-workfare-jobs.html|access-date=July 1, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141451/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/04/nyregion/2-well-known-churches-say-no-to-workfare-jobs.html|url-status=live}}

Warnock has expressed a range of views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has criticized Israel's actions, particularly in a May 2018 sermon where he discussed Israel's shooting of nonviolent Palestinian protesters, comparing the Palestinian cause to the Black Lives Matter movement. Warnock emphasized the struggle for human dignity and the Palestinians' right to self-determination, while also advocating for a two-state solution where "all of God's children can live together".{{Cite web |title=Warnock clarifies stances on Israel, Palestinians after 2018 speech surfaces |url=https://www.jns.org/warnock-clarifies-stances-on-israel-palestinians-after-2018-speech-surfaces/ |website=Jewish News Syndicate}}

In 2019, after a visit to Israel and the West Bank, Warnock signed a statement with other clergy that was critical of Israel's military occupation and settlement expansion in the West Bank. This statement compared the West Bank's heavy militarization to apartheid South Africa's occupation of Namibia, highlighting concerns about the viability of a two-state solution given these conditions.{{Cite web |date=2020-11-11 |title=Raphael Warnock's Israel stance is suddenly an issue in his Georgia Senate campaign |url=https://forward.com/news/458267/raphael-warnock-israel-georgia-loeffler-runoff/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=The Forward |language=en}}

Warnock reversed course on some of these positions during his Senate campaign in November 2020, calling the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel "anti-Semitic" and a refusal to acknowledge Israel's right to exist. He has said that he does not believe that Israel is an apartheid state and that he recognizes Israel's significance as a democracy in the Middle East and its importance as America's partner in the region. Warnock has also expressed a commitment to working toward ensuring Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon and has voiced his opposition to conditioning U.S. assistance to Israel.

In October 2023, Warnock publicly condemned Hamas's acts of violence against Israel at the start of Gaza war. In a statement, he called the violence "heinous" and emphasized the importance of seeking a "lasting peace grounded in justice and human dignity for all of God's creatures."{{Cite web |title=Senator Reverend Warnock Statement on Hamas Attack on Israel » Reverend Raphael Warnock |url=https://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-reverend-warnock-statement-on-hamas-attack-on-israel/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=Reverend Raphael Warnock |language=en-US}}

In February 2024, Warnock delivered a Senate speech emphasizing American leadership in achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace. He called for a negotiated ceasefire in the Gaza war, the release of hostages, and opening humanitarian corridors to aid Gaza, and he underscored the need for a two-state solution based on peace, security, and self-determination for both peoples.{{Cite web |title=WATCH: Laying out His Moral Vision for a Peaceful Future, Senator Reverend Warnock Delivers Senate Floor Speech Calling for Negotiated Ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War » Reverend Raphael Warnock |url=https://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/watch-laying-out-his-moral-vision-for-a-peaceful-future-senator-reverend-warnock-delivers-senate-floor-speech-calling-for-negotiated-ceasefire-in-the-israel-hamas-war/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=Reverend Raphael Warnock |language=en-US}}

In March 2024, Warnock was one of 19 Democratic senators to sign a letter to the Biden administration urging the United States to recognize a "nonmilitarized" Palestinian state after the war in Gaza.{{Cite web |last=Bolton |first=Alexander |date=2024-03-20 |title=Senate Democrats press Biden to establish two-state solution for Israel, Palestine |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4544765-democrats-press-biden-two-state-solution-israel-palestine/ |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=The Hill |language=en-US}}

In November 2024, Warnock voted for all three Israel-related measures proposed by Bernie Sanders: to block sales to Israel of JDAMS, tank rounds, and mortar rounds. The measures would have blocked approximately $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel.{{Cite news |date=November 21, 2024 |title=Full List of Democrats Who Voted to Block Weapons to Israel |url=https://www.newsweek.com/sanders-resolution-block-arms-sale-israel-struck-down-1989047 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241122010125/https://www.newsweek.com/sanders-resolution-block-arms-sale-israel-struck-down-1989047 |archive-date=November 22, 2024 |access-date=2024-12-07 |work=Newsweek}}{{Cite news |date=November 18, 2024 |title=US Senate to consider measures blocking some arms sales to Israel |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us-senate-consider-measures-blocking-some-weapons-sales-israel-2024-11-18/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241121052359/https://www.reuters.com/world/us-senate-consider-measures-blocking-some-weapons-sales-israel-2024-11-18/ |archive-date=November 21, 2024 |access-date=2024-12-07 |work=Reuters}}

In April 2025, Warnock voted against a pair of resolutions sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders to withhold billions of dollars in offensive weapons sales and other military aid to Israel.{{Cite web |last=Neukam |first=Stephen |date=2025-04-03 |title=15 Senate Dems vote to cancel billions in Israeli military aid |url=https://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/senate-democrats-cancel-military-aid-israel |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=Axios |language=en}}

Warnock lives in Atlanta.{{cite news|url=https://www.savannahnow.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/01/31/editorial-warnocks-senate-bid-big-for-savannah/1795801007/|title=Editorial: Warnock's Senate bid big for Savannah|work=Savannah Morning News|date=January 30, 2020|access-date=December 1, 2021|archive-date=December 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201170615/https://www.savannahnow.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/01/31/editorial-warnocks-senate-bid-big-for-savannah/1795801007/|url-status=live}} He married Oulèye Ndoye in a public ceremony on February 14, 2016; the couple had held a private ceremony in January.{{cite web|url=https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/ebenezer-pastor-raphael-warnock-wed-public-ceremony-sunday/hwE4uGozpT3VhJlBhhxPgM/|date=February 16, 2016|title=Ebenezer's Pastor Raphael Warnock to wed in public ceremony on Sunday|first=Shelia|last=Poole|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=January 24, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141543/https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/ebenezer-pastor-raphael-warnock-wed-public-ceremony-sunday/hwE4uGozpT3VhJlBhhxPgM/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Poole |first1=Shelia |title=A look at the wedding of Rev. Raphael Warnock and Ouleye Ndoye |url=https://www.ajc.com/blog/arts-culture/look-the-wedding-rev-raphael-warnock-and-ouleye-ndoye/DZVd06KtJqEUo1rdiBaTPO/ |publisher=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |access-date=February 1, 2020 |date=February 16, 2016 |quote=The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Ouleye Ndoye were wed publicly on Valentine's Day at the Auburn Avenue church. They initially wed in a private ceremony last month in Danforth Chapel on the campus of Morehouse College, Warnock's alma mater. |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141527/https://www.ajc.com/blog/arts-culture/look-the-wedding-rev-raphael-warnock-and-ouleye-ndoye/DZVd06KtJqEUo1rdiBaTPO/ |url-status=live }} They have two children. The couple separated in November 2019, and their divorce was finalized in 2020.

In March 2020, when Warnock and Ndoye were going through divorce proceedings, Ndoye accused Warnock of running over her foot with his car during a verbal argument; Warnock denied the accusation.{{Cite news|last=Deese|first=Kaelan|date=December 24, 2020|title=Warnock says he'll focus on Georgians after video of ex-wife surfaces|work=The Hill|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/531629-warnock-responds-after-video-of-ex-wifes-accusations-surfaces-im-going|access-date=December 26, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141531/https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/531629-warnock-responds-after-video-of-ex-wifes-accusations-surfaces-im-going|url-status=live}} According to an Atlanta Police Department report, after Warnock called police to the scene, Ndoye was reluctant to show her foot to the responding police officer, who "did not see any signs that Ms. Ouleye's foot was ran {{sic}} over"; medical professionals then arrived at the scene, but were "not able to locate any swelling, redness, or bruising or broken bones" on Ndoye's foot.{{cite news |last1=Kertscher |first1=Tom |date=November 16, 2020 |title=No proof Warnock 'ran over' wife; obstruction case dropped |work=PolitiFact |url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/16/erick-erickson/no-proof-warnock-ran-over-wife-obstruction-case-dr/ |access-date=November 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115032548/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/16/erick-erickson/no-proof-warnock-ran-over-wife-obstruction-case-dr/ |archive-date=November 15, 2022}} Police did not charge Warnock with any crimes regarding the incident.{{cite web|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/warnock-wife-involved-dispute/MCQYpvtswlZIIGdItrfcBJ/|title=Warnock, wife involved in dispute|date=March 7, 2020|first1=Stephen|last1=Deere|first2=Greg|last2=Bluestein|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106141515/https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/warnock-wife-involved-dispute/MCQYpvtswlZIIGdItrfcBJ/|url-status=live}}

In February 2022, Ndoye asked the court to modify their child custody agreement, granting her "additional custody of their two young children so she can complete a Harvard University program", and for a recalculation of child support payments.{{cite news |last=Bluestein |first=Greg |url=https://www.ajc.com/politics/warnocks-ex-wife-takes-legal-action-over-child-custody/UNI2QB7HQ5CVJMIIYSBGWD37FQ/ |title=Warnock's ex-wife takes legal action over child custody |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=April 2, 2022 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409212702/https://www.ajc.com/politics/warnocks-ex-wife-takes-legal-action-over-child-custody/UNI2QB7HQ5CVJMIIYSBGWD37FQ/ |archive-date=April 9, 2022 |url-status=live}}

In October 2022, Savannah's city government honorarily renamed Cape Street, the street on which Warnock grew up during the 1980s, as Raphael Warnock Way.{{Cite web |last=Payne |first=Benjamin |title=Raphael Warnock's childhood street in Savannah bears new name in his honor |url=https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/10/07/raphael-warnocks-childhood-street-in-savannah-bears-new-name-in-his-honor |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124172053/https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/10/07/raphael-warnocks-childhood-street-in-savannah-bears-new-name-in-his-honor |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |access-date=November 24, 2022 |website=Georgia Public Broadcasting |date=October 7, 2022 |language=en}}

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| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = Raphael Warnock

| votes = 1,617,035

| percentage = 32.90

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (US)

| candidate = Kelly Loeffler (incumbent)

| votes = 1,273,214

| percentage = 25.91

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (US)

| candidate = Doug Collins

| votes = 980,454

| percentage = 19.95

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = Deborah Jackson

| votes = 324,118

| percentage = 6.60

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = Matt Lieberman

| votes = 136,021

| percentage = 2.77

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = Tamara Johnson-Shealey

| votes = 106,767

| percentage = 2.17

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = Jamesia James

| votes = 94,406

| percentage = 1.92

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (US)

| candidate = Derrick Grayson

| votes = 51,592

| percentage = 1.05

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = Joy Felicia Slade

| votes = 44,945

| percentage = 0.91

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (US)

| candidate = Annette Davis Jackson

| votes = 44,335

| percentage = 0.90

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (US)

| candidate = Kandiss Taylor

| votes = 40,349

| percentage = 0.82

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (US)

| candidate = Wayne Johnson (withdrawn)

| votes = 36,176

| percentage = 0.74

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Libertarian Party (US)

| candidate = Brian Slowinski

| votes = 35,431

| percentage = 0.72

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = Richard Dien Winfield

| votes = 28,687

| percentage = 0.58

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| candidate = Ed Tarver

| votes = 26,333

| percentage = 0.54

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Independent

| candidate = Allen Buckley

| votes = 17,954

| percentage = 0.37

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Green Party of the United States

| candidate = John Fortuin

| votes = 15,293

| percentage = 0.31

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Independent

| candidate = Al Bartell

| votes = 14,640

| percentage = 0.30

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Independent

| candidate = Valencia Stovall

| votes = 13,318

| percentage = 0.27

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Independent

| candidate = Michael Todd Greene

| votes = 13,293

| percentage = 0.27

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 4,914,361

| percentage = 100.0

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| title = 2021 United States Senate special election in Georgia runoff{{cite news |title=Georgia U.S. Senate runoff results |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/georgia-senate-runoffs-2021/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=January 9, 2021 |archive-date=March 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317045647/https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/georgia-senate-runoffs-2021/ |url-status=live }}

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link

| candidate = Raphael Warnock

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 2,289,113

| percentage = 51.04%

| change = +10.00%

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{{Election box candidate with party link

| candidate = Kelly Loeffler (incumbent)

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| votes = 2,195,841

| percentage = 48.96%

| change = −5.84%

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| votes = 4,484,954

| percentage = 100.0%

| change =

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| winner = Democratic Party (United States)

| loser = Republican Party (United States)

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|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Raphael Warnock (incumbent)

|votes = 1,946,117

|percentage = 49.44%

|change = {{nowrap|+1.05%}}

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|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Herschel Walker

|votes = 1,908,442

|percentage = 48.49%

|change = {{nowrap|−0.88%}}

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|votes = 3,935,924

|percentage = 100.0%

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{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?520372-1/after-words-senator-raphael-warnock After Words interview with Warnock on A Way Out of No Way, June 26, 2022], C-SPAN}}

• {{cite book |last=Warnock |first=Raphael G. |title=The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness |date=December 2013 |publisher=NYU Press |location=New York |isbn=9780814794463 |oclc=844308880}}
• {{cite book |last=Warnock |first=Raphael G. |title=A Way Out of No Way |date=June 2022 |publisher=Penguin Press |location=New York |isbn=9780593491546 }}{{cite news |last=Kaiser |first=Charles |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/18/a-way-out-of-no-way-review-raphael-warnock-georgia-senator-democrat |title=A Way Out of No Way review: Raphael Warnock, symbol of hope for America |work=The Guardian |date=June 18, 2022 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-date=June 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618230840/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/18/a-way-out-of-no-way-review-raphael-warnock-georgia-senator-democrat |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Joyner |first=Tammy |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/17/sen-warnock-recounts-his-path-projects-georgia-politics/ |title=Sen. Warnock recounts his path from the projects to Georgia politics |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 17, 2022 |access-date=June 19, 2022}} OCLC [https://www.worldcat.org/title/1281244406 1281244406].

• "I Can Still Hear My Father's Voice", New York Times, June 15, 2022{{Cite news |last=Warnock |first=Raphael |date=2022-06-15 |title=Opinion {{!}} Raphael Warnock: I Can Still Hear My Father's Voice |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/opinion/sunday/raphael-warnock-father.html |access-date=2024-07-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

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• [https://www.ebenezeratl.org/our-pastor/ Biography] at the Ebenezer Baptist Church
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