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Walker Hit Warnock Hard on Abortion, Ebenezer Church Evictions in Friday Night Debate

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Georgia’s Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, football great Herschel Walker, faced off in their first and only debate ahead of the midterm elections on Friday night. Walker, trying to recover from a series of damaging headlines, needed a solid performance and he delivered one.

Two of Walker’s strongest moments came during an exchange about abortion. Warnock, who is a Christian pastor, advocates for no limits on abortion. Walker is pro-life.

Walker said, “He [Sen. Warnock] told me that black lives matter, and if you think about it, Senator, in Atlanta, Georgia, there’s more black babies that is aborted than anything. So, if black lives matter, why are you not protecting those babies? And instead of aborting those babies, why are you not baptizing those babies?”

Warnock replied, “I think the women of Georgia have a clear choice.”

“A patient’s room is too narrow and small and cramped a space for a woman, her doctor, and the United States government. We are witnessing right now what happens when politicians, most of them men, pile into patient’s rooms. … And the women of Georgia deserves a senator who will stand with them. I trust women more than I trust politicians.”

Then Walker landed one right between the eyes. He said, “May I respond? … He’s a neat talker, but he did not mention that there’s a baby in that room as well.”

The Trump-endorsed Walker got hammered in the polls this summer when revelations of his illegitimate children and history of mental health problems surfaced, but he had rebounded strongly over the month of September and had managed to close the gap between them completely. In fact, the RealClearPolitics average of polls in this race showed Walker up 0.7 points.

In early October, however, the Daily Beast published several articles which alleged that in 2009, Walker paid for his then-girlfriend to get an abortion, and that two years later, he’d recommended she get a second one. Walker has vehemently denied these allegations, and did so again during the debate.

There’s no question the articles hurt his chances in the race. Warnock has taken back the lead. As of Saturday, the RCP average of polls shows Warnock with a 3.3 point lead.

Walker had some very strong moments on Friday night. He tried mightily to tie Warnock to President Joe Biden’s failed agenda noting that he had voted with Biden 96 percent of the time.

Warnock was asked if he thought Biden should run for reelection in 2024. Like many other Democratic candidates this election cycle, the senator dodged the question. He said, “I’ve not spent a minute thinking about what politicians should run in 2024.

“The people of Georgia hired me to represent them. … They didn’t hire me to be a pundit.”

The moderator asked Walker if he would support former President Donald Trump in 2024. The football legend answered, “Yes I would. President Trump is my friend I won’t leave my allies, which is what Senator Warnock and Joe Biden did in Afghanistan.”

The Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this week that Warnock still draws a salary and receives a monthly housing allowance of $7,417 from the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Free Beacon obtained documents which “describe the building as a home for the ‘chronically homeless’ and those with ‘mental disabilities.'”

The church owns 99 percent of the Columbia Tower at MLK Village in downtown Atlanta, according to the report. During the pandemic, “Ebenezer Baptist Church’s business partner, Columbia Residential, the 1 percent owner of the building, which manages its day-to-day operations,” filed “a dozen eviction lawsuits” against tenants who were late in paying their rent. “The total sum of past-due rent cited in the lawsuits is just $4,900, a figure that could have been covered by one of Warnock’s monthly housing stipends from the church.”

The Free Beacon learned that because of its status as a charitable organization, Columbia Tower has paid just $77.77 in property taxes over a seven-year period and “has received more than $15 million in taxpayer-funded assistance since 2005.”

Walker hit Warnock over the evictions in the exchange below.

The former Heisman Trophy winner’s performance put him back in the game.

All in all, Walker far surpassed expectations. And no one was more surprised than Warnock himself.

 

A previous version of this article appeared in The Western Journal.

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3 thoughts on “Walker Hit Warnock Hard on Abortion, Ebenezer Church Evictions in Friday Night Debate”

  1. A supposed Christain pastor who is all in for abortion? Warnock appears to be more like a Pharisee than a true believer. Shame on him and on all those who avert their eyes from the truth, so they won’t see the obvious problem with this dude.

  3. Walker will win his race. The debate seals the deal, if only Georgians watched it. Walker was dealt a bad hit job by that October surprise mud slinging. He performed very well, and will succeed.

    Any priest, pastor or rector who supports pro-choice or “Womens’ Reproductive Health”, as the left likes to call it, is just not much to be representing anyone, other than the occult. I wonder if Raphael Warnock prays to Margaret Sanger? Wouldn’t that be an interesting twist, in the saga known to be from those racial bigots of yesteryear? Just imagine, a black pastor praying for his own race’s demise. Up is certainly down.

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