{"id":6923,"date":"2022-12-01T14:57:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2022-12-01T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:57:44","slug":"warnock-continues-runoff-tour-over-coffee-and-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/01\/warnock-continues-runoff-tour-over-coffee-and-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Warnock Continues Runoff Tour Over Coffee and Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The coffee shop was small. The support for Warnock? Anything but.<\/strong><\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock poses with his supporters at Omni Coffee & Eggs in Atlanta. (Photo: Toni Odejimi\/HUNewsService.com)<\/em><\/p>\n

By Toni Odejimi
\n<\/strong>Howard University News Service<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was all about early voting again for Sen. Raphael Warnock who spoke at\u00a0Omni Coffee & Eggs<\/a>\u00a0in Atlanta on Wednesday as a part of his \u201cOne More Time\u201d runoff campaign.<\/p>\n

This is especially true on the cusp of his lawsuit win against Georgia state officials. Warnock and the Democratic Party of Georgia\u00a0filed a suit<\/a>\u00a0against the provision that prohibited early voting on Nov. 26, and\u00a0won<\/a>. This allowed for early voting to occur in various participating counties, like Rockdale, Cobb and Gwinnett.\u00a0Douglas<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0DeKalb<\/a>\u00a0counties started early voting last weekend. Early voting across the state began on Monday, November 28.<\/p>\n

Warnock was pretty candid that the event in hand wasn\u2019t to encourage the people standing in front of him to vote. No, he already knew they were going do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t come this morning to convince y\u2019all to vote,\u201d Warnock explained. \u201cI came to convince you to convince others.\u201d<\/p>\n

This push to re-energize voters came after the\u00a02022 midterm elections<\/a>\u00a0saw Democratic candidates lose up and down the ballot. Even Esh\u00e9 Collins, the chair of the Atlanta Board of Education, understood that some voters were feeling reluctant to hit the polls again. She stressed that voters, particularly the 18-35 and 65+ crowd, need to run it back and vote.<\/p>\n

Despite the push to get voters back to the ballot box, Warnock\u2019s supporters in attendance didn\u2019t see this runoff as a time to despair. No, they saw it as a time for hope. They were aware of the voter fatigue, some of them even admitted that they have it. But, to Takara McGee, there\u2019s quite literally no other choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has to win,\u201d McGee said. \u201cThere\u2019s no other choice as far as Black people, women.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGee was referring to Herschel Walker, who believes that abortion should be illegal regardless of the reason as he denies allegations from women that he has encouraged and paid for their abortions.<\/p>\n

In his speech, Warnock maintained his stance on keeping politicians out of the abortion clinic. He also criticized\u00a0Walker\u2019s comments<\/a>\u00a0on how diabetes can be avoided with proper nutrition and exercise in reference to insulin pricing. Warnock has been pushing to reduce insulin\u2019s cost, which he eventually did by lowering it to $35 for people covered under\u00a0\u201ctraditional Medicare.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

But insulin and attacks at his contender aside, Warnock still holds faithful that he\u2019ll win his reelection.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of momentum behind this race. And we\u2019re going to win,\u201d Warnock said.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Davida Huntley, a Warnock supporter and former candidate in a school board election, said turnout for this year\u2019s midterm was disappointing.<\/p>\n

Huntley said more people should have turned out for early voting, especially with the money spent on campaigning, which she described as \u201cdeplorable.\u201d Overall turnout in Georgia was 3.96 million, or 57 percent, of the\u00a06.95 million registered voters<\/a>, according to the Secretary of State. About 2.9 million voters cast\u00a0early ballots<\/a>\u00a0in person.<\/p>\n

Why are these voters not coming out? Huntley thinks it\u2019s down to a lack of faith within the election system. And she has some words for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything you do is political,\u201d Huntley said. \u201cThere is no such thing as \u2018I\u2019m not political. It doesn\u2019t matter. It doesn\u2019t affect me.\u2019 If you\u2019re living and breathing, if you have a heartbeat, you are a part of the political process. And as long as you\u2019re of the correct age, you should participate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toni Odejimi is a student at Georgia State University and reporter for HUNewsService.com. She is part of the election team and has been covering the Warnock-Walker race.<\/em><\/p>\n

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