Warnock on Georgia support for Biden: ‘The more Donald Trump talks, the better our fortunes will be’

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) said Sunday that support for President Biden in Georgia will be boosted the more former President Trump talks.

CBS host Margaret Brennan asked Warnock on “Face the Nation” why enthusiasm for Biden has dropped among Black voters since the last election, pointing to CBS’s recent polling. Warnock noted that it’s still early in the election but that he is confident voters will turn out for Biden in the state the president narrowly won in 2020.

“And I can tell you as someone whose name has been on the ballot five times in less than three years, that the polls don’t tell you nearly as much as the people do. I think that at the end of the day, Black voters, Georgia voters, will see that this is a binary choice,” he said.

“And the — the more Donald Trump talks, the better our fortunes will be. And in the end, I believe that Georgia voters are going to do for Joe Biden what they did for me,” he added.

Warnock continued to defend Biden’s support among Black voters on Sunday, pointing to what Biden’s administration has so far accomplished.

“And so, I’m very proud of the work that we’ve been able to do together, in partnership with the Biden administration. I’m proud of my legislation that capped the cost of insulin to no more than $35 of out-of-pocket costs for seniors. I’m trying to get that done for everybody,” he said.

“We’ve done $144 billion dollars of student debt cancellation, helping some 4 million Americans… I think that at the end of the day, people will see that this is a binary choice, the- the juxtaposition, the contrast could not be more stark. And they’re going to send Joe Biden and Kamala Harris back to the White House,” he added.