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October 26, 2022 
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Reverend Warnock Launches Early Vote Bus Tour in Brunswick and Savannah, Urges Voters to Cast Ballots Early

Reverend Warnock: “Turnout Is High, But The Stakes Are Even Higher”  

Atlanta, GA — Yesterday, Reverend Warnock launched his early vote bus tour in Brunswick and Savannah, where he held a canvass launch in Savannah with Senator Ossoff and a rally in Brunswick, where he pushed voters to make their voices heard by casting their ballots during the early vote period. Georgians can vote early now through November 4. 

Reverend Warnock held a canvass launch in Savannah with Senator Ossoff

Savannah Morning News: Sens. Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff campaign with Savannah U.S. House candidate Wade Herring

• The Democratic Party’s Savannah election campaign office is not in a glamorous location. But on Tuesday afternoon, the parking lot in front of the space, which is sandwiched between two hair salons behind the Circle K gas station on U.S. 17, played host to both of Georgia’s U.S. senators.

• Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff came to U.S House candidate Wade Herring’s get-out-the-vote rally staged in front of the office, campaigning together for the first time since the 2020 election. Warnock and Ossoff last tag-teamed ahead of the U.S. Senate runoffs, when both unseated incumbent Republicans and gave Democrats majority control of the Senate.

• “This is a special man,” Ossoff said of Warnock. “It’s not just that we both serve in the Senate, it’s not about our political party, it’s about the genuine connection we’ve built in service to this state.”

• Warnock encouraged those who had already early voted to get out and encourage others to cast their ballots. He said Georgia’s massive early voting turnout thus far was “good news,” but urged the crowd not to be complacent. 

• “Turnout is high, but the stakes are even higher,” Warnock said. 

Watch WJCL Savannah’s Coverage HERE

Frank Sulkowski, WJCL: “Yesterday, Georgia lawmakers and candidates held a rally in Savannah for Senator Warnock. Senator Ossoff and also Democratic candidate for Congress Wade Herring and Savannah Mayor Van Johnson supported Warnock at that event.”

Reverend Warnock hosted an early vote rally in Brunswick

The Brunswick News: Warnock makes campaign stop in Brunswick ahead of midterm election

• Sen. Raphael Warnock told a crowd gathered Tuesday in Brunswick that he hopes to continue doing important work in the United States Senate, if reelected this November.

• The Democratic senator made a campaign stop in Glynn County to encourage local voters to support him and his party during the midterm election Nov. 8.

• Warnock is running against Herschel Walker, a Republican candidate who is supported by former U.S. President Donald Trump and who has been mired in several controversies in recent months.

• Warnock arrived to the event Tuesday in a dramatic fashion and to much fanfare, his tour bus pulling into the Winn-Dixie parking lot on Hwy. 17 and parking outside the Glynn Dems headquarters. A large crowd of supporters waited for him, cheering and holding up Warnock’s orange and blue campaign signs.

• Julie Jordan, chair of the Glynn Dems, said few expected Democratic candidates to do as well as they did in 2020.

• “We knew that we were going to win,” she said. “But nobody else did.”

• She encouraged anyone who hasn’t voted to do so and for those who have voted to help others get to the polls.

• “Election season has begun,” Jordan said. “… Glynn County and the entire state of Georgia have been breaking early voting records, and that’s good for Democrats.”

• Warmock touted some of the successful efforts he has been a part of during his time in the Senate, including the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill and working with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on legislation that will improve roads in Texas and in Georgia.

• “I will work with anybody if it helps me do good work for Georgia,” Warnock said.

• He also reflected on the confirmation of Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court and expressed his frustration with what he called the “extreme activist Supreme Court” in light of the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

• “You have an ally in me,” he said. “I am a man of faith, and because I am a man of faith I have a profound reverence for life and I have a deep respect for choice. And I think that a patient’s room is too small and cramped a space for a woman, her doctor and the United States government.”

• A vote is a hope for a better future, Warnock said, as are policy and legislation.

• “It’s a letter to our children — what we do on healthcare, what we do on climate change, what we do in order to protect the rights of women,” he said. “It’s a letter to the future.”

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