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A few hours before the mid-term elections, Democrats and Republicans throw their last forces into battle. Especially in states where the polls look very tight, like Georgia. In this southern state, the incumbent Democratic senator, the African-American pastor Raphael Warnock, is facing another black candidate, the highly controversial Herschel Walker, a former football star endorsed by Donald Trump.
With our special envoy to Johns Creek, Stefanie Schuler
Democrat Raphael Warnock is also the senior pastor of one of America’s most famous churches: Martin Luther King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
And it was in this civil rights mecca that Senator-Pastor-Candidate Warnock celebrated a highly political Mass on Sunday. “My dad in uniform couldn’t even sit in a seat on the bus. And now I have a seat in the Senate! We’re on the move. We turned the clocks back one hour last night [por el cambio de hora en EEUU]. But we’re not going to let anyone turn the clocks back 60 years. Tell everyone to go vote. Tell them that the vote is a kind of prayer for the world that we want for ourselves and our children,” she said.
The congregation, which gathered after Pastor Warnock’s preaching, is more than aware of the importance of the elections on November 8. It is the case of Charles. “Our rights, our freedom, our humanity. Everything is at stake. Everything.” “If we can maintain the Democratic majority in Congress, Democratic policies will be carried out,” Grace added.
A few hours before the elections, the tension is palpable. So Raphael Warnock wanted to reassure. “I have a feeling everything will be fine,” he confides.
In the latest polls, he is tied with Herschel Walker, so every vote counts. Democratic activists are determined to mobilize the last remaining voters who are holding out and are doing legwork, like in Johns Creek.
“Yesterday I was going door to door and some people thought they could vote today. I had to explain to them that the vote was on Tuesday. I also had to tell them that now the only way to vote was to go to their polling station in person and give them the address. So the awareness and education of our voters is very important”, explains a Democratic militant to RFI.
With the vote just hours away, many Americans say they can’t wait for the fierce election campaign to end.
