Warnock, Walker: Starkly different choices for Black voters

Warnock, Walker: Starkly different choices for Black votersATLANTA (AP) — Raphael Warnock is the first Black U.S. senator from Georgia, having broken the color barrier for one of the original 13 states with a special election victory in January 2021, almost 245 years after the nation’s founding. Yet Warnock and Walker have cut different paths and offer clearly opposing visions for the country, including on race and racism. AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 3,200 voters in the state, showed that Warnock won 90% of Black voters. VoteCast data in the 2021 runoff suggested that Black voters helped fuel Warnock’s victory over then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler, comprising almost a third of that electorate, slightly more than the Black share of the 2020 general electorate. Doyal Siddell, a 66-year-old Black retiree from Douglasville, said Walker’s pitch is disconnected from many Black voters.