Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Reverend slash Senator Raphael Warnock,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you so much. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna jump straight into it, and I know
Speaker 1: so many welcome. Thank you so much. You don't know
Speaker 1: one is welcomed me back. You the first person you
Speaker 1: see this is this is why you're reverend. I like that. Um. First,
Speaker 1: First things first, this is turning into a race that
Speaker 1: is way closer than people anticipated. It is turning into
Speaker 1: a race that has become a lot more national than
Speaker 1: many people anticipated. And what's been surprising is seeing how
Speaker 1: little of the news is actually about what you're doing wrong.
Speaker 1: It's just about what the other candidate is saying, which
Speaker 1: seems crazy, and and yet it seems closer than it
Speaker 1: should be. So I'd love to start with that. Why
Speaker 1: do you think Georgia or Georgian votes is or the
Speaker 1: polls are showing that Georgian voters are so close when
Speaker 1: it seems like most people would say the two of
Speaker 1: you are so far parts well, I agree with the
Speaker 1: last part of what you just said. Oh wow. Uh.
Speaker 1: The differences between the options that Georgians have right now
Speaker 1: are wide and deep. And um look, the reality is,
Speaker 1: we always knew this would be a close race, and
Speaker 1: I think that speaks to where the country is and
Speaker 1: where people are. Um But I think when you look close,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to look that close, um uh,
Speaker 1: you can see that Georgians have a clear choice. I
Speaker 1: think about who's ready and who's fit to serve, uh,
Speaker 1: to represent them in the United States Senate. And I
Speaker 1: believe that at the end of the day, Jordan's isn't
Speaker 1: gonna get it right. Let's talk about Let's talk about
Speaker 1: what many what many Georgians may feel is going wrong.
Speaker 1: There are many who are saying we need change. And
Speaker 1: as we've seen multiple times in American politics, it's it's
Speaker 1: all about what people's pockets feel like. It's all about
Speaker 1: what their gas tank looks like, that the terms a
Speaker 1: lot of how they vote. There are many Georgians have said,
Speaker 1: I love you, Senator, I love what you're doing and
Speaker 1: what you represent. But I feel like in this moment,
Speaker 1: the Republicans are promising something that is better or different.
Speaker 1: How would you how would you respond to the people
Speaker 1: who say that to you? Well, in my case, my
Speaker 1: opponent hasn't promised the thing I mean, I think about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, man, and I'm not being flipped, and I
Speaker 1: want you to think, what what has he actually promised
Speaker 1: to do? So, look, there's no question that these are
Speaker 1: tough times and people are feeling the pain and the pinch.
Speaker 1: We've been through over two years of a pandemic, and
Speaker 1: now that the economy has opened up, we're seeing these
Speaker 1: rising costs, supply chain issues related to the pandemic. We're
Speaker 1: seeing rising prices by the way, globally driven by the
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine. And on top of that, you've got
Speaker 1: bad actors in the corporate space who are literally exploiting
Speaker 1: a pandemic while we while so while while we are
Speaker 1: paying record prices at the pump, at the pharmaceutical counter,
Speaker 1: at the grocery store, they are literally experiencing record profits
Speaker 1: and so so, so the question is who's gonna do
Speaker 1: something about it? Who who cares about ordinary people? And
Speaker 1: I take this job very seriously. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: real for your neighbors to say, we want you to
Speaker 1: represent us in a high office. And so that's the
Speaker 1: reason why I kept the cost of insulin to know
Speaker 1: more than thirty five dollars all of tactic that's that's
Speaker 1: that's the reason I kept the costs of prescription drugs
Speaker 1: so uh, women and men like my four year old
Speaker 1: mother wouldn't have to choose between buying the medicine they
Speaker 1: need and the groceries they need. That's why I I
Speaker 1: remained focused on the people. And when I talked the
Speaker 1: other night about capping the cost of insulin and the
Speaker 1: fact that corporations are gouging insulin, a one year old drug,
Speaker 1: my opponents said, people just need to eat right. So
Speaker 1: those were his words. And you know, as a pastor,
Speaker 1: I have encouraged healthy living, but that doesn't explain why
Speaker 1: the corporations are engaged in price gauging. And you can
Speaker 1: eat right and still have diabetes right right. So so
Speaker 1: here here's my recommendation. I think herschel Walker should be
Speaker 1: the dietitian and I'll serve in the United States Center.
Speaker 1: Let's let's talk a little bit as well about how
Speaker 1: you work as well. I I have found it particularly
Speaker 1: interesting that even in your campaign ads in Georgia, you've
Speaker 1: gone out of your way to talk about Republicans who
Speaker 1: you have worked with, which too many people would seem
Speaker 1: like suicide. You know, you say I've worked with Ted Cruz,
Speaker 1: I worked with Marco Ruby or now most people don't
Speaker 1: even admit that that they know Ted Cruise. And yet
Speaker 1: here you are, here, you are saying, no, I worked
Speaker 1: with Ted Cruise, I worked with Marco Ruby. You've made
Speaker 1: an effort of talking about reaching across the aisle and
Speaker 1: working with other loanmakers to get things done. It seems
Speaker 1: like that is dwindling in American politics. As you said,
Speaker 1: people are retreating to their corners and saying this is
Speaker 1: where I stand. I work with no one else. Do
Speaker 1: you don't worry about alienating some who say, oh, how
Speaker 1: can you reach across the aisle? Or why is it
Speaker 1: that you choose to particularly include that in your own campaign?
Speaker 1: And I mean, it's your add Why include Ted Cruise's name,
Speaker 1: Why put it Marco Rubio's name in it? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm the eighteenth most bipartisan senator in the Senate based
Speaker 1: uh um uh, according to the Luger Center, I'm the
Speaker 1: eighteenth and that's that's a little bit of an achievement
Speaker 1: because out of one hundred senators, I'm one hundred. I'm
Speaker 1: the most junior senator in the Senate, and I've been
Speaker 1: able to convince people to work with me, to pull
Speaker 1: people together. And so, yeah, I will be honest. Ted
Speaker 1: Cruise and I are both on the Commerce Committee. Most
Speaker 1: of the time when he's talking, I'm sitting there thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, really like you put on a suit in
Speaker 1: the tie to come here to do that. So that's
Speaker 1: usually when I'm a can. But but when it came
Speaker 1: time to name our fourteen a priority corridor in Georgia,
Speaker 1: an interstate that would run through Texas and also through Georgia,
Speaker 1: would connect our military basis, would revitalize a lot of
Speaker 1: our rural areas that have been suffering all throughout Georgia.
Speaker 1: I didn't mind working with Ted crews to do that.
Speaker 1: If we can build out the highway, nobody cares if
Speaker 1: you're a Democrat or Republican. You get to use the highway. Um. So,
Speaker 1: so what I've endeavored to do is not to be
Speaker 1: a senator who used to be a pastor, but a
Speaker 1: pastor in the Senate, which is which is why I
Speaker 1: returned to my pulpit. I preach here every Sunday, and
Speaker 1: you continue to do the important work. So I hope
Speaker 1: the people of Georgia will give me six more years
Speaker 1: to keep doing this work because a rich flush of
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