The Era Of The Black Senate Candidate Is Here

SAVANNAH, Ga. ― Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat who is running to become just the second Black man elected to the U.S. Senate from the South since the end of Reconstruction, came back to his hometown on Sunday morning to canvass ― and to acknowledge that he was about to make history.

Just not that piece of history.

“Here’s the thing. It’s been about 150 years since Georgia had a United States senator from Savannah,” he said, as the crowd whooped. “I think it’s about time.”

In the final days...