Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is an American pastor and politician. He has been the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta since 2005. Warnock came to prominence in Georgia politics as a leader in the campaign to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. He is running in the 2020 U.S. Senate special election.
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Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is an American pastor and politician. He has been the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta since 2005. Warnock came to prominence in Georgia politics as a leader in the campaign to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. A member of the Democratic Party, he is running in the 2020 U.S. Senate special election in Georgia for the seat held by Kelly Loeffler. As pastor, Warnock advocated for clemency for Troy Davis, who was executed in 2011.
In 2013, he delivered the benediction at the public prayer service at the second inauguration of Barack Obama. The couple separated in November 2019 and finalized their divorce in 2020. According to a police report, the couple married in a public ceremony on February 14, 2016; the couple had a private ceremony in January 2016. They have two children, a WNBA player, and a former Atlanta Dream team member. He is married to Oulèe Nye Nye, a member of Atlanta’s WNBA team.
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