Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., said Sunday that electing President Donald Trump twice reflected a deeper problem in the country, describing the nation as “spiritually sick.”
Asked by interviewer Jonathan Martin whether America needed a spiritual rebirth, Warnock said it did. He called Trump a serious danger and said the president was a symptom of a broader “brokenness.”
Warnock also argued that the country could not simply wait for the current moment to pass and return to normal. In his view, Trump gained support partly because many people had already been left behind.
The Georgia senator described the 2026 midterms as an “inflection point,” warning that a Democratic loss could make the 2028 election seem almost “theoretical.” He would not say whether he might run for president, but called for a vigorous debate and a genuine primary contest in 2028.
RNC spokeswoman Emma Hall dismissed Warnock as a “radical left-wing warrior.” She said he supports abolishing prisons, police and borders, and has compared Republicans to dying snakes who should repent.
Warnock, the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, made similar criticisms of Trump’s supporters in an April interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Asked about pastors who say Trump was placed in office for a divine purpose, Warnock called the administration “ungodly” and compared those leaders to Christians who once used the Bible to defend slavery.
He said those pastors were wrong, arguing that the Black Church arose in part to challenge the American belief that Christianity could be reconciled with slavery.
