Politics- Raphael Warnock during a Friday Democratic rally questioned Herschel Walker's fitness for office.
- "You actually have to know stuff to do this job," the senator said to applause from the audience.
Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock on Friday questioned Republican candidate Herschel Walker's readiness for office, stating that "you have to know stuff" to get things accomplished in the upper chamber.
During a rally that featured former President Barack Obama and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, Warnock blasted his opponent for what he said were indicators of an individual who was not running to truly serve the people of the state.
Warnock, who played a key role in crafting a $35 insulin-cap provision for Medicare recipients that was included in the Inflation Reduction Act, pointed to comments that Walker made during a debate earlier this month where he said that people who required insulin needed to "eat right."
"We live in a state where 11% of the adults have diabetes, and that insulin is a drug that's been around 100 years and they're price gouging the insulin," Warnock said at the rally. "When I pointed out the ways in which there are bad corporate actors who are gouging a drug that people need that's been around for 100 years, do you know what my opponent said? He said they just need to 'eat right.'"
"While he's blaming the people of Georgia, I'm holding the pharmaceutical companies accountable. You can't lead the people unless you love the people. You can't love the people unless you walk among the people," Warnock said.
Warnock then zinged Walker for what he's repeatedly said is his opponent's lack of fitness to serve in the Senate.
"You actually have to know stuff to do this job," the senator said to applause from the audience.
Warnock, who Georgia voters first elected in a January 2021 runoff, is running for a full six-year term next month against Walker, a former University of Georgia football standout and ex-NFL player.
Walker, who has the backing of former President Donald Trump and the GOP political leadership in Washington, DC, is a first-time candidate who has sought to make the race a referendum of President Joe Biden, needling his Democratic opponent over economic issues like inflation and gasoline prices.
However, Warnock has touted his work in capping on the cost of prescription drugs for senior citizens, along with his bipartisan efforts to ease trade regulations for Georgia peanut farmers, his push for the Biden administration to move forward with a student-loan forgiveness plan, and his vote to confirm now-Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
The race remains close as the campaign enters its final days with both sides seeking to ramp up turnout in the Peach State, which backed Democrats Biden, Warnock, and Jon Ossoff in the last election cycle after years of supporting Republican candidates on a statewide level.