>> We are in just the closing weeks of these Georgia runoffs. So any big breaking news
could be the thing that clinches it. And for Reverend Warnock there's a little bit of bad
news. I was on Twitter and someone who works for the NRSC apparently unearthed a video from 2017
Reverend Warnock, and that Republican was spreading this to destroy his campaign.
And, well, here it is. >> While others were sleeping,
members of the United States Senate
declared war, launched a vicious and evil attack on the most vulnerable people in America.
Harrot is on the loose. Harrot is a cynical politician who's willing to kill children
and kill the children's health program in order to preserve his own wealth and his own power.
Hope is in the air, but hell is on the loose.
The hopes and the fears of all the years have met indeed tonight. And so on Friday night,
the United States Senate decided by a slim majority to pick the pockets of the poor,
the sick, the old, and the yet unborn in order to line the pockets of the ultra-rich.
Don't tell me about gangsters and thugs on the streets. There are more gangsters and thugs in
Washington, DC in the Capitol, than there are. >>
So that was in response to the 2017 Trump tax cut bill passing and it was also
the best thing that Warnock has ever said.
That's his best moment on video. Brought to you by someone who works for the NRSC
believing that that video is gonna own Warnock. What is wrong with people?
I tweeted what kind of mold has to be infesting your brain for you to watch that and think
we got him, he said that giving trillions of dollars to the ultra-wealthy makes them thugs.
Yeah, that's like the nicest way to characterize that actually.
>> Yeah, no, I've just like a lot of love, lot of endearment. And also let's never forget that the
fake populism from the right claims to say the same things. That you're being robbed.
That everyone in the White House or in Washington, they're the swamp and they're all corrupt.
Except they are actually the swamp, except they just want more and more
swamp. And they are the swamp creatures. They've only made it more swampy. And yet
when Warnock says something or if Bernie says something,
well then they're anti-American. Well then they're terrible, we should drag them through the mud.
>> So- >> Yeah.
>> The double standard around if you're progressive,
if you're black, and you call out corruption in Washington!
But it Trump wants to co-opt your message, and he wants to lift everything you say,
like he's lifted Bernie's lines wholesale and repackaged it as his own fake right-wing populism.
Wow, genius, amazing, wins elections. >> Exactly, it's just sheer madness.
Look they've been trying to make him out to be some crazy. I mean they call Pete Buttigieg
a communist, but they're trying to call him a communist and all of that making him out. Kelly
Loeffler's strategy was to just keep calling him radical liberal Warnock over and over and over.
And the thing is okay, maybe that'll work. Maybe that'll scare Georgia away from him personally.
He isn't that crazy left by the way, there's plenty that we disagree with him on.
But I will also say, if he's able to get enough of his ads out and get it in front of enough people.
The thing he has going for him is, even though I disagree with him on some things in politics,
there is something sort of fundamentally likable about him. And not just that he can do videos from
when he was a pastor like what we just showed you. But I also wanna show you his ad strategy.
Here's one of his most recent ones, encourage people ad. Just came out today
and just tell me that you can watch this and not think that stood up next to Kelly Loeffler, whose
best case scenario, the best interpretation of her is that she's a robot.
Who thinks that this guy is unlikable?
>> There's a lot of stuff to do this time of year. Get the tree, done. Hang the lights,
not yet. Wrap presents, check. But this year, there's one extra thing to do.
Vote. That's right, early voting starts December 14. So make voting part of your
holiday plans. It'll probably take you less time than it'll take me to do this.
I'm Raphael Warnock and I approve this message. >> I am sorry, that's likable. Is that
not likable? Am
I crazy? Am I just getting like pulled in? >> That's a good writer. That is a good writer.
>> No, that's good. >> I was like where is that light joke going?
It comes back in the end, gets you. It does a great callback. It's hard not to like that. Wow,
and it's zero political. He really doesn't even say
what he's about, and I know as progressives we hate that. We hate that it's only about
likability. We insist that it's about policy and it's always about that.
Actually it's not. It is about coming across as human and as relatable. And maybe that sounds
icky to people but I actually think it's a good thing to also have that. And by the same token,
you need face to face contact. You need direct conversations with people. And
I know folks in Georgia are still knocking doors because they realize the value of that.
Obviously they're doing it safely, but once again, I know we have an allergic reaction to being like,
why are you trying to be cute, just tell me if you're for Medicare for all.
And sadly that is not the way politics are played. And that's sadly not the way you win.
>> Exactly, yeah, we can want both. And the right, man, like Sean Hannity will show
here's the radical agenda of the squad. And he shows all these policies that are awesome. But
do you remember, the ultimate example of this, and I don't know, there should be at term for this.
When something that is objectively awesome is pitched as a thing that's gonna destroy someone.
Do you remember when they thought they were gonna make a fool out of or destroy
AOC with her college dancing video? And it's like the most joyous video I've ever seen.
There are videos of people like feeding pizza to a pack of chubby
raccoons that are less joyous than her dancing, this flower of youth.
And they're like, we got her, she's going down. They are so out of touch, not just politically,
but with something fundamental to being a human,
to being happy, to living in the light. >> Look at her smiling and moving her body
in squiggle ways to the sound of words that have a beat harmony.
>> Worse than the Footloose villain. >> They're all the Footloose villain,
everyone in the GOP is just the Footloose villain. But yeah,
when that video was about to drop I was like, no, here we
go. This is my college video. Someone's drunk. >> And high, we're double faded, what's going on?
I don't know or this is some Mardi Gras thing. No, it's an adorable and wasn't it for a cause?
It was for her class and stuff and it was- >> Yeah, yeah, it was totally, yeah. And it didn't
matter if she just did it. It's joy. You know what people want, you know what people would support?
Moving in squiggle away is 2024. That's what people want, okay?