Current Position: US Senator since 2021
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Pastor from 2005 – 2021
Other positions:  Chair, Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade:
Chair, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection

Warnock has been the senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005. He came to prominence in Georgia politics as a leading activist in the campaign to expand Medicaid in the state under the Affordable Care Act. Warnock is the first African American to represent Georgia in the Senate, and the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from a Southern state.

Incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock won the 2020–2021 special election against incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler to fill the remainder of former Sen. Johnny Isakson’s term. (Isakson had resigned at the end of 2019, and Loeffler was appointed by Governor Brian Kemp following Isakson’s resignation.) No candidate in the open election on November 3 received the 50% required by Georgia law to avoid a run-off, a type of election colloquially known as a “jungle primary”[100]—Warnock received just 32.9% of the vote—and so, a run-off election between Warnock and Loeffler was held on January 5, 2021, which Warnock won with 51% of the vote.

Former Republican senator David Perdue, who narrowly lost his race to Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff in 2021,[101] and former U.S. Representative Doug Collins[102] both considered challenging Warnock, but each eventually announced he is not running.[103]

Former NFL player, Georgia native, and Heisman Trophy-winning University of Georgia running back Herschel Walker,[104] who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump,[105] defeated banking executive Latham Saddler[106] and others in the Republican primary.

Source: Wikipedia

Current Position: Business owner since 2002
Affiliation: Republican
Candidate: 2023 US Senator