Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., told comedian Jon Stewart during an interview on Monday that he wasn’t in love with politics when pressed on whether he could separate it from his faith.
Stewart jokingly asked Warnock if he would rather convert someone to Christianity or to being a Democrat, which prompted laughs from the senator and the audience. Stewart followed up by asking if the Democratic senator is able to separate politics from faith.
“Absolutely. Look, Democrats have got some issues too,” he said, and Stewart agreed.
“I am honored that I get to work in that arena. But for me, I put up with politics. I am not in love with politics,” Warnock continued.
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“Why do you? What is it about politics? Is politics the vessel by which you can execute the plan that you believe is more godly?” Stewart asked.
Warnock touted being able to write legislation that capped insulin costs for seniors and said he was in love with change.
“Public policy is a matter of life and death. Faith and politics is about life and death. I put up with politics because every now and then I get to do something amazing like that,” he said. “For me, as much as I love this office, I don’t need this office. I think leadership is about an orientation, not about an office. And I am always going to find some way to serve, because that is what gives me fulfillment and joy. That is what I have been put here for.”
Warnock argued in an interview in May that Democrats need to ditch the jargon and communicate with young men who have fled their party in recent years.
“We have to resist the false dichotomy between standing up for women and standing up and being a very clear voice against misogyny and sexism, which I talked about at length a couple of Sundays ago in my pulpit, and at the same time, seeing the ways in which men and young men, in particular, young, Black men in unique ways and Latino men, are hurting and somebody’s got to speak to that,” he said.
“It’s a whole range of issues,” Warnock, who is a pastor, continued. “I think so many of our young people feel demoralized.”
He said that Democrats often get caught up with jargon.
“I think sometimes we get caught up in our jargon on the left, and people sometimes don’t know what the heck you’re talking about,” he warned. “I think speaking plain English — because more often than not, our policies would actually be more helpful. Right? But you got to speak plain English to folks.”
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Fox News’ Alexander Hall contributed to this report.
