| With his opponent, Herschel Walker, weathering a series of scandals, can the Democratic senator from Georgia find a way to retain his seat?  Photograph by Megan Varner / Getty “We need more poets in politics.” That’s Senator Cory Booker, speaking in praise of his colleague Senator Raphael Warnock, of Georgia, a pastor turned politician who is running in a tight race to retain his seat—and possibly to hold control of the Senate for the Democrats. Reporting from the campaign trail, Benjamin Wallace-Wells takes stock of Warnock’s rhetorical and practical skills—at times, Warnock appears to him to be “the most interesting Democratic politician to emerge since Barack Obama.” Yet, for all of his talents, Warnock is running neck and neck with a flawed opponent, the former football star Herschel Walker, whose campaign has been marked by missteps and scandals. Warnock’s “relatively narrow path to an extraordinary amount of influence and power” is a test of whether a candidate who identifies democracy as a kind of heightened spiritual calling can fit himself to this decidedly unromantic era in American politics. —Ian Crouch, newsletter editor Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | 
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