Pro-Israel group criticizes Georgia Senate candidate for past sermon
Christians United for Israel slammed Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock over a 2018 sermon he gave on the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, but others have defended the candidate for a US Senate seat.
A pro-Israel group has released an attack ad against the Rev. Raphael Warnock ahead of the Democratic candidate's crucial January US Senate runoff in Georgia.
CUFI Action Fund, an organization related to the pro-Israel group Christians United for Israel, released on Dec. 23 a video accusing Warnock of “lying about the Jewish state.”
Warnock, a Baptist minister, faces Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in the Jan. 5 election. A runoff for Georgia’s other US Senate seat will take place the same day. An average of recent polls shows Warnock with a lead of just 0.5 percentage points over Loeffler — essentially a dead heat.
The CUFI video referenced a sermon Warnock gave in 2018 where he spoke about the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem and criticized evangelical Christian pastors who attended the event.
