Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) mentioned he prays for Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) each day after the Republican falsely claimed individuals managed the climate after Hurricane Helene hit the area.
“Now, Marjorie Taylor Greene, I know, is also from Georgia. She… did you apologize on behalf of Democrats for sending the hurricane to your own state?” late evening host Jimmy Kimmel requested Warnock on his present Tuesday. “Because it seems like a very self-destructive thing for you and the Democratic Party to do.”
“I pray for her every day,” Warnock responded.
Warnock’s feedback comply with posts by Greene on social media within the wake of devastation from Hurricane Helene and forward of Hurricane Milton’s landfall earlier this month. In a single publish on Oct. 3, she shared a picture of Helene superimposed over a map of 2020 election outcomes.
“This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election,” she wrote.
Some have advised the Georgia Republican was insinuating that the storm was focused at Republican-leaning counties.
“Yes, they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done,” Greene mentioned in one other publish on the social platform X the identical day.
Whereas a number of the most notable impacts of Helene had been centered on western North Carolina, Georgia confronted devastation as nicely, with Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) saying that a minimum of 25 individuals had died within the storm or its aftermath.
“Do you really pray for her specifically—” Kimmel requested Warnock of Greene.
“I do,” Warnock responded.
Warnock added later that Greene is “a congressperson from our state, and representing people is no small thing.”
“I consider it the honor of my life,” he continued.
The Hill has reached out to Greene’s workplace.
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