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Senate Democrat says Trump ‘needs a lot of prayer’

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by Elvia Limon - 04/05/26 11:14 AM ET

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by Elvia Limon - 04/05/26 11:14 AM ET

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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) said in an interview that aired on Easter Sunday that he prays for President Trump, adding that he “needs a lot of prayer.”

The Georgia senator, a Baptist pastor, confirmed to Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union that he “absolutely” prays for Trump becuase “he has influence and power over people I care about.”

Warnock said he affirms Trump’s humanity, but part of his prayer “is about accountability.”

“I have to be honest about what he’s doing. His kind of unabashed, unvarnished bigotry, the cruelty that he is unleashing on American streets through his version of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], those things have to be condemned,” he told Tapper.

“And so, for me, prayer and prophetic speech, which holds power accountable, those two things go hand in hand. I am not about to be the chaplain blessing that which is ungodly and unjust,” Warnock added.

Warnock and Trump have previously criticized each other over religion.

After Trump posted on Truth Social about a 2024 interview with Warnock, where he claimed the senator used “religion to try and divide the entire country,” the senator responded by saying Trump “ought to read the Bible.”

And, in February, Warnock told The Root in an exclusive interview that, “in Donald Trump’s White House, Jesus is a victim of identity theft.”

Warnock also criticized the president over an FBI raid of a Fulton County, Ga., election office in January.

Federal agents raided the Atlanta-area elections office on Jan. 28 to execute a search warrant for records related to the 2020 presidential election. The seizure followed Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 presidential election, when he lost to former President Biden, was stolen due to voter fraud.

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