ATLANTA — An Atlanta apartment tower has become a flashpoint in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race as Republican Herschel Walker appeared there Tuesday to blame Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Ebenezer Baptist Church for trying to evict disadvantaged residents.
No evictions have taken place at the building for failure to pay rent since June 2020, a building spokesperson said. Warnock called Walker’s allegations “a desperate attempt by a desperate candidate to sully the name of Martin Luther King Jr.’s church.”
“I’m proud of the work that Ebenezer continues to do on behalf of the most marginalized members of the human family,” Warnock, the senior pastor at the church, said when asked about the issue after he voted.
