Atlanta Business Owner King Launches Senate Challenge Of Warnock

ATLANTA — Businessman Kelvin King on Monday morning announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate in the 2022 race to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

King launched his campaign website Monday decrying the policies of President Joe Biden, claiming he was “systematically dismantling every bit of the ‘America First’ agenda” former President Donald Trump implemented over the past four years.

“Career politicians, woke corporations, and the cancel culture are all empowered while our families and small businesses are left to pay the price,” King said in a letter posted to his site telling why he is running for U.S. Senate.

The Trump supporter King espouses common conservative values of low taxes, support for national defense, limited government, the 2nd Amendment rights and religious liberties.

As Warnock, the pastor of the popular Ebenezer Baptist Church, looks to keep the senate seat he just won in January by upsetting Kelly Loeffler in one of two historic Georgia runoffs that flipped power in the upper Congressional House to Democrats, King is the first to officially vie for a challenge.

Former senator David Perdue — who was defeated in January by Jon Ossoff — has indicated that he will not look to challenge Warnock after initially hinting that he might step back into the political ring in 2022. Loeffler has yet to say if she will run, although she has started the Greater Georgia voter organization with a nod toward offsetting the efforts of former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight voter advocacy group.

King, who is a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate, a former standout college athlete, a veteran, a husband and father and a Black entrepreneur who founded construction firm Osprey Management in 2012, created the political forum Speak Georgia in 2019 with his wife Janelle hosting a series of town hall meetings across the state around the issues of small business growth and job creation.

The couple was welcomed to the Black Voices for Trump Coalition stage in 2019 by the former president during a visit to Atlanta.