The United States is suffering from a “low-grade fever,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) said on Sunday when describing the political climate.
Warnock sat alongside Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) during a joint interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press” for a conversation that focused a great deal on bipartisanship. At one point, moderator Kristen Welker asked Warnock if he feels like there is a “public anger and almost mistrust of people” working across the aisle.
“I think the whole country has what I call a low-grade fever,” Warnock said. “You know some mornings you wake up and you just don’t feel really well. You can’t even put your finger on it. We’ve been through four years of COVID. And people — you know, the early years of that, the early months of that, having to shelter in, all the trauma around that. Twenty years of what felt like an endless war, and then…
