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Warnock compared America to communist Cuba, said Fidel Castro had 'complex' legacy in resurfaced video

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The Rev. Raphael Warnock, whose Senate runoff race in Georgia will help decide which party controls Congress’ upper chamber next year, is again facing criticism over controversial past comments.

In a resurfaced video of a speech he made shortly after the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in 2016, he compared political prisoners in Cuba to Black Americans who are unfairly treated under the U.S.

criminal justice system. “If some people get slapped on the hand for the same crime, and others go to federal prison, then we too have our own political prisoners,” he said.

In this Nov. 15, file photo Raphael Warnock, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, speaks during a campaign rally in Marietta, Ga.

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