`Only in America’: Warnock’s rise from poverty to US senator

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The man elected to be Georgia’s first Black senator calls his story one that could only happen in America. Raphael Warnock won a runoff election Tuesday to defeat Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler. The 51-year-old Baptist pastor grew up in poverty with 11 siblings in Savannah, where his father preached and made extra money hauling old cars to a scrapyard. Warnock became the first in his family to graduate from college, earned a Ph.D. in theology and later became hea