By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Rev. Raphael Warnock's roots showed little promise of a future that led to the U.S. Senate. He grew up in Savannah in the Kayton Homes public housing project, the second youngest of 12 children. His mother as a teenager had worked as a sharecropper picking cotton and tobacco. His father was a preacher who also made money hauling old cars to a local scrapyard. 'My daddy used to wake me up every morning at dawn,' Warnock told a hometown crowd at a drive-in rally two days before his election Tuesday. […]

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