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Full remarks by Raphael Warnock to his supporters
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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Here are his full remarks:
Rev. Warnock addresses his supporters
Rev. Raphael Warnock appears to claim victory in an online message streamed just after midnight on Jan. 6, 2021.
Thank you.
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My roots are planted deeply in Georgia soil.
…A child who grew up in the Kayton Homes housing projects of Savannah, Georgia. Number 11 of 12 children.
… A proud graduate of Morehouse College and the Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of Martin Luther King Jr. and Congressman John Lewis.
…A son of my late father who was a pastor, a veteran and a small businessman and my mother who, as a teenager growing up in Waycross, Georgia, used to pick somebody’s else’s cotton. But the other day, because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States Sena
Democrat Raphael Warnock said early Wednesday morning that he is “going to the Senate to work for all of Georgia.” Sen. Kelly Loeffler has not conceded.
Warnock triumphs; If Jon Ossoff hangs on, U.S. Senate will switch hands
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Democrat Raphael Warnock has won the special Senate election to replace former GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson, making him the first person of color to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate.
The Associated Press called the race for Warnock at 2 a.m. Wednesday. At that point, Warnock had already declared victory in brief comments shortly after midnight.
Pushed by his parents to work hard, Warnock left Savannah and became the first member of his family to graduate from college, helped by Pell grants and low-interest student loans. He earned a Ph.D. in theology that led to a career in the pulpit, eventually as head pastor of the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached.
Now Warnock, 51, will go to Washington as the first Black senator elected from Georgia, a Southern state still grappling with its painful history of slavery, segregation and racial injustice.
“Only in America is my story even possible,” Warnock told the cheering drive-in crowd Sunday.
`Only in America : Warnock s rise from poverty to US senator
by Russ Bynum, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 6, 2021 11:13 am EDT
Last Updated Jan 6, 2021 at 11:14 am EDT
SAVANNAH, Ga. 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. “He said, `Boy, you can’t sleep late in my house. Get up, get dressed, put your shoes on. Get ready.’”