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Strange has trailed Roy Moore in public opinion polls, and many of Trump's usual allies are working feverishly against him to elect the upstart challenger. Republicans in Washington are keeping a close eye on President Trump and whether he has the political juice to push Sen. Luther Strange to victory in the deadlocked special election contest for an Alabama Senate seat.
Former White House strategist Stephen Bannon, shown in Indianapolis in December, is backing former judge Roy Moore in Alabama's Republican Senate runoff race against current Sen. Luther Strange. The winner will face Democrat Doug Jones during the Dec. 12 general election.
Friday marked the 54th anniversary of the infamous 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, which killed four black girls: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson were all 14, and Carol Denise McNair was 11. The blast injured 19 more, and two more black children were killed later that day: One was shot in the back by police when he ran from a scuffle with white teenagers, and one was shot by a white teenager who accosted him on his bike. The 16th Street Baptist Church was Birmingham's largest black church and staging ground for civil rights protests; it had hosted W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson.
As Republicans slug out a bitter runoff for the Senate seat formerly held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a new poll shows surprising support for Democrat Doug Jones. According to a new Emerson College Poll, Jones is nipping at the heels of Sen. Luther Strange and his challenger, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore.
Initial estimates indicate 25% of the houses in the Florida Keys have been destroyed, and 65% have major damage, said Brock Long, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's administrator. "Basically, every house in the Keys was impacted some way," Long said Tuesday.
When the time came for the Trump administration to announce it was ending DACA on Tuesday, there was a familiar face at the podium. But it wasn't the President, it was Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Fifty years ago, Thurgood Marshall, the grandson of an enslaved man who had become one of the country's most famous litigators, was about to be sworn in as the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court. And Marshall wanted to take the constitutional oath of office from Hugo Black, a white associate justice who had once been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
In the future, any special U.S. Senate races could happen during a general election cycle and not in a separate off-cycle election like the one now underway. Rep. Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, has pre-filed for next year's session a bill to allow in the event of a Senate vacancy the governor to appoint an interim senator until the next general election, which takes place every two years.
On one hand, the former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice has a Who's Who of conservative figures in his corner: James Dobson; Chuck Norris; "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson; and ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. On the other, Moore is being backed by a self-described Democrat from a Democratic-dominated industry: top Alabama trial lawyer Jere Beasley.
Members of Alabama's congressional delegation weren't bashful about criticizing white supremacist protesters this week - but Republican lawmakers have been much more reluctant to call out President Donald Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville. "I do defend the president in condemning racism and condemning the horrible acts in Charlottesville," U.S. Sen. Luther Strange told Fox Business News Thursday morning.
Alabama's famed Ten Commandments judge, Roy Moore, has forced a Senate primary runoff with president-backed incumbent Sen. Luther Strange, setting up a September showdown that could be closely watched for clues about Republicans' prospects in 2018 midterm elections. Moore, who has twice been stripped of chief justice duties for stands over the Ten Commandments and against gay marriage, rode a tide of anti-Washington sentiment and his fame as an icon of the culture wars to lead the first round of voting and secure a runoff spot.
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was twice removed from office, forced a primary runoff Tuesday against Trump-backed incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in a race likely to be closely watched for clues about Republicans' prospects in 2018 midterm elections. Despite being buoyed by millions of dollars in advertising by a super political action committee tied to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Strange was unable to defeat the firebrand jurist who took losing stands for the public display of the Ten Commandments and against gay marriage.
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U.S. Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore at Republican Women of Huntsville luncheon Tuesday June 6, 2017. U.S. Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore at Republican Women of Huntsville luncheon Tuesday June 6, 2017.
Wearing an NRA baseball cap and newly armed with an endorsement from President Donald Trump, Alabama Sen. Luther Strange on Saturday strolled by the sausage vendors and rodeo ticket booths at a rural county fair, rallying voters ahead of Tuesday's critical Republican primary for Attorney General Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat. "The day will turn on turnout.
Ever since Donald Trump hit the national stage as a serious presidential candidate, building the wall was a major part of his campaign pitch. The wall, meant to improve border security, has been the controversial focal point of the country's immigration debate.
It was in the early 1970s at Tuscaloosa's Holiday Inn. As Drake, a young civil rights attorney, walked into the governor's hotel room, it became clear to him that Wallace had seen his face before, though the two had never met.
If you're curious where Alabama voters, by and large, fall on the topic of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, consider this: "And to a striking degree in a state where Mr. Trump won 62 percent of the vote last fall, Republicans and Democrats alike have closed ranks around Mr. Sessions, who was the state attorney general before he won a Senate seat four times and joined the president's cabinet. Interviews with voters from four counties, three of which supported Mr. Trump, revealed near-absolute confidence in Mr. Sessions's virtue and conservatism, a swelling of state pride and, in this case at least, an encroaching skepticism of the president."
U.S. Senator Luther Strange and former Chief Justice Roy Moore are in a statistical tie less than three weeks before the Republican Primary for a statewide special election for Alabama's U.S. Senate, according to an exclusive new poll by the Raycom News Network and Strategy Research out of Mobile. The crowded Republican field finds only three candidates with double digit support.