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U.S. Rep. Martha Roby won Alabama's Republican runoff on Tuesday, fighting through lingering fallout from her years-old criticism of then-candidate Donald Trump in a midterm contest that hinged on loyalty to the GOP president. The four-term incumbent will now represent the GOP on the November ballot having defeated Bobby Bright, a former Democrat who tried to cast himself as the more authentic Trump ally in the low-turnout Republican contest.
Roby, now in her fourth term in Congress, had faced major backlash from conservative voters after saying in 2016 she wouldn't vote for Trump when the then-Republican presidential nominee was heard bragging about groping and kissing women without consent in a leaked "Access Hollywood" tape. Her disavowal of Trump has since continued to dog her, forcing her into a runoff on Tuesday against former Rep. Bobby Bright, the Democrat-turned-Republican whom Roby unseated in 2010, after she failed to win a majority of the June primary vote in Alabama's heavily agrarian 2nd District.
Nowhere is the Republican Party's dominance in Alabama more obvious than on the ballot in Tuesday's primary runoff. The only ballot voters in Morgan, Limestone and Lawrence counties will see is a Republican one.
In this June 8, 2018 file photo, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall speaks during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Marshall and former Attorney General Troy King face off in Tuesday's Republican runoff in the race for attorney general.
Only a handful of statewide races are on the ballot in Alabama's runoff election on Tuesday, and all that action is on the Republican side. Most attention nationally will go to the U.S. House race in southeastern Alabama between Rep. Marta Roby and former congressman Bobby Bright.
In this May 30, 2018, file photo, U.S. Rep. Martha Roby, of Alabama, campaigns at a fish fry in Andalusia, Ala. Roby drew a backlash for criticizing Donald Trump two years ago.
"Breaking News" has become a television cliche and heartbreaking news has become the norm in an America that celebrated its birthday last week. As this nation observed the July 4 holiday on Wednesday, there was disunity in the United States and fear in "the home of the brave."
Standing before a portrait of George Washington, President Donald Trump announces about $60 billion worth of annual tariffs on Chinese imports, at the White House in Washington, March 22, 2018. If President Trump loves Alabama, which he says he does, and if Alabamians by and large love him back, why then is he kicking us in the shins? This isn't about immigration.
Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate election Tuesday, defeating Republican candidate Roy Moore to become the first Democratic candidate to win a Senate race since the 1990s. Kirsten Fiscus / The Anniston Star Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate election Tuesday, defeating Republican candidate Roy Moore to become the first Democratic candidate to win a Senate race since the 1990s.
Marshall officials say Todd May announced his retirement to employees at the Huntsville facility on Monday. It takes effect July 27. A statement from Rep. Mo Brooks of Huntsville says May is being replaced on an acting basis by Marshall's deputy director, Joan A. "Jody" Singer.
Alabama is appealing a federal judge's order to make the state's lethal injection procedures public and to unseal other court records about an aborted execution in the state. Chief District Judge Karon O. Bowdre on Thursday stayed her order to make the protocol and sealed hearing transcripts public as the Department of Corrections appeals.
U.S. Representative Martha Roby talks with cosmetology students as she tours the Lurleen B. Wallace Community College MacArthur Campus in Opp, Ala. on Wednesday May 30, 2018, while campaigning for re-election in south Alabama.
The Alabama Department of Corrections said 57-year-old Jeffrey Lynn Borden was found hanging by a bed sheet in his cell during a security check at 2:30 a.m. He was pronounced dead at 3 a.m., a prison spokesman said. Borden was convicted of killing his estranged wife, Cheryl Borden, and her father, Roland Harris, in Jefferson County in 1993.
Last December, Democrat Doug Jones won a Senate race in Alabama by defeating a horribly flawed Republican candidate Roy Moore. For the first time, it appeared that the Democrats had a plausible path to winning control of the U.S. Senate in 2018.
"The people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends!" - President Donald Trump, December 12, 2018 With these statements following the calamitous U.S. Senate loss still reverberating uncomfortably, Alabama Republicans are facing the very real prospect of now losing a statewide office on the back of an inappropriate, distressing, distasteful candidate.
Most states are blue states or purple states, and the only way to turn a purple state red is the old-fashioned way: by driving America First Republicans and independents to the polls, and outnumbering the tens of millions of anti-American voters throughout the country. President Trump has kept most of his promises , and our nation needs lawmakers who will fulfill the promises they make as candidates.
In this March 26, 2015 file photo, Tuscaloosa mayor Walt Maddox speaks during the ceremony as Nick and Terry Saban's Nick's Kids Foundation and the City of Tuscaloosa dedicated the newly constructed Nick's Kids Playground at the new Alberta School of Performing Arts in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Maddox said Alabama has serious problems, but says he sees only rhetoric coming out of Montgomery.
Bruce Boynton, an unheralded civil rights pioneer arrested for sitting in the whites-only section of a bus station in 1958, is being recognized in his native Alabama.
Alabama voters will decide this November whether the state will become anti-abortion and will allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed on state property such as courts and schools. The two proposed constitutional amendments, passed by lawmakers during this year's legislative session, will appear as referendums on the general-election ballot.
ATMORE, Ala. - An Alabama man convicted of sending mail bombs during a wave of Southern terror has been executed for killing a federal judge, becoming the oldest prisoner put to death in the U.S. in modern times.