Alabama lawyers, coal executive indicted on bribery charges
U.S. Attorney Jay Town, right, discusses the indictment of two prominent lawyers and a coal executive during a news conference in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, Sept.
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After Moore’s Alabama win, Dems see sliver of hope in Jones
Shaking hands and greeting diners at a popular lunch stop, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones is hoping to persuade Alabamians to break a two-decade habit of voting Republican. A day after Republicans picked firebrand jurist Roy Moore as their nominee, Democrats see an opening, even if it's a narrow one, for a rare Southern victory in a statewide election.
Steve Bannon taunts Trump over Roy Moore victory: The people are ‘6-0 in these elections’
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon mocked President Trump on Wednesday for backing the so-called Republican establishment favorite Luther Strange over Roy Moore in the GOP's Alabama U.S. Senate seat runoff. "We're 6-0 in these elections," Bannon told Sirius XM's "Breitbart News Daily," referring to "we, the people" and the slew of special elections held under the Trump administration.
Roy Moore: Meet the controversial Alabama Republican who upset…
Roy Moore is a widely popular, and deeply controversial, hardline conservative who won the Republican party's nomination for Alabama's open Senate seat. Moore has promoted conspiracy theories, including "birtherism," is virulently anti-gay, and has twice been removed from his position as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
In Alabama, a Trump miscalculation in Senate primary
26, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala. Moore won the Alabama Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate on Tuesday... .
Luther Strange’s defeat is bad for Trump. It’s worse for McConnell
A firebrand Alabama jurist wrested a U.S. Senate nomination from an appointed incumbent backed by millions of dollars from national Republicans, adding a new chapter Tuesday to an era of outsider politics that ushered Donald Trump into the White House yet leaves his presidency and his party in disarray. Roy Moore's 9-point victory over Sen. Luther Strange, backed by the White House and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, ranks as a miscalculation and temporary embarrassment for the president; it's a more consequential rebuke for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whom Moore said should step aside as GOP floor chief.
Trump tweets supporting losing candidate deleted
President Donald Trump's most recent tweets urging Alabamians to vote for Sen. Luther Strange disappeared from his verified Twitter account Tuesday night, after the candidate was projected to lose the Republican primary runoff for a Senate seat. On Tuesday morning, Trump had tweeted: "ALABAMA, get out and vote for Luther Strange - he has proven to me that he will never let you down! #MAGA" Earlier in the morning, Trump had tweeted: "Luther Strange has been shooting up in the Alabama polls since my endorsement.
Trump’s recent tweets supporting Luther Strange deleted after projected loss
President Donald Trump's most recent tweets urging Alabamans to vote for Sen. Luther Strange disappeared from his verified Twitter account Tuesday night, after the candidate was projected to lose the Republican primary runoff for a Senate seat. On Tuesday morning, Trump had tweeted: "ALABAMA, get out and vote for Luther Strange - he has proven to me that he will never let you down! #MAGA" Earlier in the morning, Trump had tweeted: "Luther Strange has been shooting up in the Alabama polls since my endorsement.
Firebrand jurist Moore wins GOP primary runoff in Alabama
Firebrand jurist Roy Moore won the Alabama Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating an appointed incumbent backed by both President Donald Trump and deep-pocketed allies of Sen. Mitch McConnell. In an upset certain to rock the GOP establishment, Moore clinched a nine-point victory over Sen. Luther Strange to take the GOP nomination for the seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Strange days: Trump-backed candidate loses Alabama primary to firebrand conservative
A United States Senate primary run-off election in the deep red Republican state of Alabama would not, in normal times, be a big deal. This vote was to decide the Republican candidate for the Senate seat left open by the appointment of Jeff Sessions as US President Donald Trump's Attorney-General.
A tough start for GOP in a high-stakes week
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., right, speaks to an aide as he appears before a Senate Finance Committee hearing to consider the Graham-Cassidy healthcare proposal, on Capitol Hill, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, in Washington.
Alabama: Donald Trump Isn’t Moving The Needle
U.S. president Donald Trump 's trip to Alabama didn't help U.S. Senator Luther Strange , the choice of the "Republican" establishment to replace attorney general Jeff Sessions in the "Heart of Dixie." According to the latest data from The Trafalgar Group , whose polls are conducted by GOP strategist Robert Cahaly , Strange is still trailing former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore .
It’s Pence vs. Bannon in final day of Alabama Senate race
Sen. Luther Strange and Roy Moore are into the final hours of a hard-fought intra-party campaign that is testing President Donald Trump's influence with Republican voters and could set the stage for a series of GOP Senate primaries next year. The final day of campaigning here features Vice President Mike Pence as Strange's most visible advocate and Steve Bannon, the recently ousted former White House chief strategist, stumping for Moore.
Bannon to conservatives: Fear GOP establishment
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon told conservatives Sunday at a rally that they needn't worry about Democrats but instead should focus on the "corrupt and incompetent Republican establishment."
Trump did not invent the name ‘Big Luther’ Strange
On the occasions when President Donald Trump's rambling 90-minute speech in Huntsville, Alabama, on Friday wandered back to its advertised subject, the reelection campaign of Republican Sen. Luther Strange, the president tended to marvel less at the candidate's politics than his height. "I said, 'That is the tallest human being I've ever seen!' " Trump said, recalling when he first met Strange before this year's health-care reform battles.
Trump Slams McCain for Opposing Latest Republican Attempt to Overhaul Health Care
President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in support of Sen. Luther Strange, Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, in Huntsville, Alabama.
Elect swamp drainer, Trump tells Alabama
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One in Morristown, N.J., to travel Friday to Huntsville, Ala., for a campaign rally for Senate candidate Luther Strange. HUNTSVILLE, Ala.
Trump assures voters Strange is a stronger Senate candidate
President Donald Trump says his pick in the Republican runoff for Senate in Alabama is getting a "bum rap" as a friend of the Senate's majority leader. The distance Trump is trying to put between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and incumbent Sen. Luther Strange is a sign of the divided loyalties emerging in the Alabama race.
Trump Wades Deeper Into Alabama Primary At Strange Rally – With Some Hesitation
President Trump traveled to Alabama Friday night to stump for his chosen candidate, Sen. Luther Strange, ahead of Tuesday's bitter GOP Senate primary. But even he acknowledged his alliance with the appointed senator was somewhat strange given the fact that so many of his allies - such as former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, former national security aide Sebastian Gorka and former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin - are all backing Strange's opponent, former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.
Bentley notes: Marsh threat, Strange promises over Senate seat
In interviews for Jeff Sessions' vacant Senate seat, Luther Strange promised to "do more" to help former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley. And state Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, "seemed angry" and allegedly threatened to "f - k with" Bentley for the next two years if he wasn't appointed, according to handwritten notes Bentley made from the interviews.