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It all started when Trump picked Jeff Sessions as his attorney general and injected Alabama politics - the Luv Guv, Luther Strange and the Roy Moore carnival of crazy - into the national spotlight. Alabama's weird special election collided with the #MeToo movement and spun into America's biggest political soap opera in November/December.
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Dr. John E. Warren says that African Americans should be focused on "voter registration" and not candidate endorsements at this stage of the game. The African Americans who have convinced themselves that one vote doesn't matter, should take a very close look at what happened during the recent special election in Alabama.
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Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin, who has been fighting President Donald Trump's travel ban and other policies over the past year, has announced he will run for U.S. Congress. Chin, a Democrat, seeks to replace Hawaii U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, who is running for governor.
Alabama Republican Roy Moore on Friday told supporters that the "battle is not over" in Alabama's Senate race even though President Donald Trump and others have called on him to concede. Moore sent a fundraising email to supporters asking for contributions to his "election integrity fund' so he could investigate reports of voter fraud.
US politician Roy Moore has told supporters that the "battle is not over" in Alabama's Senate race even though US President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, and others have called on him to concede. Moore sent a fundraising email to supporters asking for contributions to his "election integrity fund" so he could investigate reports of voter fraud.
Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore is not conceding to Democrat Doug Jones, telling campaign supporters "it's not over." Campaign chairman Bill Armistead says that because the vote is close and approaching the state's recount requirement, "we do not have a final decision on the outcome."
In a controversial special election in Alabama on Tuesday, Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in a close race for the state's seat in the U.S. Senate. The special election was held to find a candidate to replace Jeff Sessions, who had resigned from his post earlier this year to serve as U.S. Attorney General.
Alabama's election of a Democrat to the U.S. Senate for the first time in a quarter-century qualifies as historic but it does not indicate a sudden massive swing in voter allegiance in that state or nationwide.
For a Republican to lose the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions one year after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Alabama by 28 points, everything had to break just right for the Democrat. And it did.
Tuesday, Doug Jones became the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama since Richard Shelby in 1992. Jones defeated his Republican opponent, Roy Moore, in Alabama's special Senate election.
A supporter of Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore wears President Trump's signature baseball cap in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday. A supporter of Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore wears President Trump's signature baseball cap in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday.
Democrat Doug Jones won a bitter fight for a U.S. Senate seat in deeply conservative Alabama on Tuesday, dealing a political blow to President Donald Trump in a race defined by sexual misconduct accusations against Republican candidate Roy Moore. The stunning upset makes Jones the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama in a quarter-century and will trim the Republicans' already narrow Senate majority to 51-49, opening the door for Democrats to possibly retake the chamber in next year's congressional elections.
Doug Jones, the Democrat who pulled off a stunning upset victory in Alabama's nail-biter Senate contest on Tuesday, is considered a champion for civil rights in a state that played a seminal role in the 1960s movement for racial equality. Jones' supporters erupted in cheers and jubilation as it became clear their portly, balding candidate had become the first Alabama Democrat to win a US Senate seat in 25 years.
The Republican finger-pointing started minutes after GOP candidate Roy Moore lost to a Democrat in deep-red Alabama's Senate race, with nervous party members fearing more of the same in the 2018 election might take away their majorities in Congress. "Congratulations to the Bannon wing of the @GOP for gifting a seat to @SenateDems in one of the reddest states," Republican Representative Carlos Curbelo of Florida wrote on Twitter Wednesday, referring to Moore backer Steve Bannon, the anti-establishment ally of President Donald Trump.
The defeat of Roy Moore in Tuesday's special election in Alabama, to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, was a welcome development. But Democrats should not rush to congratulate themselves and draw too many unwarranted conclusions about the implications for the upcoming midterm elections.