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 Re: Democrat Doug Jones beats Roy Moore to claim deep-red Alabama Senate seat (Re: Kostawi)
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In a stunning upset, Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s Senate special election Tuesday.
With 95 percent of the votes counted, the Associated Press declared Jones the winner.
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Jones, a former U.S. attorney who prosecuted Ku Klux Klan members for an infamous 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, will be the first Democrat to represent deep-red Alabama in the Senate in 20 years. He fills the seat left vacant by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and is not up for re-election until 2020.
The upset is an embarrassment for President Donald Trump, who threw his full support behind Moore even after multiple allegations emerged that he had pursued sexual relationships with teenagers as an adult. It’s also a shot in the arm for Democrats, who are hoping that anger at Trump and congressional Republicans will fuel a “wave” election in 2018, flipping the U.S. House of Representatives, and perhaps even the Senate, blue.
Moore, a former judge who was removed from office twice before running for the Senate, was caught off guard by the allegations against him. One woman said Moore touched her sexually when she was 14; another said he sexually assaulted her when she was just 16 years old and he was an assistant district attorney.
Moore vehemently refuted the allegations, but several high-profile Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, said they believed the women, who made the accusations on the record. Trump, however, never abandoned Moore, even cutting a robocall for him in Alabama that called Jones a “puppet of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.” Trump won the state last year by 28 points, and his failure to push Moore over the finish line could spell trouble for the unpopular president’s political strategy going forward.
Liz GoodwinSenior National Affairs Reporter
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