In Alabama, he said: “You can’t go two miles without some Confederate emblem or icon or flag taunting you.” He added: “It’s not a fantasy in this state to say we want to turn back the clock.’’ According to CNN exit polling, 30 percent of the electorate was African-American, with 96 percent of them voting […]
Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore in Tuesday’s Alabama Senate race with the overwhelming support of black women voters, 98 percent of whom cast their ballots for the Democrat. According to CNN’s exit polls, only 34 percent of white women voted for Jones, with 63 percent of that voter bloc offering their support to Moore instead. […]
WASHINGTON — Doug Jones’s defeat of Roy S. Moore in Tuesday’s bitterly fought special Senate election was one of the most unlikely upsets in recent campaign history. But the Democrats’ victory in Alabama carries some more immediate political implications. A Suburban Shellacking for Moore Voters in Alabama’s cities and most affluent suburbs overwhelmingly rejected Mr. […]
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Nor was it clear that Mr. Trump was any more eager to reach across the aisle and build new coalitions with Democrats even as his party’s control of the Senate narrowed to a single seat. With Wednesday’s agreement on a final tax cut bill, Mr. Trump seems poised to push through his first major achievement […]
That Alabama’s voters chose Doug Jones for the United States Senate is cause for celebration. A triumph for decency and common sense in a state that seemed for a time at risk of abandoning both, Mr. Jones’s win narrows the Republicans’ Senate majority and delivers a deeply deserved rebuke to President Trump. It is hard […]
But — but I gotta tell you, and you know where I’m headed, Dec. 12 has always been a historic day for the Jones family. This is, as you know, mine and Louise’s 25th wedding anniversary. My running mate, my partner. I could not — I could not have done this without her. The love, […]
Mr. Trump tweeted his congratulations to Mr. Jones “on a hard fought victory.” “The people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time,” he wrote. “It never ends!” Propelled by a backlash against Mr. Moore, an intensely polarizing former judge who was […]
The Roy Moore race poses exquisite difficulties for pollsters. If the Democrat, Doug Jones, manages to defeat Mr. Moore, the Republican, in deep-red Alabama on Tuesday, control of the Senate will be a true tossup in 2018. But there is no consensus about whether this is likely. On Monday, a Fox News poll showed Mr. […]
“I couldn’t vote for Roy Moore,” Mr. Shelby, who had previously said he would write in the name of another Republican, said on CNN. “The state of Alabama deserves better.” Mr. Jones’s campaign immediately turned Mr. Shelby’s remarks into an online advertisement and was planning to play parts of the interview in automated phone calls […]
I have closely studied Winston County history and have long been proud of my ancestral ties. I wanted to explore whether traditional Republicanism could fully explain how the Old South’s most independent thinkers became Trump zombies willing now to send a plausibly accused pedophile to the Senate rather than a Democrat. This political contest has […]
While Republicans in Washington have fruitlessly sought any way to exorcise Mr. Moore from the race, alarmed that he would imperil their narrow Senate majority, their nominee has all but laughed at his own party. In the last few months, he has implied that the liberal Jewish billionaire George Soros was going to hell, warned […]
With a little more than two weeks until a special election for the Senate in Alabama, President Trump on Sunday doubled down on his criticism of the Democratic nominee, Doug Jones, and reiterated his support for Roy S. Moore, the Republican candidate, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women. “The […]
“He says it didn’t happen,” the president told reporters at the White House. “You have to listen to him, also.” For the president, defending Mr. Moore is a politically fraught echo of his own campaign, in which multiple women accused Mr. Trump of sexual improprieties that he vigorously denied. Like Mr. Moore, the president insisted […]
Alabama is not Virginia, and the political leanings of suburban women do not have the same political weight here as they did Tuesday in Virginia. Census statistics show that Alabama’s voting age population is, on balance, whiter, poorer and less educated than the nation’s. Like many other Republican candidates in statewide elections in the South, […]