The Democrat is Doug Jones..
.(The guy on the left…The guy on the right is Republican Tommy Tuberville….He beat Jeff Sessions yesterday in the primary…You remember Sessions?
A Democrat in the very Red state of Alabama isn’t something that would be called normal at this time is history…
Jones will run against Donald Trump AND WITH HIM.…
On Tuesday evening, addressing supporters and the news media after his runaway victory in the Alabama Senate Republican primary, Tommy Tuberville wasted no time in pivoting toward his general-election opponent this fall, Senator Doug Jones. In Mr. Jones’s Alabama, he said, “You don’t work for the United States of America — you spend your first three years trying to impeach the best president we’ve ever had. And he voted to impeach him!”
As for how Mr. Tuberville will try to frame the race against the Democratic incumbent in the months to come, his message is unlikely to get more complicated than that.
Mr. Tuberville succeeded in his primary campaign against Jeff Sessions in large part by keeping the race simple. His strategy began and ended with President Trump, arguing in a bevy of television ads that a vote for his opponent was a vote against the president. And according to early conversations with his campaign staff, Mr. Tuberville plans to keep Mr. Trump front and center in the general election, reminding voters of moments like Mr. Jones’s vote against Brett M. Kavanaugh, Mr. Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, in 2018, and his more recent vote against the presidentduring his impeachment trial.
But one aide for Mr. Tuberville, speaking on the condition of anonymity, added the caveat that the campaign had yet to hold many meetings about its strategy against Mr. Jones. As with most races against Democrats in Alabama, the aide joked, there wasn’t a whole lot to talk about.
But Mr. Jones has managed to navigate the in-between realm where he is both a loyal Democrat and someone who has no problems boasting that working with Republicans and the president is often in Alabama’s interest. In an interview on Wednesday, he name-dropped the state’s senior senator, Richard Shelby, as someone whose record of representing Alabama in Washington he has tried to emulate, and pointed to the 17 bills he sponsored that Mr. Trump has signed into law.
“I have the luxury of telling people in Alabama, ‘Look, I’m going to be for President Trump on issues that are good for Alabama, and I’ve done that,’” Mr. Jones said “But on the other hand, I’m going to speak out when he’s doing things that are not good for Alabama.”
And he said he was betting that voters would appreciate his independence from the president, which is not something they can expect from Mr. Tuberville….
image…Jones Senate Office/Tuberville Campaign
Former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville (right) will challenge Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Doug Jones in the November election.
If Jones is re-elected?
It will indicate that the Republicans are suffering massive losses throughout the country.
As for Turbeville?
If elected he will be favored to unseat Sen. James Inhofe(R- Okla.) ,who has for a number of years ,occupied the coveted position of Dumbest Member of the U.S. Senate.
The award is bestowed by me on a periodic basis.As all here know ,my motto remains….
“Fair and balanced as always!”
I still can’t remember where I got that from!Old age I guess!
Doug Jones after action report at go.com
…When Jones came into office, winning a special election against Roy Moore for Jeff Sessions’s vacant Senate seat in 2017, he became a rare Democrat to hold statewide office in deep-red Alabama….
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Three years later, although the national media saw his defeat as a foregone conclusion, turning their attention instead to new Democratic hopefuls in Maine and South Carolina and Kentucky, much of Jones’s staff had still felt, late into the contest, that Jones was the candidate to lead the Democratic charge against Mitch McConnell’s stranglehold on the Senate. An internal poll had shown him ahead by one point the Thursday before Election Day….
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