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Moore was the first Republican to lose a United States Senate election in Alabama since Richard Sellers in 1992. Jones became the first Democrat to gain a Senate seat since Richard Shelby defeated incumbent Republican Jeremiah Denton in 1986 in a similarly narrow election, though Shelby joined the Republican Party eight years later.
[14] [15] Jones was the first Democratic candidate to win a statewide election in Alabama since former lieutenant governor Lucy Baxley was elected president of the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2008. [434] Jones was sworn into office on January 3, 2018, becoming the first Democratic U.S. senator from Alabama since Howell Heflin left ...
Roy Moore’s announcement that he would once again run for the U.S. Senate in Alabama sent a shudder through the Republican Party and raised a question: Could the GOP have avoided this scenario ...
Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore refused to concede the race to Democrat Doug Jones on Tuesday,
Roy Moore released a YouTube video on Wednesday refusing to concede the Alabama Senate election he lost to his Democratic rival Doug Jones one day earlier.
A CBS News poll conducted a few weeks prior to the December 12, 2017 election for the Alabama State Senate revealed that "71 percent of Alabama Republicans say the allegations against Roy Moore are false," [55] and that the Democrats and media were behind the charges. While the CBS poll showed Moore leading the election, a Washington Post poll ...
Despite calls by President Trump and others, Roy Moore refuses to concede the Alabama Senate election.
Roy Moore refused to concede to Doug Jones Tuesday evening after the Democrat defeated him in the race for Jeff Sessions’ former Senate seat.