You saw the candidates vote and what the President has to say about who ought to be Alabama’s next U.S. Senator.
And it began before there even was a race.
Instead, Bentley appointed odd to the Senate seat, effectively shutting down the probe.
The election for Sessions’ seat was originally going to take place in 2018 along with the regular midterm election, but Bentley’s replacement, Gov. Kay Ivey, moved it to December 2017. Will it encourage him to “triangulate” – that is, to cut deals with Chuck and Nancy without regard to the views of McConnell and other GOP stalwarts.
“I’m so happy. I prayed and God answered my prayers”, Patricia Riley Jones of Abbeville said as she outstretched her arms to hold a Moore sign and America flags high aloft above her head.
Moore, 70, has been ousted from his state Supreme Court position twice.
Roy Moore’s reading of the Bible has long informed the way the former chief justice of Alabama interpreted the law, and it promises to continue to do so now that he has won the Alabama Republican primary.
For his part, unusual promised to continue helping Trump. “Doug Jones is a man of character and integrity, who is unafraid to stand up for what’s right and has a proven record of independence that will serve Alabama families in the U.S. Senate”. Moore secured Brooks’ endorsement fewer than two weeks from election day.
Odd served as Alabama’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017. Even with President Trump’s help, odd couldn’t make the race competitive.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon threw his support behind Moore. Or he will win and become one more wild card in an unruly caucus that has made governing hard in the era of President Donald Trump.
The senator said his defeat was also not “for lack of a good campaign team”. Moore had campaigned on the promise that he would install the monument, and declared during his 2001 swearing-in that “God’s law will be publicly acknowledged in our court”.
He seemed to take the attack ads personally, complaining about them in interviews and at every rally.
And if Moore does make it to Washington, he’s guaranteed to be a thorn in the side of McConnell and GOP leadership.
AL.com was able to speak to a few supporters before a unusual campaign official said the area of the hotel lobby where supporters were congregating was off limits to the press.
Meanwhile, Moore had been making political hay out of the establishment support for unusual. After Bentley’s resignation because of a political scandal, then-Lt.
Moore has been an intensely controversial figure in Alabama for over a decade.
Bannon, who campaigned with Moore on Monday, joined in the Washington bashing, accusing party elites of thinking Alabama voters are nothing but “a pack of morons”. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson endorsed Moore. That can mean you hate your black neighbors, or you’re a social justice warrior who thinks the word “becky” is just as bad as saying “nigger”. “So I think can be the right kind of Democrat who will get consideration from Alabamians who otherwise knee-jerk toward Republicans”.
He’s said “homosexual conduct should be illegal”, suggested the september 11, 2001 attacks happened because America has turned away from God, and claimed that parts of the American Midwest were living under Muslim Sharia law.