Posted on 08/15/2017 11:34:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Voters in Alabama head to the polls on Tuesday to choose Republican and Democratic nominees for a U.S. Senate seat, in a race that has been dominated by debate over President Donald Trump.
Nine Republicans and seven Democrats are competing in the respective primaries, with little expectation that any candidate will reach the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff election next month between the top two vote-getters in each contest.
The outcome in the Republican primary could give an indication whether Trump remains popular nine months after he easily won Alabama in the presidential election.
Luther Strange is one of the three leading contenders on the Republican side, along with U.S. Representative Mo Brooks and former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore. They have battled for weeks over which of them is most supportive of Trump's legislative agenda.
Strange scored the president's surprise endorsement last week.
Many prominent Trump backers, including Sean Hannity of Fox News, had gravitated to Brooks' hardline stance on illegal immigration. Strange, a former Alabama attorney general, has close ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who was strongly criticized by Trump this month over the Senate's failed effort to pass healthcare legislation.
Still, the race's limited polling suggests Moore is in the lead, with Strange and Brooks fighting for second place.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I would prefer Brooks or Moore to Strange. I’d love to see a Brooks-Moore runoff, with the winner helping the loser oust Senator Shelby.
Nice try, Reuter’s, trying to get the weakest candidate, Strange, to win in order that the Democrat candidate has a better chance in Nov.
Closed starting this year
Low turnout could be good for Moore and Brooks.
Hasn’t every special election since Nov 2016 been a referendum on Trump?
This is a referendum on Mitch McConnell, not the president.
I just love how the radical leftwing media is trying to turn the Alabama Republican Senate primary into a referendum on Trump. Hey, Reuters, guest what? If I lived in Alabama, I would either vote for Mo Brooks or Roy Moore. And then I would STILL 100% back President Donald Trump! So UP YOURS, Reuters, you despicable POSes!!
So Reuters will grow a woodie if Strange loses and tell themselves that Alabama is now in play? Ha ha ha schmucks you are embarrassing yourself and all schmuckkind.
Me too
No matter how it turns out Trump is the loser.
Kind of like Georgia 6, right, Reuters?
Most Trump supporters think for themselves. For example I support Trump and I don’t either Moore or Brooks.
Ditto. I filled in the oval this a.m. for Mo.
Perhaps the Alabama voters love President Trump so much that they will give him what he needs (Moore or Brooks) not what he wants.
In view that the puppetmaster must have known this election would be key, he even-handedly paid the “white nationalists”, the anitfa, and apparently the governments of Charlottesville and Virginia to foment a race riot over the weekend.
I have my fingers crossed that L. Strange will be eliminated from the run off. Sorry, Donald.
Any returns yet?
GOP special election will be a run-off between Roy Moore (~39% approval) and incumbent Luther Strane (~31%). Mo Brooks finished 3rd with ~20% and is out of the running.
Former USDA Doug Jones easily won the 8-horse Democrat primary with ~64%.
Many think Jones will mount a strong and credible challenge to the eventual Republican candidate.
All I can think about right now is the "William F. Buckley Jr. Rule" - vote for the most conservative candidate who can win.
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