Posted on 08/15/2017 7:45:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Republican voters here put a bitter Senate campaign into overtime, forcing Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) into a runoff with conservative jurist Roy Moore for the right to represent Attorney General Jeff Sessionss old seat.
Strange was endorsed by President Trump, the National Rifle Association and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells super PAC, which spent $2.5 million on TV ads to boost him in Tuesdays primary. That helped push him past Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), saving national Republicans from an embarrassment in a unique mid-summer election marked by low turnout.
Democrats, who have not won a Senate race in Alabama since 1992, nominated former U.S. attorney Doug Jones over a field of fringe candidates, according to a projection by the Associated Press.
On the Republican side, Moore, with nearly 41 percent of the vote, was in first place with about two-thirds of votes counted. Strange was in second with 32 percent and Brooks was in third with 20 percent.
Stranges second-place showing despite his incumbent status served as a slim victory for Trump and Senate leaders but with an asterisk. After a tumultuous day during which Trump seemed to defend white supremacists who participated in a protest in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend that left one woman dead, Strange now faces the challenge of needing to continue to court Trumps supporters during a six-week runoff even as the national appetite for aligning with the president has diminished.
As Strange arrived at a crowded Republican victory event here, there was little worry in the hotel ballroom, at least that the presidents stumbling responses to Charlottesville would become a runoff problem. Conservatives, they said, would continue to back Trump over his critics.
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Time to give ol’blue dog Shelby his pink slip.
I wish Trump had endorsed Moore to begin with.
‘Yep. I wanted Mo but now I will vote for Moore.’
Judge Roy Moore rocks. I realise he might be too conservative for Trump since he calls homosexuals sodomites, but few patriots would support Trump more during times when the truth is uncomfortable.
In other words, Moore is right on, closer to Trump than he realises. [Such as right now.]
What made Mo better than Moore?
I suspect that Trump doesn’t like the word ‘sodomy’. It sounds too hateful to people who are criticizing Trump right now.
Trump doesn’t fully get it yet — Christian Conservatives stand for truth while moderates are weasals who eat their own.
Thank you for the explanation.
Dougie Jones?
How could Trump endorse Moore when Strange had voted the way the President wanted all up and down the line? What does that say to all the other incumbents out there? Why should they care what the President wants if they can't be guaranteed that their loyalty will be rewarded by loyalty from the Oval Office as well?
Trump should just have stayed out of it altogether,
What made Mo better than Moore?
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Mo was a Tea Party candidate. He was for fiscal responsibility and he’s proven that he will be that way once in office. He also put a one page bill before congress to REPEAL obamacare. He’s PROVEN he was going to do what he said he was going to do.
Also, Roy Moore has been financially supported by people to help him get elected and then he gets booted out of office.
He was elected to be a judge. He brought a 1000+ pound monument into a state building. It wasn’t his building to do that. Too much grandstanding for me.
Mo Brooks is a Christian too. I am not going to vote for someone just because they “out-Christianed” everyone else. If that were the case, I would vote for my preacher (trust me, I wouldn’t). I am going to vote for the person that I believe will achieve what I want from our government.
That all said, I will be voting for Roy Moore before Strange. And, if elected, I hope Roy does a good job for us.
Not Luther, but timely
Please forgive my admiration of Judge Roy Moore.
He’s one of the greats, and I hope he wins.
I am not supporting or criticizing your admiration for Roy Moore, merely offering my opinion on why Trump could not endorse him. It would have been better, as I said, if the President had just stayed out of it.
Remember there’s a runoff now before the general election.
Thank you for your well-studied insight.
When it comes to this level of ‘who’s who’ I’m just a lightweight. Glad others in the forum are better informed.
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