On August 15, Alabama Republicans will begin to choose their candidate for the race to fill Jeff Sessions’ Senate seat. If none of the 9 candidates wins more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two will face each other in a runoff on September 26. And the winner of that contest will face the top Democrat in a general election on December 12. So lopsided is Alabama’s electorate that any GOP nominee is likely to go on to win the general election, and so the primary is being treated as though it were the general election.
Luther Strange, the Alabama attorney general appointed to the seat in February, and Mo Brooks, congressman from the state’s 5th district, are the leading candidates in the field. So far they’re vying for the position of Most Pro-Trump Candidate Ever. Brooks’ criticisms of Trump during the 2016 primary race make his current enthusiasm for the president a touch implausible—at the time he called Trump untrustworthy and a “serial adulterer”—and indeed this may have cost him Trump’s endorsement, which on Tuesday night came via Twitter to Strange. But Brooks is firmly on the Trump Train in any case: In one ad, he vows to filibuster any budget that doesn’t fund Trump’s border wall...
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