In Alabama, Roy Moore’s Defiant Campaign Recalls Trump’s Outsider Status To some Alabamans, Moore is a hero. For many others, voting for him is just a way to support President Trump and defy the GOP establishment—again.By John Daniel Davidson
December 12, 2017 When Alabamans head to the polls today in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, they will choose between a liberal Democrat and a political outsider accused of sexual misconduct, whose own Republican Party doesn’t want anything to do with him. In other words, they are likely to experience déjà vu.
The contest underway in Alabama between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore bears a striking similarity to last year’s presidential election, when Alabama voters faced a similar choice.
They went overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, who beat Hillary Clinton by more than 28 points in Alabama, the largest margin of victory in a presidential contest in that state since 1972 and among the top Trump-supporting states in the country. Of course, some parts of the state were more intensely pro-Trump than others were. The Fourth Congressional District in Alabama, which stretches from the Georgia state line in the east to the Mississippi state line in the west and includes Moore’s hometown of Gadsden in Etowah County, had the highest per capita vote for Trump in the country (Trump won 80.3 percent of the vote to Hillary Clinton’s 17.4 percent).
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