Alabama GOP Senate primary goes to runoff: Jeff Sessions vs Tommy Tuberville

[TomSea]

Alabama GOP Senate primary goes to runoff: Jeff Sessions vs Tommy Tuberville
Published Wed, Mar 4 20201:36 AM EST
Christina Wilkie   @christinawilk

Key Points

    The Alabama Republican U.S. Senate primary is headed for a runoff, NBC News projected early Wednesday morning.

    Tuesday’s primary contest pitted former Alabama senator and Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions against Rep. Bradley Byrne and political newcomer Tommy Tuberville, a former Auburn University football coach.

    Sessions and Tuberville will face each other in a runoff later this month. They finished as the top two candidates, and neither reached 50%.

Read more at:  https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/alabama-gop-senate-primary-jeff-sessions-to-face-tommy-tuberville-in-runoff.html

[jmyrlefuller]

Crisis averted.

[Applewood]

Interesting, since a lot of us outside Alabama thought Sessions' biggest competitor was Roy Moore.  Guess I'm going to have to read up on this new guy.

[jmyrlefuller]

Interesting, since a lot of us outside Alabama thought Sessions' biggest competitor was Roy Moore.  Guess I'm going to have to read up on this new guy.

Former Auburn football coach and political novice. Trump appears to be backing his campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tuberville

[Applewood]

Thanks @jmyrlefuller

[PeteS in CA]

From the article, as updated:

Sessions and Tuberville will face each other in a runoff later this month. They finished as the top two candidates, and neither reached 50%. With 99% of the vote tallied by Wednesday morning, Tuberville had 33.4% and Sessions had 31.6%. Byrne ended up in third with 25.2%.

Disgraced former judge Roy Moore, who has been accused of sexual misconduct against teenage girls decades ago, netted 6.9%. ...