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Roy Moore Wins Alabama's Senate Republican Primary

The Republican nominee will face Democratic candidate Doug Jones in December’s general election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Source: Brynn Anderson / AP

Former judge Roy Moore won the Republican nomination on Tuesday evening in the Alabama special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, defeating the Trump-endorsed former state attorney general Luther Strange.

Moore is an insurgent candidate who was removed from the Alabama Supreme Court in 2003 after refusing to move a monument to the Ten Commandments from the state

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