Democrat Doug Jones wins Alabama Senate race in stunning victory
by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times
Dec 13, 2017
3 minutes
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Democrat Doug Jones, whose uphill bid for U.S. Senate gathered strength when Republican Roy Moore was hit with charges of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, won Alabama's special election Tuesday.
The victory by Jones, a former prosecutor, sliced the GOP's already thin Senate majority to a bare 51-49.
He will replace interim Republican Sen. Luther Strange, who was appointed in February to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Moore had counted on landslide support among the state's overwhelmingly white,
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