Alabama Republicans are set for what will be a fierce runoff in September after no candidate cleared 50% in the state’s US Senate primary. The controversial former state supreme court chief justice Roy Moore received 39.5% of the vote, ahead of appointed incumbent Luther Strange’s 32.2% on Tuesday night. Representative Mo Brooks, a member of the hard-right Freedom Caucus, finished third with 19.7% and will not make the 26 September runoff. Both Strange and Moore had cited Trump’s election as a sign of divine intervention in human affairs. In 2003, Moore was removed from office after violating a federal court’s order to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from grounds of the Alabama supreme court.

Source: The Guardian August 16, 2017 02:51 UTC