And far from being shunned by the party, Mr. Jones’s top advisers have been open about which direction the shunning is going. “Stay home, this is our race and we’ll decide it here,” said Giles Perkins, a former Alabama Democratic Party chairman and one of Mr. Jones’s strategists. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. rallied Democrats in Birmingham for Mr. Jones in October — Mr. Jones led Mr. Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign in Alabama. He gushed about Mr. Jones’s financial dominance over Mr. Moore, who has struggled to rally Republican donors. Mr. Jones has aired nearly $2 million in commercials, compared with about $300,000 for Mr. Moore.

Source: New York Times November 14, 2017 19:39 UTC