“I believe we are on the road to having a competitive two-party state,” Jones said at Wednesday’s news conference. Jones had been talking like that for months, though rarely before a national audience, and not in stump speeches. “I think it helps because so many of the divisions in this country started in the South,” Jones told the Economist in November. Doug Jones says he favors corporate tax cuts but not th GOP tax bill. To Jones, the Democrats, locked out of power, could run in 2018 as the party of reform.

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2017 21:55 UTC