Jones, in many ways, is about as good a candidate as Democrats could get in Alabama right now. They’re wondering whether they might have a shot at the Senate seat. The Jones campaign said its fundraising has surged since Moore won Tuesday night. On Tuesday, he won the Republican Party’s nomination for a special election in December to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, who left to become attorney general. Martin Luther King Jr. called it “one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity.”Civil rights are a central part of Jones’ campaign.

Source: Huffington Post September 27, 2017 21:01 UTC