Record Democratic turnout not enough for Jones in Alabama
November 5, 2020 GMTMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama U.S. Sen. Doug Jones received more than 200,000 more votes this year than he did when he won the seat three years ago...
GOP’s Tuberville defeats US Sen. Jones, flips Alabama seat
November 4, 2020 GMTMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday recaptured a U.S...
Jones fights for survival in Alabama as Tuberville coasts
October 27, 2020 GMTTROY, Ala. (AP) — Standing by a blue pickup truck at a rally near the birthplace of the late civil rights icon John Lewis, Alabama Sen...
Alabama Senate race shapes up to be a contentious slugfest
July 16, 2020 GMTMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — With control of the U.S. Senate on the line, Alabama’s race is shaping up to be a contentious showdown between a college football coach backed by President Donald Trump and the body’s most endangered Democrat, who will need to motivate his base and court moderate voters to win political survival...
Tuberville defeats Sessions, wins Alabama Senate GOP primary
July 15, 2020 GMTMOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions lost the Republican nomination for his old Senate seat in Alabama to former college football coach Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday, likely ending a long political career with a bitter defeat egged on by President Donald Trump...
Sessions vies for Senate comeback in race shadowed by Trump
July 11, 2020 GMTMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Seeking a political comeback, former U.S. Attorney General MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Jeff Sessions pushed back at President Donald Trump’s criticism Saturday, telling Trump that he was “damn fortunate” Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation...Sessions, running for Senate, rejects Trump’s criticism
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Congressional primaries: Sessions in Alabama Senate runoff
March 4, 2020 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump used a scolding tweet Wednesday to undermine his former attorney general's attempt for a political comeback, hours after Jeff Sessions was forced into a Republican primary runoff for his old Senate seat in Alabama...
Trump attacks Sessions ahead of primary runoff for US Senate
March 3, 2020 GMTMOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Jeff Sessions, making new strides to regain his former Senate seat, faced renewed criticism from Donald Trump that could be his biggest hurdle after the president appeared to mock his former attorney general for being forced into a primary runoff...
Famed coach Tuberville runs for Senate seat as an outsider
February 24, 2020 GMTIRONDALE, Ala. (AP) — As former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville made his way through the Irondale Cafe on Monday, diners stood up from plates of fried green tomatoes to ask for selfies or to greet him with a hearty Auburn “War Eagle” or a teasing “Roll Tide...