Alabama Senate primary: Moore and Strange head to Republican run-off
Source: The Guardian
Alabama Republicans are set for what will be a fierce runoff in September after no candidate cleared 50% in the states US Senate primary.
The controversial former state supreme court chief justice Roy Moore received over 40% of the vote, well ahead of appointed incumbent Luther Strange on Tuesday night. Representative Mo Brooks, a member of the hard-right Freedom Caucus, finished third and will not make the 26 September runoff. The special election was prompted by the confirmation of former senator Jeff Sessions as attorney general in February.
The race had become a fierce contest about which candidate most embraced Donald Trump. Both Strange and Moore had cited Trumps election as a sign of divine intervention in human affairs. President Trump is the greatest thing that has happened to this country, Strange said this summer. I consider it a biblical miracle that hes there.
In May, Moore proclaimed: God puts people in positions in positions he wants. I believe he sent Donald Trump in there to do what Donald Trump can do.
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Ben Jacobs in Washington
Wednesday 16 August 2017 03.51 BST
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/alabama-senate-primary-moore-and-strange-head-to-republican-run-off
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)It is, of course, an understatement.
sandensea
(21,639 posts)alp227
(32,032 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)sandensea
(21,639 posts)The thought occurred to me, wryly, that while we may never know how God votes (if at all), we can now safely say how the delusional are most likely to vote.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)It's voter fraud
sandensea
(21,639 posts)And neither, I suppose, is His voter registration.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)That's not God, that's Satan.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)What can be more strange?
rurallib
(62,423 posts)I wish him good luck and a large turnout. Who knows, maybe even Alabama is tired of the crazy.