Tag Archives: Doug Jones

Doug Jones To Roy Moore: You Need To Move On

The Birmingham News reports: Senator-elect Doug Jones has a message for his Republican challenger Roy Moore: It’s time to move on. Speaking on the Today Show two days after his upset win, Jones said he is “confident” he won Tuesday night’s election, despite Moore’s refusal to concede until provisional and military votes are counted. “I understand the frustration a little …

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Roy Moore Continues To Refuse To Concede Because Evil Sodomy Is Sweeping Across America [VIDEO]

The Washington Post reports: A day after losing the Senate race in Alabama to Democrat Doug Jones, Roy Moore has issued a new statement refusing to concede the election until completion of the final count. But it wasn’t your typical post-election statement. It was a four-minute fire-and-brimstone video about abortion, same-sex marriage, school prayer, sodomy and “the right of a …

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New York Daily News: Screw You, Roy Moore

From the New York Daily News: Jones’ narrow win means the Republican majority over Democrats in the Senate drops to a slim 51 to 49. It will also further galvanize the Democratic Party as it looks to build on sentiment against President Trump to mount a challenge next year to the Republican control of Congress. The bitter political battle centered …

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Roy Moore Refuses To Concede: We Know God Is In Control And The Votes Are Still Coming In [VIDEO]

CNN reports: Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) refused to concede the special election Tuesday night after multiple media outlets called the race in favor of his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones. “At this point, we do not have a final decision on the outcome tonight,” Moore’s campaign chairman Bill Armistead told supporters. “When the vote is this close, it is …

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Trump: Doug Jones Won On The Write-In Votes

The Hill reports: President Trump congratulated Democrat Doug Jones for winning the Alabama Senate race Tuesday night. Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in a close election for the open seat, becoming the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama since 1992. The result was a major blow for Trump, who backed Moore despite a series of allegations that …

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DOUG JONES WINS ALABAMA SENATE RACE!!!

The New York Times reports: Doug Jones, a Democratic former prosecutor who mounted a seemingly quixotic Senate campaign in the face of Republican dominance here, defeated his scandal-scarred opponent, Roy S. Moore, after a brutal campaign marked by accusations of sexual abuse and child molestation against the Republican, according to The Associated Press. The upset delivered an unimagined victory for …

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LIVE THREAD: Alabama Senate Election Results

The New York Times reports: The last polls close at 8 p.m. Eastern. Strong support for Roy S. Moore, the Republican, is expected in rural, mostly white parts of the state and in its northern half. The Democrat, Doug Jones, aims to create a lead in the urban counties that include Birmingham and Montgomery, and across a band of largely …

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ALABAMA: High Voter Turnout Seen In Senate Race

The Washington Post reports: The campaign chairman for Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones sounded notes of cautious optimism Tuesday afternoon as Alabama voters continued to cast ballots in a pivotal special election here. Giles Perkins said he had observed signs of high voter turnout in Jefferson and Montgomery counties — populous Democratic strongholds where Jones is trying to run up …

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ALABAMA: Obama Records Robocall For Doug Jones

CNN reports: Former President Barack Obama is adding his voice to the Alabama Senate race, imploring voters to go to the polls Tuesday to reject the candidacy of Roy Moore as part of an aggressive effort by Democrats to try and counter President Donald Trump’s full-throated endorsement of the controversial Republican candidate. “This one’s serious,” Obama says in the call. …

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ALABAMA: Roy Moore +5 In Final Poll

The Hill reports: Embattled Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is now leading his Democratic rival, Doug Jones, by 4 points, according to a new survey. A Gravis Marketing poll finds Moore has 49 percent support in the Alabama Senate race, while 45 percent support back Jones. Another 6 percent of respondents in the poll are undecided. Of those who …

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ALABAMA: NRA Secretly Funds Anti-Doug Jones Efforts

Media Matters reports: The National Rifle Association has discreetly spent almost $55,000 against Democratic candidate Doug Jones in the Alabama Senate special election, effectively supporting reported child molester and Republican candidate Roy Moore. Public Integrity’s Ashley Balcerzak reported that the NRA spent a total of $54,772.03 in December 2017 on postcards opposing Jones, according to Federal Election Commission filings. But …

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Roy Moore Campaign Demands Stop To “Mall” Ad

The Birmingham News reports: Roy Moore’s campaign calls an ad run by a political action committee opposing him “patently false” and issued cease and desist letters demanding that TV stations stop running it. The PAC, called Highway 31, was formed to support the candidacy of Moore’s opponent, Doug Jones. The ad says, “Moore was actually banned from the Gadsden Mall …

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POLL: Alabama Senate Race In Virtual Dead Heat

The Washington Post reports: Alabama’s closely watched U.S. Senate race is a neck-and-neck contest as voter concerns about personal moral conduct weigh on the candidacy of Republican Roy Moore, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll. With less than two weeks to go, support for Democrat Doug Jones stands at 50 percent vs. Moore’s 47 percent support among likely …

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Feds Open Hatch Act Case Against Kellyanne Conway

The Hill reports: The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is opening a case file to address allegations that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway violated federal law when she made comments about GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore’s Democratic challenger. Walter Shaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel last week …

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New Doug Jones Ad Reminds Us That Roy Moore Thinks Preschool Is “Nazi-Style Indoctrination” [VIDEO]

Here’s what today’s Doug Jones ad is about: Many states and localities are looking to expand the availability of preschool, but Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore apparently believed this push was misguided and could result in the Nazi-style indoctrination of America’s children. In 2007, Moore wrote an op-ed on the conservative site WorldNetDaily saying preschool was “detrimental to children …

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White House: Trump Won’t Campaign For Roy Moore

Per the Associated Press, the White House today announced that Trump will not do as he did for Sen. Luther Strange and campaign in person for Roy Moore. This comes despite Trump’s multiple denouncements of Democrat Doug Jones as being everything but an open communist. As of today, Real Clear Politics shows Jones with a very slim lead in their …

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Trump Doubles Down: Doug Jones Would Be A Disaster

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his support for embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, taking to Twitter to disparage Moore’s opponent, Democrat Doug Jones. Against the wishes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other top Republicans, the president decided last week to take Moore’s side amid mounting allegations of sexual …

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Powerful Doug Jones Ad Depicts Roy Moore’s Accusers: Will We Make Their Abuser A US Senator? [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: Doug Jones‘ Senate campaign has released a new ad with a very simple, yet remarkably strong and direct statement about Roy Moore and his alleged sexual abuse against minors. The new ad lists all the women who have come forward in the last few weeks with claims of Moore’s misconduct towards them when they were young girls. The …

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Doug Jones Ad Uses GOP Quotes Against Roy Moore

The Washington Post reports: The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama has begun to use Republicans’ words against them. The latest ad by Doug Jones plays back criticism of Republican nominee Roy Moore that Ivanka Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) gave in the aftermath of allegations that Moore made unwanted advances on young …

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ALABAMA: Police Chief Suspended After “Sarcastic” Post Claiming He Was Molested By Democrat Doug Jones

The Birmingham News reports: A small-town Alabama police chief has been suspended after making “sarcastic” statements about sexual abuse on Facebook. Killen police Chief Bryan Hammond wrote on Facebook that “silence is consent” and made what he called a joke about being sexually assaulted by U.S. Senate candidate Democrat Doug Jones. “On another note, Doug Jones fondled me on a …

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