Moore Wins Alabama GOP Senate Primary
- Roy Moore campaigned against Senate Majority Leader McConnell
- Ten commandments candidate faces Democrat in December election
Trump, GOP Establishment Suffer Defeat in Alabama Vote
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Alabama’s GOP voters backed Roy Moore, a U.S. Senate candidate who campaigned against the chamber’s Republican leader and brandished a firearm at a rally to show his support for gun rights -- even after President Donald Trump urged voters to elect Moore’s opponent.
Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, won 54.6 percent of the vote Tuesday in a Republican primary runoff election compared to 45.4 percent for incumbent Senator Luther Strange, according to the Associated Press. Moore will face Democrat Doug Jones, a former U.S. attorney, in a Dec. 12 special election to fill the seat previously held by Senator Jeff Sessions, who became Trump’s attorney general.