Doug Jones Will Lose in 2020

JD Fri, 12/15/2017 - 10:01

In an interview with National Public Radio, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) reacted to Tuesday night’s special election that resulted in Alabama voters sending a Democrat to the U.S. Senate for the first time since Sen. Richard Shelby in 1992.

Sen.-elect Doug Jones (D-AL) defeated former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore by a narrow 1.5 percent margin. However, Byrne noted all the unusual circumstances surrounding the campaign, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) involvement in the primary contest. He went on to predict Jones could not pull off another statewide election win when that seat is up again in 2020.

“This was as weird an election as I have ever seen,” Byrne said to NPR’s Rachel Martin. “It started back in the winter when Jeff Sessions left that Senate seat and our now-disgraced former governor, Robert Bentley, appointed the attorney general that was supposed to be investigating him to take that seat. And then we had Mitch McConnell weigh heavily into the race, forcing good candidates out and then attacking candidates during the primary. And that ended up with a very weak candidate and the former attorney general against Roy Moore, and Roy Moore won the primary.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/12/14/al-gop-rep-byrne-doug-jones-wi...

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