Good for Alabama.
In a stunning upset, voters there rejected the candidacy of Republican Roy Moore and elected their first Democrat to the U.S. Senate in more than a quarter century.
Democrat Doug Jones won the special election to fill the seat once held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Moore, who was dogged by accusations from a slew of women that he had made inappropriate sexual overtures to them when they were teens and he was a young prosecutor in his 30s, refused to concede.
More arrived at the polls in his usual fashion, atop his horse Sassy.
The loss is a major setback for President Trump and GOP strategist Steve Bannon, who had pushed Moore's candidacy as crucial to maintaining the GOP's slim majority in the Senate, despite the allegations against Moore.
Trump famously quipped that Moore had "totally denied" the allegations.
It also shows the deep fracture that is developing in the Republican party.
Trump congratulated Jones on his win in a late-night Tweet from the White House.
Of course, this morning, he was back on Twitter with a new plot line.
"The reason I originally endorsed Luther Strange (and his numbers went up mightily), is that I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election. I was right! Roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him!"
There you have it.
Trump was right. Again.
I guess all those voters in Alabama were wrong.
You can read the latest on the Alabama election here.
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