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TexasTowelie

(115,925 posts)
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 03:03 PM Apr 2019

Ex-Auburn football coach Tuberville to run for Alabama Senate

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville is joining the Republican race to win back the Senate seat from Democrat Doug Jones in 2020.

Tuberville is set to announce his candidacy Saturday, according to a person familiar with Tuberville's decision. This person wasn't authorized to publicly discuss Tuberville's plans and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Republicans are trying to recapture the seat that was held by Republican Jeff Sessions, who was President Donald Trump's first attorney general.

Jones, a former U.S. attorney, defeated ex-state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in a special election in 2017 after the Republican candidate was accused of sexual misconduct with teenagers. Moore denied the allegations.

Read more: https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/article_3af37fd3-e37a-5fa4-991f-b4442c9b7972.html

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Ex-Auburn football coach Tuberville to run for Alabama Senate (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2019 OP
Just another idiot repug we don't need. Ferrets are Cool Apr 2019 #1
Tide fans won't support him. Marcuse Apr 2019 #2

Ferrets are Cool

(21,640 posts)
1. Just another idiot repug we don't need.
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 03:08 PM
Apr 2019

There isn't ONE repug in all of Alabama with a lick of sense.

Unfortunately, Sen. Jones is a lame duck. He has NO chance of winning re-election.

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