Democratic Win in Alabama Senate Race Signals Big Trouble for Trump

On December 12 Democrat Doug Jones narrowly defeated Judge Roy Moore in a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) to serve as President Donald Trump’s attorney general. While on the surface Jones’s victory signals a turnover of just one seat in the narrowly divided upper chamber, it points to potentially huge – possibly fatal – consequences for Trump’s presidency.

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