Alabama Voters Reject Trump’s Candidate, Spurning President
- Uncompromising conservative Roy Moore defeats Trump’s pick
- Moore will face Democrat Doug Jones in December election
Trump's Senate Candidate Rejected in Alabama Vote
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President Donald Trump was rebuffed by the same Alabama voters who turned out en masse for him in November when they rejected his choice for the U.S. Senate in favor of an unabashed religious conservative who ran against the Washington establishment.
Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was removed from office for his display of a Ten Commandments statue, on Tuesday defeated incumbent Senator Luther Strange, capturing almost 55 percent of the vote.