As Democrats add Senate seat, GOP left to cast blame over Alabama failure
As Democrats add Senate seat, GOP left to cast blame over Alabama failure
(Alice Li, Jordan Frasier, Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
By Sean Sullivan, Elise Viebeck, David Weigel and Michael Scherer
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —Stunned Republicans began casting blame Wednesday over their failure to hold a Senate seat in the Deep South, where Alabama Democrat Doug Jones stitched together just enough support to win amid voter backlash to accusations of s*xual misconduct against his firebrand GOP rival.
Even as Republican Roy Moore — down by more than 20,000 votes in Tuesday’s special election — refused to concede the race, members of the GOP began pointing fingers at one another for his defeat after being steamrolled in Virginia’s elections last month.
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(Alice Li, Jordan Frasier, Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
By Sean Sullivan, Elise Viebeck, David Weigel and Michael Scherer
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —Stunned Republicans began casting blame Wednesday over their failure to hold a Senate seat in the Deep South, where Alabama Democrat Doug Jones stitched together just enough support to win amid voter backlash to accusations of s*xual misconduct against his firebrand GOP rival.
Even as Republican Roy Moore — down by more than 20,000 votes in Tuesday’s special election — refused to concede the race, members of the GOP began pointing fingers at one another for his defeat after being steamrolled in Virginia’s elections last month.
READ MORE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/a...
