That's right and proper.

It took a perfect storm of unrepentant pedophilia to bring down his opponent. One assumes he won’t be so lucky next time. He should do what he can while he can.

That's how crazy many (not all obviously) Alabama voters are.

What kind of asinine article is this? That seat is lost regardless of how he votes.

I hope he stays strong with the Dems b/c he'll lose by 10 points in 2020. It took a special election where Dems were on fire and Roy Moore for him to barely squeak out a win.

maybe attorney general ?

Make speeches on the Senate floor of the "let my people go!" style. Impassioned pleas for the workers in Alabama, and how Trump should hold the good people of Alabama hostage in this evil fashion, and for what? A wall that won't even affect Alabama?

Then he should visit kitchens that will inevitably spring up to feed the paycheck-to-paycheck poor, get his picture in the papers showing he cares. Fly commercial, fly coach, let the media know when and why. He can save his Senate seat, but not just by voting his conscience in DC. Get down there, get your hands dirty. Fly coach, fly often, make sure the WHOLE STATE knows you care, and have THEIR plight in mind. Be our Bill McKay to their Crocker Jarmon. If Jones gets out in front of this, he can win it, but if definitely won't be a freebie, and if he wins re-election, his margin of victory won't be appreciably higher than last time. The Republicans have plenty of assholes who are not blatant pedophiles, and next time, they'll nominate one..

The Repuke party is gonna be ripped apart at the seams during the primaries.

in the last paragraph of the clip:

Alabama has one of the largest groups of federal workers in the country, and the economic pain of those who are out of work because of the shutdown is rippling through local businesses across the state.


If that's the case then Jones fighting for those workers wouldn't be a negative but a plus. His position for 2020 may well be highly risky in normal times but these ain't normal times. His appeal can be directly to his constituents, the ones being hurt, the ancillary businesses being damaged by the Trumpster's Shutdown.

I've read that though the count on Federal workers effected is 800,000, the ripple effects are hitting over 4+ million people across the country. These are the people that Doug Jones or any other Democratic candidate in a red state can appeal to as the 2020 race heats up. Because those lost profits will not be paid back and the economic damage will linger for a long time at the local, state and national level.

When people are hit in the wallet? They tend not to forget.

He was quite open about the liberal positions he supported when he ran against Moore.