WASHINGTON — Republican Tommy Tuberville has won the Senate race in Alabama, reclaiming a seat in a ruby red state that the GOP lost three years ago in a scandal-driven fluke.
Tuberville defeated Democrats' most vulnerable incumbent, Sen. Doug Jones, moving Republicans a step closer to retaining their majority in the Senate, where they now have a 53-47 advantage.
Tuberville's career as football coach at Auburn University helped propel his candidacy in a football-crazed, heavily Republican state.
Jones, a former federal prosecutor, won a 2017 special election after then-Sen. Jeff Sessions was picked for President Donald Trump's Cabinet. He scored his unlikely victory after his GOP opponent, former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore, faced allegations of sexual assault and misconduct involving underage girls when he was younger. Moore denied the allegations.
