The election to replace Jeff Sessions in the Senate has turned into a bitter fight between Democrats,establishment Republicans and the party’s populist wingOn Tuesday, Alabamans will go to the polls to settle which is the lesser evil, and an accused child molester or a Democrat. In recent polls,the accused child molester is favored.
The surprise is that a Democrat even has a chance in a deep red state that Donald Trump won by a landslide in the 2016 presidential race. The concept that a Republican might be vulnerable is nearly as unusual as the white-flecked fields of rural Alabama in December, where snow mixed with leftover cotton bolls to produce an Arctic landscape in the Bible Belt.
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Source: guardian.co.uk