Jones successes upset victory in AL, Moore refuses to concede
- Dec 13, 2017
- 3 min read
The Democratic Party has just passed an enormous successful checkpoint in their party's history as their Democratic nominee for Alabama's Senate seat declares victory over his Republican opponent Roy Moore who has recently been accused by up to nine women of sexual assault, abuse, harassment and other misconduct allegations.
Doug Jones will now represent the state of Alabama as the first Democrat to do so for the past 25 years after an extremely tight election night that was called a nail-biter by Americans across the country and citizens across the world. The political consequences of this election will show it's effect in the short time coming.
Although Republicans still have a lead in the US Senate with 51 seats to 49 including the new counts including Doug Jones', their attempt to pass any legislation will be almost, if not guaranteed, impossible to be a success. Starting with the tax bill and reformations; which Dems and a few Republicans likely won't vote for.
The election was extremely tense and tough throughout the entire night, although primary counts instantly suggested that Doug Jones was unlikely to lose major population hubs in Alabama's three biggest cities; Mobile, Montgomery and Birmingham as Jones took a quick lead of around 60% state-wide.
It later shrunk ridiculously quickly as Alabama's country counties began counting votes in favor for Roy Moore. In fact, Moore took the spotlight as he was in the lead of anywhere between four and eight percent higher than Jones for most of the night.
Amid reports by the New York Times that predicted Jones would win, even if the Democrats base and many viewers at home simply couldn't see it possible, Jones did eventually overcome the trouble brought as country counties quickly began counting. Major cities gave a small leverage to Jones late at night at around 10-10:30 P.M. EST that ended with an almost instantaneous victory for Jones.
Doug votes percentiles ended up quickly flipping on Moore even after Roy's side of the aisle had already began chanting in support of then-leading Republican support. After a tie was drawn of 49.2% for both Roy Moore and Doug Jones; the Dem Jones quickly took the spotlight with a 1% lead when the NYT projected a Jones victory.
Responses from across America came with huge congratulations. The Democratic Party tweeted it's congratulations to Alabama Democrat voters as well as Sen.-elect Doug Jones. Hillary Clinton expressed her congratulations as well, stating that if Democrats can win in Alabama - one of the reddest states of America - then they can and will compete to win elsewhere across the United States. Similar words came from a GOP member who stated if Jones won Alabama, Dems could win anywhere.
Meanwhile Roy Moore has made it quite clear he is unwilling to concede tonight to Doug Jones; hinting that in Alabama a forced recount and automatic recount of any election result between 0.5% of a victory and loser of the election. Moore said that it may take some time, but that the election isn't over.
All the while he requests the Sec. of State to review the election; CNN made their way extremely quick to the Sec. of State of Alabama's home and asked him questions that cleared the issue right up temporarily. John Merrill said that the people of Alabama have spoken and made their voices loud and clear; also doubted military ballot counts or an automatic recount would ever change the impact of the election.
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