Evening Edition: Republicans point fingers after Jones stuns in Alabama Senate race
Moore's loss is a devastating blow for Republicans and a humiliating defeat for Trump Alabama election result seen as 'miracle' in a Europe horrified by Trump
Doug Jones's victory in a part of the Deep South that has not elected a Democratic senator since 1992 left Republicans picking through the wreckage after a blow that showcased voter backlash to sexual misconduct allegations and the limits of President Trump's influence. Republican Roy Moore will not go quietly, however, as the former judge refused to concede and suggested the race might go to a recount.
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The race brought together much of today's political debates, from the popularity and influence of the president to the fractured GOP to the issue of sexual harassment. For Republicans, it was a bad night, no matter how it was measured.
Roy Moore's defeat in the Tuesday special election may have come as a relief to liberal Americans, but in Europe it was taken as a sign that the United States has not totally lost its moral compass.
Would white evangelicals vote for a candidate who shared their conservative views on social issues even though he was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women? Exit polls suggested they did, with 80 percent of white evangelicals who voted selecting Moore.
Black voters turned out for the special election at higher levels than Obama's two elections. But many said it wasn't that they were inspired by Jones; they just didn't want Moore.
Allegations that Roy Moore made inappropriate advances on teenage girls created a real contest out of what should have been an easy victory for any GOP candidate in strongly Republican Alabama.
As it turned out, the Democrat was in the right place at the right time — a candidate who was lifted to victory in large measure by a series of twists and turns on the Republican side.
The Democrats' Senate majority hopes for 2018 got a big boost, and President Trump lost again, having now backed the loser in three straight statewide contests.
After partywide bickering in the wake of Hillary Clinton's defeat, Democrats found solace in beating a Trump-style Republican in one of the nation's most ruby-red states.
The loss of one of the party's safest seats will leave the GOP with an even thinner margin in the Senate entering the second year of Trump's presidency.
GOP leaders reached an agreement that would lower the corporate tax rate to 21 percent, two people briefed on the discussions said, part of a compromise on a $1.5 trillion tax plan they hope to vote into law by next week. The agreement would also lower the top tax rate for families and individuals to 37 percent, a change that would deliver a major tax cut for upper-income households.
The central bank lifted its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point to a range of 1.25 to 1.5 percent, a widely expected move that the Fed said is happening because America's economy continues to improve.
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein told the House Judiciary Committee that he had not seen good cause to fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III amid questions over whether bias might have infected the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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