On Tuesday night, Dec. 12, everybody had been watching the Alabama race for U.S. Senate with bated breath after what turned out to be a surprisingly contentious race in a normally solid red state. And after Democratic candidate Doug Jones pulled out a win, which cuts into Republicans' slim majority in the Senate, the question of whether President Donald Trump would respond angrily came into play. But it turns out Donald Trump’s response to the Alabama Senate race was unusually tame.
After Jones won by less than two percentage points, Trump congratulated the Democrat on Tuesday night. The next morning, he then said the deck was "stacked" against Roy Moore.
Outside of, you know, those actually living in Alabama, the president was one of the people who probably had the most at stake. He actively supported Moore in the race for the Senate, both publicly endorsing him via Twitter and recording robo-calls, sent to Alabama voters in the days before the election, urging Alabamans to get out the vote for Moore. More importantly from a policy perspective, Trump needed Moore in the Senate — with a slim, slim majority for Republicans, they couldn’t afford to lose the Alabama seat currently held by the GOP. Republicans currently hold only a two-seat margin in the Senate (counting the two Independents who caucus with Democrats) — the loss of the Alabama seat would make it that much harder for Republicans to pass their legislation.
More to come.
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