{"id":27901,"date":"2020-03-11T20:47:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T01:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27901"},"modified":"2020-03-11T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T01:47:58","slug":"the-2020-senate-campaign-alabama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/11\/the-2020-senate-campaign-alabama-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2020 Senate Campaign: Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/06\/the-2020-senate-campaign-jockeying-for-position-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sessions v Tuberville<\/a> Republican primary runoff scheduled for the end of March, President Trump has made his selection known:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tommy Tuberville (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TTuberville?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TTuberville<\/a>) is running for the U.S. Senate from the Great State of Alabama. Tommy was a terrific head football coach at Auburn University. He is a REAL LEADER who will never let MAGA\/KAG, or our Country, down! Tommy will protect your Second Amendment&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1237557409943416834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And I expect Tuberville will win the primary. There are two questions then to be answered.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Will Alabama still be enamored with President Trump in November?<\/li>\n<li>Will the Sessions supporters be willing to support Tuberville despite the bitter loss of their candidate?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If either of the answers goes against Tuberville, incumbent Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) may find a way to victory. I suspect if Jones does win, it&#8217;ll be because the hardball tactics of Tuberville will offend the Sessions supporters to the extent that they&#8217;ll simply stay home, even in the face of team politics demands of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Sessions v Tuberville Republican primary runoff scheduled for the end of March, President Trump has made his selection known: Tommy Tuberville (@TTuberville) is running for the U.S. Senate from the Great State of Alabama. Tommy was a terrific head football coach at Auburn University. He is a REAL \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/11\/the-2020-senate-campaign-alabama-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27905,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27901\/revisions\/27905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}