Tag: DOUG JONES

Less than a decade ago, here in Alabama, Democrat Doug Jones won a senate seat against the scandal-ridden Republican Roy Moore, as many Republicans sat out the election on principle. However, it appears the Democrats have no such qualms in putting forth absolute radicals.

Former U.S. Senator and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Doug Jones took to social media late Tuesday, enraged over the U.S. Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) decision to allow Alabama to use its 2023 congressional map and calling it a return to the Confederacy.

Alabama Democratic Party chairman Randy Kelley says he anticipates lawsuits challenging the eligibility of gubernatorial candidate U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and lieutenant governor candidate John Wahl for their respective offices, though it will not come from the state party.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), the Republican nominee for Alabama’s next governor, recently shot down further speculation that his position in the race was in jeopardy ahead of almost certain challenges to his residency.

It's no secret that Social Security is going bankrupt. We've all known it for years. But politicians like Doug Jones didn't care to fix it. They just kept kicking the can down the road.

Former U.S. Senator and current gubernatorial candidate Doug Jones fears the Voting Rights Act “won’t survive” the U.S. Supreme Court’s next term.

Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones said Friday that a lawsuit filed against his opponent in the gubernatorial race, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), is doomed to fail.

Former U.S. Senator and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Doug Jones is attacking his opponent, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), for repeatedly going after the spread and rising influence of radical Islam across the United States in a series of social media posts.

Alabama Public Library Service chairman and lieutenant governor candidate John Wahl said gubernatorial candidate Doug Jones is “out of touch with reality” after Jones’ latest episode of “Doug Unplugged.”

Ahead of state elections, the Alabama Republican Party steering committee voted to dismiss residency-related complaints filed against U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and former Alabama Republican Party Chair John Wahl.

Friday afternoon, Doug Jones was interviewed by University of Alabama law professor Joyce Vance on her Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance Substack page. In the brief interview, he attacked state lawmakers and promoted a wild conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump would "steal" elections while insisting that he can win the Alabama governor race against U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn).

Jones acknowledged having "real disagreements" on education policy and specifically cited the school choice legislation.

Back in September, House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels (D-Huntsville) predicted Republican state lawmakers' decision to allow a tax exemption on overtime earnings to lapse in 2025 would come back as a campaign issue.

Alabama Republican Party chairman John Wahl weighed in on former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones' (D-Mountain Brook) entrance into the 2026 governor's race in a statement to 1819 News on Monday.

According to a report that aired on this week's broadcast of Alabama Political Reporter's "The V," former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) will file paperwork to run for governor on the Democratic ticket for the 2026 election.

According to a recent poll, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is the heavy favorite in a potential matchup against Democrat and former legislator Doug Jones in the upcoming 2026 governor's race.

Although former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) pulled off one of the biggest political upsets in Alabama history against Roy Moore in 2017, his effort to hold on to his U.S. Senate seat against Tommy Tuberville did not go as well.

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) will be in Birmingham this Saturday for a town hall event hosted by the Jefferson County Democratic Party and the liberal political action committee, Blueprint Alabama.

In a post on Sunday evening, lifelong democrat, Kamala Harris supporter, David Silverstein made a last-ditch plea to woo Republican voters in his bid to unseat the most conservative member of the Mountain Brook City Council.

Campaign finance reports show that since then, Silverstein has donated to at least four democrats, including a 2024 contribution to Kamala Harris.

Could a Tuberville-Jones rematch be in the works?

A large crowd descended on Snow Hinton Park in Tuscaloosa on Thursday as part of the “Tide Against Trump” rally to protest President Donald Trump’s commencement speech at the University of Alabama just a few miles away.

Alabama Republican Party chairman John Wahl slammed the planned protest at President Donald Trump’s scheduled commencement address at the University of Alabama on Thursday.

Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) may get a shot at a position that has eluded him throughout the Biden administration should Vice President Kamala Harris emerge victorious in November.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) gave a humorous response on Wednesday when asked about the hypothetical, and extremely unlikely, possibility of his vanquished Senate opponent Doug Jones being declared as a running mate for the presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

Friday on MSNBC, former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) did not say what he thought embattled President Joe Biden should do regarding his role as the Democratic Party's standard-bearer.

On Thursday, Jones took to his Twitter account to emphasize there is no Republican plot to keep Biden off the Alabama ballot.