4 Takeaways From Doug Jones’s Alabama Victory<br />“They colluded with the Democrats to undermine a pro-Trump candidate like Judge Moore just like they are going to try to do<br />that in 2018 to myself and other pro-Trump candidates,” said Corey Stewart, who is challenging Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia and attended Mr. Moore’s election night party.<br />“Not only did Steve Bannon cost us a critical Senate seat in one of the most Republican states in the country,<br />but he also dragged the president of the United States into his fiasco,” said Steven Law, who runs a “super PAC” controlled by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader.<br />Immediately after Mr. Jones’s victory, establishment-aligned Republicans in Washington were assailing Mr. Moore<br />and Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, as having handed a Senate seat in the reddest of red states to the Democrats.<br />In Jefferson County, home to Birmingham and its whiter suburbs, turnout exceeded the 2014 governor’s race by about 30 percent,<br />and Mr. Jones nearly matched Hillary Clinton’s vote total there.<br />If Republican candidates facing well-off voters next year do not find a way to separate<br />themselves from the president, they will face a punishing midterm election next year.
