{"id":134764,"date":"2017-12-13T07:41:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=134764"},"modified":"2017-12-13T07:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:42:51","slug":"jones-defeats-moore-ala-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=134764","title":{"rendered":"Jones defeats Moore Ala. senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. &#8211; Democrat Doug Jones has won the special election over Roy Moore, to fill a Senate seat in Alabama, according to exit polls and returns &#8211; a shocking upset in a solidly Republican state, in which massive turnout among African-American voters helped defeat a candidate enthusiastically backed by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press called the race at 10:23 p.m. Eastern time.<\/p>\n<p>Jones becomes the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Alabama since 1992. The Senate seat came open when Trump chose former Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to become attorney general earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134765\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jones-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jones-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jones-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jones-311x175.jpg 311w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jones.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. &#8211; Democrat Doug Jones has won the special election over Roy Moore, to fill a Senate seat in Alabama, according to exit polls and returns &#8211; a shocking upset in a solidly Republican state, in which massive turnout among African-American voters helped defeat a candidate enthusiastically backed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134768,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134764\/revisions\/134768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}