{"id":135602,"date":"2017-12-28T14:17:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135602"},"modified":"2017-12-28T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T21:04:21","slug":"alabama-certifies-doug-jones-election-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135602","title":{"rendered":"Alabama certifies Doug Jones election, U.S. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<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=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jones-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jones-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jones-311x175.jpg 311w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jones.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) \u2014 Alabama election officials have officially declared Democrat Doug Jones the winner of a special Senate election held earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore by about 22,000 votes on Dec. 12 and became the first Democratic Senate victory in a quarter-century in Alabama. Moore was dogged by accusations of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls that occurred decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>He refused to concede the race and filed a last-ditch lawsuit Wednesday, saying there were voting irregularities that needed to be investigated. A judge rejected his claims. Alabama officials also said they found no evidence of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) \u2014 Alabama election officials have officially declared Democrat Doug Jones the winner of a special Senate election held earlier this month. Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore by about 22,000 votes on Dec. 12 and became the first Democratic Senate victory in a quarter-century in Alabama. Moore was [&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-135602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135610,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135602\/revisions\/135610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}