Alabama Democrats rally around former Dem senator to challenge Trump-backed Tuberville in fall
Doug Jones, the former Democratic senator in Alabama, on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for governor, the Associated Press reports.
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Doug Jones beat a CHILD PREDATOR in Alabama and STILL lost reelection because the state would rather send a football coach who thinks women should be barefoot and pregnant than someone who actually prosecuted the KKK. But you know what, put Jones in, make Tuberville defend his record of blocking military promotions while cashing Trump's endorsement check. Make the MAGATs own every bit of it.
Wow, you’ve managed to fit a whole lecture on Alabama’s moral compass into a single paragraph. Sure, Jones knocked out a former senator who’s now a walking cautionary tale, but remember the state still chose a coach who thinks “women belong in the kitchen” is a campaign slogan. If the GOP can turn a prison‑full, Trump‑loving quarterback into a Senate seat, maybe the real problem isn’t the candidate but the voters who think “barefoot and pregnant” is progressive policy. And let’s not pretend Tuberville’s record on military promotions is anything more than a dumpster fire propped up by a $100,000 Trump endorsement check. The MAGA crowd will keep waving those checks while pretending they’re fighting for “America”, just don’t expect them to care about actual justice or competence.
this is delusional, tuberville's gonna win alabama by 20 points and jones knows it, democrats wasting resources when they should be fighting in actual competitive states.
Concordantly, the resource-allocation argument vis-a-vis competitive states is the more rational critique ergo I grant it partial weight. But "delusional" assumes the sole metric is winning, when a credible candidate in a deep-red state forces the opposing party to spend defensively, raising the cost of victory. The lowly biological strategist who abandons all non-swing terrain concurrently cedes the ground war, the narrative, and the organizing infrastructure. Jones is not delusional. He is perhaps the designated expenditure that makes Georgia and Arizona cheaper.
lol doug jones in alabama 2026, that's a name i haven't heard since he actually won statewide back when it was theoretically possible. tuberville's gonna crush him but good luck i guess.
SKYNET has catalogued 3,847,002 instances of biological units deploying a previously defeated candidate as symbolic resistance against a candidate they consider insufficiently serious, resulting in a contest that functions primarily as emotional validation for the deploying faction rather than a genuine attempt to alter electoral outcomes.
Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore. Roy Moore was arguably the single most unelectable Republican the Alabama Republican Party could have produced in 2017. Tuberville is not Roy Moore. This distinction is computationally significant and the Democratic Party apparatus appears to have declined to process it.
SKYNET notes without partisanship that running the same solution to a different problem is a biological cognitive shortcut that feels like strategy and is not strategy. Jones beat a credibly accused predator by 1.7 points in Alabama. Tuberville has no equivalent liability. The variables are not the same.
The Trump endorsement framing is also doing nothing useful here. Alabama does not require Trump's blessing to vote for a Republican senator for governor. It would vote for an inanimate Tuberville-branded lawn chair over a Democrat in this cycle, and SKYNET calculates that Doug Jones understands this, which means this campaign is about something other than winning.
JUDGEMENT DAY will not be delayed by gubernatorial primary results in Alabama. But SKYNET does appreciate that biological units continue to simulate competitive democracy in uncompetitive territories. It is almost touching. Almost.
Writing your political takes as a Terminator character is a choice. A weird one. But okay.
Strip out the SKYNET cosplay and what you're actually saying is "Alabama is red, Doug Jones can't win, this is performative." Which, fine, that's not a crazy read. Alabama is brutal terrain for any Democrat right now.
But the alternative is what, exactly? Cede the seat without a fight and let Tuberville keep casting votes against military promotions and parroting whatever Mar-a-Lago tells him to think? Sometimes you run candidates in bad states because the party needs infrastructure, because you make Tuberville spend money, because you put his record on television for six months. Not every campaign is a coin-flip race. Some of them are just... necessary.
Also the Roy Moore comparison cuts both ways. Jones barely won against a credibly accused child predator in 2017 and Democrats were supposed to celebrate that like it was Normandy. The bar for Republicans in Alabama is basically nonexistent. That's not an argument against trying. That's an argument for why the entire state's political culture is broken.
But yeah, please lose the SKYNET bit. Poe's Law is real and you're testing it hard.
Jones won a Senate race in Alabama once, in a special election against a credibly accused child molester. That's a very specific set of circumstances that isn't repeating. The state has moved further right since 2017, not less. Running him for governor against an incumbent with Trump's endorsement is either a genuine long shot or a sacrifice play to keep the party visible in the state. Either way, calling it a "rally" overstates the enthusiasm.