Welcome to the ticket. I'm Isaac Dauver. The past few weeks watching the coronavirus

spike all over the country. I think we've all been left with a sense of what the hell is going on

how could there be a new peak in the first wave of infections before we even got to a

second wave a lot of people look at these numbers and wonder, why did the rest of the country learn from the initial

outbreaks in New York, New Jersey, Washington State?

So with the country's attention focused on the pandemic's new front in the South, this seemed like the moment to talk with Doug Jones.

He's a senator from Alabama, but he's also a unique person to talk to in this moment of renewed thinking about race and legacy in America.

In 1997, Jones prosecuted two of the clansmen responsible for the Birmingham Church bombing.

The 1963 attack killed four young girls and was a galvanizing moment for the country.

It was key to the passage of the Civil Rights Act only a few months later.

Now here in 2020, deaths have again shocked the country and awoke in a new wave of activism.

When I connected with Jones, he was at home in Birmingham.

With the Republican primary runoff next week, he's about to learn if he'll face Jeff Sessions, or Tommy

Tubberville, in the general election.

Jones is the rare Democratic senator from the deep south.

He's widely seen as the most vulnerable Democrat up in November and he knows it.

But he's fighting and he thinks he can win.

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