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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The View from Alabama

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Barack, Washington, Wickenden, News, Obama, Politics, Wnyc, Lizza, President

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Democrat Doug Jones was elected to the U.S. Senate in Alabama's special election, after his Republican opponent, Roy Moore, was heavily criticized for his racial politics and allegations that he sexually harassed five women when they were teenagers. Charles Bethea joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what Doug Jones' victory in the Alabama senate election says about Trumpism in the South.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors

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about politics. It's Thursday, December 14th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of

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The New Yorker. On Tuesday, in one of the most controversial Senate races in memory, a moderate Democrat,

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Doug Jones, beat the far-right candidate Roy Moore.

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It's been 25 years since a Democrat has been elected to the Senate in Alabama.

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Republicans normally win by more than half a million votes.

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Moore's campaign unraveled after five women came forward charging that he'd pursued them

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when they were teenagers, including one who says that he molested her when she was 14.

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Charles Bethay has been reporting on the race from Alabama. On election night, just before

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polls closed, he spoke with Lisa Brooks, the director of the Civil Rights Memorial Center.

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