Fmr. Sen. Jeff Sessions and onetime Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville were neck and neck in the Republican primary race for the Senate on Tuesday night and will face off in a runoff election later this month, NBCNews projects.
They are trailed by three-term GOP Rep. Bradley Byrne, who had 27.3 percent of the vote, while 6.8 percent of voters had cast ballots for Roy Moore, the 2018 Republican candidate, who lost amid allegations that he'd had improper sexual contact with young girls. Moore won't make the runoff, NBC News projects.The GOP race heads to a runoff since none of the candidates was over 50 percent in the crowded primary.
The winner will go pp against Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, who won the seat in a 2017 special election and is considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the Senate.Sessions, once the state's popular senior senator, left the job to become President Donald Trump's attorney general. But the president soured on Sessions when he recused himself from the Russia investigation, and the president ousted him the day after the midterm elections in November.
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